Cable Tensioning Assembly and Method of Using Same
AssigneeWestern Excelsior, LLC
InventorChad Lipscomb
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Abstract
A cable tensioning assembly for securing at least one elongate member, comprising: a case having a first side and an opposing second side with a first and a second curved cavity, respectively; a first and second gripping arrangement in the first and the second curved cavity, respectively, each of the gripping arrangements having a clamp; a central cavity with a connector disposed within said central cavity, wherein each of the gripping arrangement clamps are adapted to secure the at least one elongate member against the case by activating the connector.
Claims20
1-23. (canceled)
A cable tensioning assembly, for securing at least one elongate member, comprising:
- a case having a first side and an opposing second side with a first and a second curved cavity, respectively;
- and,
- a central cavity between the first and second curved cavities, with a connector disposed within the central cavity and wherein the connector comprises a top spring cap element and a bottom spring cap element with a post therebetween,
- wherein the top spring cap element and the bottom spring cap element are adapted to secure the at least one elongate member against the case by connecting the top spring cap element and a bottom spring cap element to each other.
A method of using a cable tensioning assembly, for securing at least one elongate member, comprising:
- sliding the at least one elongate member through a front cable insertion hole of the cable tensioning assembly;
- sliding the at least one elongate member through a front cable exit hole of the cable tensioning assembly;
- performing one of:
- looping the at least one elongate member through the cable tensioning assembly by looping the at least one elongate member back through the cable tensioning assembly by inserting the at least one elongate member through a back cable insertion hole of the cable tensioning assembly, and,
- sliding the elongate member through a back cable exit hole of the cable tensioning assembly;
- or
- connecting at least one elongate member to a second elongate member by, inserting the second elongate member into the back cable insertion hole, and,
- inserting the second elongate member through the back cable exit hole of the cable tensioning assembly;
- and,
- activating a connector to lock the at least one elongate member and/or the second elongate member in the cable tensioning assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.