Rope clamps

• US 3,163,902 A
• Filed: 07/27/1962
• Issued: 01/05/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Aage Faber Knud, Adolph Bernburg Frantz
• Original Assignee: Aage Faber Knud, Adolph Bernburg Frantz
• Inventors: ADOLPH BERNBURG FRANTZ, AAGE FABER KNUD
• Application Number:
  US04/212,947
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• US Class Current: 403/369
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/048 by moving a surface into the cable
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/146 Eyes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/7054 Plural, circumferentially related shims between members

Claims

1. A ROPE CLAMP FOR GRIPPING OR SECURING AT LEAST ONE ROPE OR CABLE PORTION, COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO LAMP MEMBERS ADAPTED TO BE PRESSED TOWARDS EACH OTHER, AND MEANS ADAPTED TO KEEP SAID TWO CLAMP MEMBERS PRESSED TOWARDS EACH OTHER, AN INTERNAL GROOVE EXTENDING THROUGH THE LENGTH OF EACH SAID CLAMP MEMBER, SAID GROOVES COOPERATING WHEN SAID TWO CLAMP MEMBERS ARE TOGETHER TO FORM A PASSAGE FOR RECEIVING THE ROPE OR CABLE PORTION OR PORTIONS, EACH SAID GROOVE BEING ADAPTED RECEIVE A ROPE OR CABLE PORTION, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID GROOVES BEING FORMED WITH A FIRST, A SECOND AND A THIRD GROOVE PORTION, SAID SECOND GROOVE PORTION HAVING A TRANSVERE CROSS SECTION DIFFERING FROM THE TRANSVERSE CROSS SECTION OF SAID FIRST GROOVE PORTION AND DIFFERENT FROM THE CROSS SECTION OF SAID THIRD GROOVE PORTION THEREBY THAT SAID SECOND GROOVE PORTION HAS A MAJOR WIDTH GREATER THAN THE MAJOR WIDTH OF SAID FIRST GROOVE PORTION AS WELL AS OF SAID THIRD GROOVE PORTION BUT A MAJOR DEPTH SMALLER THAN THE MAJOR DEPTH OF SAID FIRST GROOVE PORTION AS WELL AS OF SAID THIRD GROOVE PORTION.