Cleat device

• US 4,373,463 A
• Filed: 08/05/1980
• Issued: 02/15/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Goldeneye Products, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Concept Industries, Inc.
• Inventors: Beaudette, Jerald G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Blix, Trygve M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Avila, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US06/175,484
• Time in Patent Office: 924 Days
• Field of Search: 114/210, 114/218, 114/199, 24/115 H, 24/117, 24/129 R, 24/129 W, 24/137 R, 24/201 HH, 24/230.5 R, 24/230.5 W, 24/230.5 AD, 24/265 H, 24/130, D 8/382, D 8/356
• US Class Current: 114/218
• 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: Y10T 24/3916 One-piece

Abstract

For rapidly restraining and releasing a flexible line, a cleat device including a base; a plurality of at least three jam cleats mounted on said base in juxtaposition with adjacent open ends facing in opposite directions; and at least one pair of hooks, one each on the base adjacent and outside the first and last jam cleats. The jam cleats each include an upper face and a lower face converging to form a first acute angle. In a preferred embodiment, at least one face of each jam cleat includes a longitudinally extending ridge thereon.

Claims

1. A cleat device on a larger structure for restraining a flexible line including:

A. a base fixedly mounted to said larger structure;

B. a plurality of at least three parallel, spaced-apart, jam cleats mounted on said base in juxtaposition, with adjacent open ends facing in opposition directions, said jam cleats each including a planar upper face and a planar lower face converging to form a first acute angle;

C. at least one of said faces of each of said jam cleats including a longitudinally extending ridge thereon forming a second acute angle with the other face, said rib being centrally aligned with its working face and said rib not extending entirely across the width of the face and said first angle ranges from 10°

to 50° and

said second angle ranges from 15°

to 60°

; and

D. means to maintain a line cleated in said jam cleats so that its axis is in direction to maintain said line in jammed relationship with respect to the outermost jam cleats.

2. The cleat device of claim 1 wherein said second angle ranges from 20°

to 40°

.