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US 6,142,104 AGranted
Lariat rope body
AssigneeEquibrand Corporation
InventorPaul Ormon Sullivan
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Abstract
A cattle roping lariat rope body for making competitive cattle roping lariats, the rope body having a core of monofilaments in the center around which three or more strands of twisted monofilament yarns are wound tightly to form the rope body. The rope body also contains a wax.
Claims16
A cattle roping lariat rope body comprising:
- a) a core in a center portion of a cross section of the rope body, said core comprising monofilament yarns with the total denier of monofilaments in the core being at least about 30,000, the core extending the full length of the cattle roping lariat rope body,
- b) three or more twisted strands wound around the core to form a rope structure, said strands containing twisted monofilament yarns throughout a cross section of each strand, and
- c) a wax among at least some of the monofilaments in at least some of the yarns.
A cattle roping lariat rope body comprising:
- a) a core in a center portion of a cross section of the cattle roping lariat rope body and extending the full length of the rope body comprised of monofilament yarns containing monofilaments of a material selected from a group consisting of nylon, polyester, polypropylene, and polyethylene, the monofilaments in the core having a total denier of about 40,000 to about 58,500,
- b) four or more strands wound around said core to form a rope, each of said strands comprised of twisted yarns of monofilaments of a material selected from a group consisting of nylon, polyester, polypropylene and polyethylene, each strand containing twisted monofilament yarns throughout its cross section, the total denier of the monofilaments in each of said strands being in the range of about 75,000 to about 95,000, and
- c) a wax between at least some of the monofilaments in at least some of the yarns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.