Cable stopper
AssigneeAktien-Gesellschaft "Weser"
InventorPeter Hartz
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Abstract
A device for clamping and stopping elongated objects. The device encompasses a passage adapted to receive at least a section of an elongated object to be stopped. Two jaws are located on both sides of this passage and are associated with a mounting arrangement to displace the jaws toward and away from the section for insertion of the elongated object and to clamp and release it. The device is a cable stopper in which the jaws catch and stop a cable led through the passage.
Claims20
A device for clamping and stopping elongated objects, particularly cables, comprising means defining a passage adapted to receive at least an elongated section of the object to be clamped and stopped, said means defining said passage being a casing having an equilateral trapezoidal configuration bounded by bottom and top walls spaced from each other by elongated rectangular side walls, said casing having on the wide lower and the narrow apex side thereof an aperture for passage of a cable;
- said casing having a hinge-like configuration formed by a pair of equal half-portions, suspended in their bottom walls on a joining stem parallel to the casing longitudinal axis and limitedly pivotable thereupon, so that said casing half-portions, in being pivoted on said joining stem, open between their top walls a longitudinal gap for insertion of a cable, at least two jaws located in said passage adjacent to said elongated section of the object to be clamped and stopped, said clamping jaws being arranged in a pair against one another within said casing, slidable therein and movable toward each other to clamp and stop therebetween a cable, each of said jaws having the form of a right-angled triangular body bounded by a base edge, a slanting distal edge parallel to the adjacent side wall of said casing, and an inward edge extending at right angle from said base edge, so that the inward edges of said jaws extend parallel to one another;
- means mounting said jaws in said casing for displacement toward and away from said elongated section to thereby clamp and release said elongated object, said mounting means including guide walls of said casing which converge in the longitudinal direction of said passage, and surfaces on said jaws which engage said casing guide walls, so that the jaws slide along said guide walls during said displacement;
- means for shifting said jaws in longitudinal direction inside said casing, so that the shift of said jaws toward the apex region of said casing causes said jaws to slide on their slanting distal edges along said casing guide walls, to approach one another on their inward side edges and thus to provide in various longitudinal positions thereof different spacings between each other to compress along their entire lengths from either side cables of various diameters, said shifting means being lateral double-arm levers pivotally attached to said casing, each having an internal and an external arm, each being coupled on its internal arm to one of said jaws proximate thereto, so that the actuating of the corresponding one of said external arm produces motion of the corresponding one of said jaws in the longitudinal direction of said casing, each of said external arms being provided with a means for attachment thereto of an actuating means, said actuating means being a tug coupled at one end thereof to each of said attachment means and provided at the other end thereof with a looped means for its connection to a stationary support structure providing local anchoring of said casing, the tugs having said connecting looped means in common.
A device for clamping and stopping elongated objects, particularly cables, comprising a hinge-like configured casing comprising a pair of half-portions defining a passage adapted for the insertion of a cable;
- a detent member;
- a clamping lever at one end connected pivotally to said casing and the other end arranged proximate to said detent member so as to permit the half-portions to be driven towards each other by engaging said detent member;
- a pair of clamping jaws arranged in both of the half-portions so that said jaws oppose each other;
- means mounting said jaws in said casing for slidable displacement toward and away from the cable so as to stop the cable;
- a plurality of attachment levers, each pivotally connected to one of said respective jaws so as to produce a forward shift of said jaws as the attachment levers are drawn;
- and an actuating means connected to said attachment levers, wherein said hinge-like casing comprises an equilateral trapezoidal configuration bound by bottom and top walls spaced from each other by elongated rectangular side walls, a wide, lower and apex side with a passage for the insertion of a cable, said pair of jaws each having the form of a right-triangular body bounded by a base edge, a slanting distal edge parallel to the adjacent side wall of said casing, and an inward edge extending at right angle from said base edge so that the inward edges of said jaws extend parallel to one another.
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