According to the US Patent & Trademark Office: “Apparatus discloses an improved hoisting sling specially for palletised loads comprising a pair of skids, having opposing ends, each with a channel terminating in a puck-shaped cavity forming means of engagement of lengths of load bearing members having mating puck-shaped members thereon.”
It added: “The load bearing members extend from distal ends of a spreader frame extending between and having means for engaging the load bearing members. Depending from the intersection of the spreader arm an anchor line extends to a common load bearing member serving as terminus for load bearing members extending to the terminal ends of the spreader arms and also serving as point of attachment for a user selected hoisting device.”
The inventor was issued US Patent Number 7,290,815 on November 6.
The original application was filed on August 11 2005.
