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 Title: |
US4813745:
Restraining device
[ Derwent Title ]
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Woody, Van D.; Suncook, NH 03275
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1989-03-21
/ 1987-10-13
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| Application Number: |
US1987000107103
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
E05B 75/00;
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IPC-7:
A47C 31/00;
E05B 75/00;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
297/464;
070/016;
297/183.1;
297/188.04;
297/217.3;
Original:
297/464;
070/016;
297/183;
297/191;
297/217;
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| Field of Search: |
297/464,466,469,183,191,217
128/133,134
070/016,18
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| Priority Number: |
| 1987-10-13 |
US1987000107103 |
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| Abstract: |
Disclosed is an improved restraining device which restrains a prisoner in a seated position with the hands and arms clamped in a position restraining the prisoner. The device may include back and head support structure as well as a seating area and a pair of pedestals each of which is designed to restrain one of the arms. Mechanically or electromagnetically activated clamps are associated with the pedestals and are provided to releasably clamp the wrists and hands of the prisoner.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
H. Jay Spiegel & Associates ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
McCall, James T.;
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. An improved restraining device comprising
- (a) a housing having a seating portion sized to receive the buttocks of a person;
- (b) said housing further including, to each side of said seating portion, an upstanding column; and
- (c) restraining means including at least one restraint mounted on each said column for restraining the wrists and hands of said person, said restraining means including at least one electrically actuable restraint, and power supply means mounted in said housing for controllably supplying power to said at least one electrically actuable restraint.
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| Forward References: |
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