Rope having an end connector segment comprising two rope-branches with unequal lengths
AssigneeLankhorst Touwfabrieken B.V.
InventorsPieter De Jager, Adrianus Stout
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Abstract
A rope includes a main rope segment, a branching position and an end connector segment, wherein the end connector segment includes a first rope-branch, which includes a first rope-branch-eye, and a second rope-branch, which includes a second rope-branch-eye, wherein an attainable maximum first effective length of the first rope-branch is higher than 120% of an attainable maximum second effective length of the second rope-branch. The rope allows for alternative favourable manners of connecting the rope to other ropes and to other types of external objects.
Claims8
A rope, wherein the rope along a longitudinal rope direction of the rope towards a longitudinal rope end of the rope successively comprises at least a main rope segment, a branching position and an end connector segment, wherein:
- the branching position is a fixed position along the longitudinal rope direction,
- the end connector segment is formed by all parts of the rope that, as seen in said longitudinal rope direction, are extending from the branching position up to the longitudinal rope end,
- the end connector segment has two, and only two, branches of the rope,
- said two branches of the rope are consisting of a first rope-branch and a second rope-branch, which at said branching position are branched off from the main rope segment,
- the first rope-branch comprises a first rope-branch-eye and the second rope-branch comprises a second rope-branch-eye, and
- an attainable maximum first effective length of the first rope-branch is higher than 120% of an attainable maximum second effective length of the second rope-branch.
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