Patent ID: 8308210

Claim:
A drum grab for grabbing and lifting drums comprising in combination, a lifting point having at least three (3) lifting arms radiating therefrom, the arms each having drum rim engaging means, wherein one of the at least three (3) lifting arms is an articulated arm adapted to articulate between a rim engaging position and a non-rim engaging position, the articulated arm biased by a biasing means to be retained in the rim engaging position, the lifting arms other than the articulated arm are non-articulated arms, wherein a drum having a closed end is grabbed by initially attaching the rim engaging means of the non-articulated arms to the rim of the drum, the articulated arm then brought into the rim engaging position for attachment to the rim, whereby the biasing means applies a force against the closed end of the drum as the articulated arm is engaged with the drum rim, wherein the drum grab is retained on the drum by the force notwithstanding an absence of a lifting force and wherein pushing against the force of the biasing means allows all the arms to be released and the disengagement of the grab from the drum.