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US 4,402,489 AGranted
Rope protection device
OwnerRichard C. Murrayinventor
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Abstract
A rope protection device comprising several layers of canvass with spaced splints lodged between bottom and adjacent layers of canvass, said layers being joined at the periphery by sewing or the like wherein opposite edges of the canvass assembly are folded over towards each other to provide a channel for a rope therein including transverse spaced webbing binding the opposite edges of the assembly in a fixed channel forming position wherein the rope can be threaded through the opposite open ends of the device.
Claims1
An elongated rope protection device comprising;
- a flexible channel formed from multiple fabric layers having longitudinal sides curved toward each other with strap means maintaining the sides in spaced apart relationship to define a tube with opened ends adapted to receive and secure a rope therethrough;
- a plurality of substantially rigid splints spaced apart within the fabric layers, means attaching said splints in predetermined spaced locations along the length of the device to define therebetween hinged areas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.