Adjustable rope lock

An adjustable rope lock comprising a body having a pair of angularly disposed passageways therethrough, a rope extending through the passageways, one end of the passageways merging into a single elongate opening at one surface of the body and including spaced ends at another surface of the body and means supporting said body whereby the angle of a taut rope segment of the rope approaches the line of resistance provided by the body to the force exerted on the taut rope segment, to frictionally lock the rope segments when the taut rope segment approaches said line of resistance.

An adjustable rope lock comprising a body having opposed surfaces, means supporting said body from a supporting structure, said body including a pair of passageway extending between and communicating with the opposite surfaces, said passageways having one of their ends in spaced relation in one of said opposed surfaces, the other ends of said passageways merging and joining into a single oval shaped opening in the other of said surfaces, a flexible rope extending through said passageways with the free ends of the rope exiting from the elongate opening as rope segments, one of said rope segments being above the other as they exit from the elongate opening with an upper rope segment being taut and a lower rope segment being loose to form a pull rope segment whereby the taut rope segment will bear against and frictionally lock the pull rope segment against linear movement into the elongate opening when the taut rope segment is oriented in an angular position extending outwardly and downwardly from the body with the pull rope segment being movable outwardly in a linear direction when the pull rope segment is located below the taut rope segment, said passageways converging toward said elongate opening with at least a portion of the passageways being spaced apart by a wedge-shaped component of said body.