Rope-securing device

• US 20040034972A1
• Filed: 08/20/2003
• Published: 02/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jason Aaron Brown
• Original Assignee: Jason Aaron Brown
• Inventors: Brown, Jason Aaron
• Application Number:
  US10/644,316
• Publication Number:
  US 20040034972A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 24/129R
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 21/08 Clamping devices in general F16B; means for fastening cables or ropes to one another or to other objects in general F16G11/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/046 by bending the cable around a surface
• 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 device for securing two sections of rope together includes a body having a first plurality of through-openings through which one section of a rope can be threaded and a second plurality of through-openings through which another section of rope can be threaded to thereby secure the sections of rope in a fixed positional relationship with one another. The device is particularly well-suited for use to suspend a boat fender from the side of a boat.

Claims

1. A device for securing two sections of rope together, the device comprising:

a body defining a first set of through-openings through which one section of rope can be threaded and a second set of through-openings through which another section of rope can be threaded so that by threading the first and second sections of rope through the corresponding sets of through-openings, the one and another sections of rope are secured to one another.

2. The device as defined in claim 1 wherein the body has two opposite side faces and the through-openings of each set open out of the opposite side faces of the body.

3. The device as defined in claim 1 wherein the body is in the form of a plate having two opposite side faces, and the through-openings of each set extend between the opposite side faces of the body.

4. The device as defined in claim 1 wherein each set of through-openings includes at least three through-openings.

5. The device as defined in claim 4 wherein the through-openings in each set are positioned along a linear path.

6. The device as defined in claim 1 wherein the through-openings of each set are positioned relatively close together so that when a corresponding section of rope is threaded through the through-openings of the set, the rope follows a relatively tortuous path.

7. The device as defined in claim 6 wherein the through-openings of each set are spaced apart by a distance which corresponds generally to the thickness of the rope section to be threaded through the through-openings of the set.

8. The device as defined in claim 6 wherein the through-openings of each set have diameters which are about equal to the diameter of the rope section to be threaded through the through-openings of the set.

9. A device for securing two sections of a rope together, the device comprising:

a body having two opposite side faces and defining a first set of through-openings which open out of the side faces and through which one section of rope can be threaded and a second set of through-openings which open out of the side faces and through which another section of rope can be threaded so that by threading the first and second sections of rope through the corresponding sets of through-openings, the one and another sections of rope are secured in a fixed positional relationship with one another.

10. The device as defined in claim 9 wherein the body has two opposite side faces and the through-openings of each set open out of the side faces of the body.

11. The device as defined in claim 9 wherein the body is in the form of a plate having two opposite side faces, and the through-openings of each set extend between the side faces of the body.

12. The device as defined in claim 9 wherein each set of through-openings includes at least three through-openings.

13. The device as defined in claim 9 wherein the through-openings in each set are positioned along a linear path.

14. The device as defined in claim 9 wherein the through-openings of each set are positioned relatively close together so that when a corresponding section of rope is threaded through the through-openings of the set, the rope follows a relatively tortuous path.

15. The device as defined in claim 14 wherein the through-openings of each set are spaced apart by a distance which corresponds generally to the thickness of the rope section to be threaded through the through-openings of the set.

16. The device as defined in claim 14 wherein the through-openings in each set are about 0.5 inches apart.

17. The device as defined in claim 13 wherein the body of the device has a thickness as measured between the two side faces which is about 0.375 inches.

18. The device as defined in claim 9 wherein the through-openings of each set have diameters which are slightly larger than those of the rope sections to be threaded through the through-openings.

19. The device as defined in claim 9 wherein the body of the device is in the form of a rectangular platen.