Wire rope tensioning device
OwnerJohn W. Schmidtinventor
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Abstract
A tensioning device for providing tension to a length of running cable or line (e.g., wire rope) as it is being wound onto a drum. The tensioning device has a tubular housing in two longitudinal halves, the tubular housing halves hingeably joined along one set of adjacent edges by a hinge means and closeable along the second set of adjacent edges by a clamp means. A removable inner sleeve for receiving and compressing stock in two longitudinal halves, each sleeve half closely received in and lines the interior surface of each tubular housing half. The inner sleeve contains an axial bore equally along its length between the two sleeve halves. The combination of the hinge and clamp means closes the housing halves, compressing the inner sleeves. Anchor rings are mounted on the housing for fixing the device against movement.
Claims18
A wire rope tensioning device comprising:
- a tubular housing in two longitudinal halves;
- the tubular housing halves having a first set of adjacent edges and a second set of adjacent edges;
- and a means for joining the housing halves along each set of adjacent edges;
- a removable inner sleeve in two longitudinal halves, each sleeve half closely received in and lining an interior surface of a tubular housing half, the inner sleeve having an axial bore, the axial bore for receiving and slideably compressing the wire rope to be wound onto a drum;
- a clamp means disposed along the second adjacent edges for closing the housing halves and compressing inner sleeve halves around the wire rope received in the axial bore;
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- a plurality of anchoring rings, mounted on the tubular housing for fixing the housing against movement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.