US 11,938,857 B2
Reusable stretching tie-down with locking links
Zacarias Guerra, Edinburg, TX (US)
Filed by Zacarias Guerra, Edinburg, TX (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/527,183.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/116,305, filed on Nov. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0161707 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. B60P 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC B60P 7/0823 (2013.01) 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A reusable stretching tie-down comprising:
a plurality of connected links;
an integrally formed tab on at least one end;
wherein the links are connected to one another and to the tab with a locking channel and a joint;
wherein the tab has a nose wedge, an angle nocks, an indented thumb grip between the nose wedge and the angle nocks, and a joint wedge adjacent to the locking channel;
wherein each of the links has angle nocks at each end, a joint wedge adjacent to the locking channels at each end, and a terminal, the terminal being an opening between the joint wedges of each link; and
wherein the reusable stretching tie-down is enabled to be adjusted to a desired length and secured by inserting the tab into the terminal of a particular one of the links, pulling at least the tab and optionally one or more of links behind the tab through the terminal of the particular link, and rotating a last one of the tab or the links behind the tab to be pulled through the terminal of the particular link at the locking channel of the last one of the tab or the one or more links behind the tab to be pulled through the terminal of the particular link to lock the reusable stretching tie-down at the desired length.