Patent ID: 7210317

Claim:
A controllably extendible restraint interconnection device for use by a detainer for securing one or more appendages of a human detainee comprising: a. a housing means graspable by said detainer, and b. a tethering means connective at a first end with a rotatable tether winding retracting means, with c. said rotatable tether winding retracting means also further connective with a ratcheting means having a ratchet locking means which acts cooperatively with said ratcheting means, and d. said tethering means connective at a second end with a first human appendage restraint means at a first end of said housing means, and e. a second human appendage restraint means connective with a second end of said housing means, and f. a manually actuable means for controllably disengaging said ratchet locking means from said ratcheting means to permit said tethering means to be manually extracted, whereby, whenever said ratchet locking means is controllably disengaged from said ratcheting means by said manually actuable means, said tethering means may be manually urged to extract from said rotatable tether winding retracting means, with said extraction thus urging said connective tether winding retracting means into a higher state of retraction urging tension, and whereby whenever said ratchet locking means is not controllably disengaged by said manually actuable means, said tethering means will be urged by said winding retracting means to forcibly retract, and will be forcibly stopped from being extracted by said ratcheting means, thereby unidirectionally urging said connective first human appendage restraint means and said connective second human appendage restraint means toward one another in ratcheted increments, and forcibly stopping said tethering means from being extracted from said tether winding retracting means whenever there is a resisting force.