Crafts rope maker
OwnerRichard B. Hartmaninventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for making decorative crafts ropes including a hand-held motorized strand twisting unit and an improved method for rigging, anchoring and spreading strands. Strand twisting unit includes a frame or housing, hand grip, electrical circuit, motor, drive mechanism and twisting hooks. In the rigging process, twisting hooks are aligned and interspaced with a series of anchoring hooks on a strand anchoring unit so as to capture or snag two or more strand segments in a single motion.
Claims9
In an apparatus for making decorative crafts ropes, a hand-supported or hand-held strand twisting unit comprising:
- (a) a frame or housing, said frame or housing including a handle or supporting means for supporting and stabilizing said strand twisting unit with one hand;
- (b) a plurality of twisting hooks rotatably mounted on or within said frame, said twisting hooks providing capturing means for simultaneously capturing or snagging a strand at a plurality of predetermined strand segments or points along said strand with the same hand;
- (c) rotating means for imparting a rotary motion upon said twisting hooks to twist the individual strand segments, said rotating means including controlling means for controlling said rotary motion with one hand while said hand-held strand twisting unit is held by the same hand.
An apparatus for making decorative crafts ropes comprising:
- (a) a strand anchoring unit including a plurality of anchoring hooks and mounting means for securely mounting said plurality of anchoring hooks during rigging, said anchoring hooks providing means for receiving a strand and delimiting strand segments in said strand;
- (b) a hand-held strand twisting unit comprising a frame or housing, said frame or housing including a handle or supporting means for supporting said hand-held strand twisting unit with one hand;
- twisting hooks rotatably mounted on or within said frame or housing, said twisting hooks providing capturing means for simultaneously capturing or snagging said strand segments from said strand anchoring unit during rigging;
- rotating means for imparting rotary motion upon said twisting hooks to twist the individual strands.
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