US 11,746,951 B2
Cable deployment apparatus, system, and methods for suspended load control equipment
Derek Sikora, Denver, CO (US); Caleb B. Carr, Denver, CO (US); and Logan Goodrich, Golden, CO (US)
Assigned to Vita Inclinata IP Holdings LLC, Broomfield, CO (US)
Filed by Vita Inclinata IP Holdings LLC, Broomfield, CT (US)
Filed on Feb. 26, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/802,368.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/810,875, filed on Feb. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0271270 A1, Aug. 27, 2020
Int. Cl. F16M 13/00 (2006.01); B66C 13/06 (2006.01)
CPC F16M 13/005 (2013.01) [B66C 13/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A deployment apparatus to secure or not secure a load control apparatus onto a suspension cable, wherein the deployment apparatus comprises:
a bearing, housing, a clamp housing, a releasable jaw, and an engagement mechanism to place the releasable jaw in an open state or a closed state;
wherein the releasable jaw comprises a cable receiving area, wherein the cable receiving area is to receive or not receive the suspension cable, and wherein the releasable jaw is to secure the load control apparatus to the suspension cable when the suspension cable is present in the cable receiving area and the releasable jaw is in the closed state and is to not secure the load control apparatus onto the suspension cable when the releasable jaw is in the open state;
wherein the releasable jaw is within the clamp housing; wherein the load control apparatus is to be secured to bearing housing; wherein the bearing housing and the clamp housing have a degree of freedom of motion between the bearing housing and the clamp housing; and wherein the degree of freedom of motion between the bearing housing and the clamp housing is to allow the bearing housing and the load control apparatus to rotate in yaw about the clamp housing and the cable receiving area.