Device for Termination of a Rope
OwnerNeil SCHULZinventor
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Abstract
A device for termination of a rope comprises a cylinder extending longitudinally from a base to a cone or pyramid, wherein the cylinder defines at least one channel for receiving a pair of subropes substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder. It can be used for termination of rope manufactured from synthetic fibres or constructed from multiple subropes.
Claims30
A device for termination of a rope which comprises a cylinder extending longitudinally from a base to a cone or pyramid, wherein the cylinder defines at least one channel for receiving a pair of subropes substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder.
A method for terminating a rope, which comprises the steps of:
- providing a device which comprises a cylinder extending longitudinally from a base to a cone or pyramid, wherein the cylinder defines at least one channel for receiving a pair of subropes substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the cylinder,
- splitting the rope into pairs of subropes,
- placing the subropes of each pair in the channel(s) of said device, and
- splicing each pair together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.