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Article: North Carolina Inventors Develop Safety Retainers Locking Member
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 5, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- Kevin Duane Johnson of Cary, N.C., Ivan Neil Liverman of Middlesex, N.C., Eric Allen Stegner of Durham, N.C., and Robert William Stegner of Raleigh, N.C., have developed a locking member.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed for locking at least two safety retainers together. Each safety retainer has a pallet-attached base and a ramp-attached mating bracket. Each safety retainer includes a base and a bracket. Each bracket is coupled to a ramp that is can be removably attached to a pallet. Each base includes a retaining arm for locking the base to the bracket when the ramp is coupled to the pallet."
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