Connector for synthetic and coated wire rope
AssigneeThe National Telephone Supply Company
InventorRaymond Disantis
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Abstract
A sleeve for terminating synthetic rope and coated wire rope has a body and a first channel, a second channel, and a third channel formed within the body. Each of the first, second, and third channels form a trilobular opening within the sleeve for receiving and crimping wire rope. The wire rope can have an eye splice formed at one end. A method of crimping the trilobular sleeve includes feeding the rope through the first channel of the trilobular sleeve, looping the rope through the second channel of the sleeve and then through the third channel of the trilobular sleeve, inserting the sleeve between upper and lower crimp dies, and pressing the sleeve between the dies, thereby crimping the sleeve to the rope.
Claims8
A method of crimping a trilobular sleeve, comprising:
- providing a trilobular sleeve comprising a passage formed of a first channel, a second channel and a third channel which are connected to each other, each of the first channel, the second channel, and the third channel being spaced about 120 degrees apart;
- feeding a wire rope through said first channel of said trilobular sleeve in a first direction, looping said wire rope through said second channel of said trilobular sleeve in a second direction, and then looping through said third channel of said trilobular sleeve;
- inserting said trilobular sleeve between upper and lower crimp dies;
- pressing said trilobular sleeve between said upper and lower crimp dies, thereby crimping said trilobular sleeve to said wire rope.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.