System of entanglement avoidance

• US 10,458,065 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2017
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thomas Collins Tallagnon
• Original Assignee: Thomas Collins Tallagnon
• Inventors: Tallagnon, Thomas Collins
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Do, Rowland
• Application Number:
  US15/456,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20170261067A1
• Time in Patent Office: 963 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 1/34 Crane hooks
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/06 with laterally-arranged screws F16G11/02, F16G11/04 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/10 Quick-acting fastenings; Clamps holding in one direction only

Abstract

A wire rope entanglement avoidance device includes a guide component including a top portion and bottom portion, the top portion and bottom portion shaped along a curvature, the top portion and bottom portion arranged in rotational opposition along a length of material and adapted to fit around the wire rope and a sheath, disposed at an offset from the guide component, adapted to fit over a dead end of the wire rope.

Claims

1. A method for preventing entanglements between a dead end and a live end of a wire rope, said method comprising the steps of:

a.) providing a body, wherein the body comprises a first guide component that is configured at an offset from a second sheath portion of the body by a curved portion of the body;

b.) placing the first guide component of the body on the live end of the wire rope,

c.) threading the wire rope through a terminator wedge socket so that the dead end is aligned adjacent to the live end; and

d.) inserting the dead end of the wire rope into the second sheath portion of the body so that the second sheath portion of the body covers an end of the dead end and secures the dead end adjacent to the live end by the offset.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, which produces a smooth non-concave surface from a point beyond a far edge of the dead end of the wire rope to a point on the live end of the wire rope and above the end of the dead end.