Patent ID: 7028594

Claim:
A device for moving a pair of coils of a highly-biasable split ring lock from an unbiased clamping mode into a biased unclamped mode and further for releasing said pair of coils from said biased unclamped mode into said unbiased clamped mode, said pair of coils including a top and bottom coil defining a parting groove therebetween and also defining a locking chamber, the ring lock being for gripping a flexible material with a gripable means positioned in said locking chamber, said device comprising support means for holding said split ring lock wherein one of the coils of said pair of coils is positioned within said support means, means for prying apart said pair of coils at said parting groove from said unbiased mode into said biased unclamped mode and for releasing said pair of coils from said biased unclamped mode into said unbiased clamped mode, means for guiding said means for prying and for releasing to and from said pair of coils, said means for guiding being associated with said support means, and means for holding down said at least one means for prying and releasing said support means for holding.