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US 4,080,782 AGranted
Swivel for cargo binders and the like
AssigneeLake City Manufacturing Co.
InventorCarl Colecchio
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Abstract
A swivel having a socket, an eye element formed in a bifurcated manner and in retention of a terminal tool such as a hook element, and the socket forged with a clearance closure in retention of the eye element whereby the eye is free to turn and limitedly pivot but is restrained from removal from the socket. The socket is formed as a part of a chain binder or the like and is useable on either of or both the clevis and bar ends of such binders.
Claims2
A method for swivel connection of forged parts comprising:
- forging an open eye element having an eye portion and bifurcated shank portions with enlarged ends;
- inserting said forged open eye element in a part to be connected;
- closing said shank portions to close said eye by heat and pressure;
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- inserting said shank and enlargement of said eye element in a swivel socket closing said socket on said shank and over said enlarged portion of said eye element.
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The method of producing a forged swivel for chain binders and the like comprising:
- forming by forging a terminal implement having a holding aperture therethrough;
- forming by forging an open eye element having an eye portion and bifurcated shank portion with enlargements on the ends thereof;
- forming by forging an open socket in a tension loading link and said socket having an annular integral external flange around the open end thereof;
- heating said eye element and inserting in the aperture of said terminal implement and bending with pressure said shank ends toward adjacent contact;
- inserting said shank portion and said enlarged portion at the ends of said eye element into said socket and closing said socket by deformation of said flange of said socket around the shank of said eye element and thereby retaining said eye element in swivel relation in said socket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.