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US 4,060,049 AGranted
Water ski rope handle
AssigneeBerkley, Inc.
InventorJames T. Rumbaugh
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Abstract
A water ski rope handle of molded plastic construction with floatation cavities in the handle portion and rope anchoring end caps rigidly secured to the ends of the same which provide for mounting of the rope with the knots in the ends of the rope being recessed to captivate the same and with the rope being angled from the handle to minimize fraying or wear thereof.
Claims7
A water ski rope handle comprising:
- a cylindrical handle portion having a pair of hollow recesses therein and extending from opposite ends of the same, a pair of rope anchoring flanges mounted on the ends of the cylindrical handle portion, said flanges having ski rope anchoring portions and plug portions with the plug portions extending translationally from the achoring portions and being positioned into the recesses in the ends of cylindrical handle portion closing the same to define floatation cavities therein and mounting the flanges on the handle portion, said rope anchoring portions each having an aperture formed therein extending therethrough to the plug portion terminating in an exposed recess therein, said flanges being adapted to receive the ends of the tow rope to extend through the apertures in the rope anchoring portions with the rope being secured by knots at the ends of the same located in the exposed recesses of the rope anchoring the flanges, said rope anchoring flanges being inclined to the extent of the cylindrical portion by approximately 75.degree.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.