Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Lock out/tag out device having a tie-receiving passageway
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Application No.: US15098556Application Date: 2016-04-14
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Publication No.: US10431401B2Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Inventor: Steven J. Benda , Nels E. Benda , Chad M. Benda
- Applicant: Brady Worldwide, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WI Milwaukee
- Assignee: Brady Worldwide, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Brady Worldwide, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WI Milwaukee
- Agency: Quarles & Brady LLP
- Main IPC: H01H9/28
- IPC: H01H9/28

Abstract:
A device and related method temporarily restrict use of a control via one or more of lock out and tag out. The device includes a first and second portion. The first portion has a passageway adapted for the reception of a tie that extends through the first portion along a distance of passageway extension. The second portion has a tang and is movable relative to the first portion to move the tang transversely across the passageway relative to the direction of passageway extension to toggle the device between an opened position and a closed position. A tie may be received in the passageway and the reception of this tie in the passageway may prevent the device from being moved from the closed position back into the opened position due to inability of the tang of the second portion to be moved past the tie in the passageway of the first portion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160336122A1 Lock Out/Tag Out Device Having a Tie-Receiving Passageway Public/Granted day:2016-11-17
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