Drip tube and tied rope combination

• US 20040010892A1
• Filed: 07/19/2002
• Published: 01/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gary L. Clark
• Original Assignee: Gary L. Clark
• Inventors: Clark, Gary L.
• Application Number:
  US10/199,391
• Publication Number:
  US 20040010892A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 24/129R
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 53/02 Clothes-lines
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/103 deforming the cable by bending it around or inserting it into the fastener
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/14 Devices or coupling-pieces designed for easy formation of adjustable loops, e.g. choker hooks; Hooks or eyes with integral parts designed to facilitate quick attachment to cables or ropes at any point, e.g. by forming loops
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3916 One-piece

Abstract

A short tube of large enough diameter to allow a rope, wire, cable or cord to pass through the center and wrap around the wall of the tube easily one or more times. The purpose of which is to drain off water when the highest end of a moored rope or cable is exposed to rain. As water runs down the rope it will drip off at the lowest part of the bend created by the wrap around the wall of the tube. The length of the tube being a ratio of the diameter of the rope and the slant at which the rope is moored so that a long enough wrap and an optimum angle are obtained with respect to gravity.

Claims

1. A combination tube and tied rope, wherein the rope is extended through the tube and wrapped around the tube, exiting the tube at the end thereof opposite the end into which the rope is introduced.

2. A combination tube and tied rope, as set forth in claim 1, wherein the rope is tied at one end thereof to a fixed location.

3. A combination tube and tied rope, as set forth in claim 2, wherein the opposite end of the rope is secured to a hammock.

4. A combination tube and tied rope, as set forth in claim 2, wherein the opposite end of the rope is secured to a fixed location to permit clothing items to be hung from the rope.

5. A combination tube and tied rope as set forth in claim 2, wherein the opposite end of the rope is secured to a fixed location to permit a hanging food bag to be hung from the rope.