US 5,192,144 A · End finishing device for rope, wire, cable, and the like

Abstract

A reusable end finishing apparatus for rope, cord, wire, cable and the like is provided. The end finishing apparatus has an outer rigid sleeve, an inner compressible barbed gripping member which engages the end to be finished, and an eyebolt which has a threaded rod which extends through holes in both the compressible gripping member and the outer rigid sleeve. In assembly for use, the termination of the device to be finished is threaded through the eyebolt and doubled back. The eyebolt is then placed in the compressible gripping member with grooves in the gripping member provided for the eyebolt eye. The threaded rod end of the eyebolt is moved through a hole in the compressible gripping member until the eye of the eyebolt bottoms in the gripping member. The gripping member and termination are advanced into and compressed by the outer sleeve by locating the eyebolt rod in the hole in the outer rigid sleeve, threading a fastener on the extended threaded rod of the eyebolt, and rotating the fastener appropriately.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus for engagement with and for end finishing of a termination of a flexible item such as a rope, cord, wire, cable or the like, and for use with a bolt means having an eye member through which the termination can extend and also having a longitudinally extending threaded rod member coupled at a first end to said eye member with said eye member being in alignment with the longitudinal axis of the threaded rod member, said apparatus comprising:

(a) a hollow rigid sleeve member open at one end and having a first opening at its opposite end, wherein the rod member can pass through said first opening in said sleeve member;
and
(b) a compressible gripping member open at one end and having a second opening at its opposite end through which said rod member can pass, and having inwardly extending barbs for gripping said termination, said gripping member at least partially surrounding a doubled over portion of the termination, and configured to engage said eye member to substantially prevent rotation of said eye member relative to said compressible gripping member, said gripping member being adapted to be drawn into said hollow sleeve member and to be compressed thereby so as to be in a close nesting fit within said sleeve member.

Apparatus for engagement with and for end finishing of a termination of a flexible item such as a rope, cord, wire, cable or the like which comprises:

(a) a hollow rigid sleeve member open at one end and having a relatively small opening at its opposite end;
(b) a bolt means having an eye member through which the termination can extend and also having a longitudinally extending threaded rod member coupled at a first end to said eye member with said eye member being in alignment with the longitudinal axis of the threaded rod member, said rod member passing through said relatively small opening in said sleeve member;
(c) a compressible gripping member open at one end and having a relatively small opening at its opposite end, and having inwardly extending barbs for gripping said termination, said gripping member at least partially surrounding a doubled over portion of the termination, and configured to engage said eye member to substantially prevent rotation of said eye member relative to said compressible gripping member, said gripping member being adapted to be drawn into said hollow sleeve member and to be compressed thereby so as to be in a close nesting fit within said sleeve member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

End finishing device for rope, wire, cable, and the like

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End finishing device for rope, wire, cable, and the like

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