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Camming cleat member for rope

  • US 5,070,805 A
  • Filed: 05/25/1990
  • Issued: 12/10/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Rope cleat and snubber means for simultaneous snubbing of up to a pair of ropes and comprising a generally conical base plate with a pair of rope receiving slots formed chordally therewithin and having a spring-biased camming plate disposed and received coaxially within said base plate and arranged for rotation relative thereto, said rope cleat and snubber means being characterized in that:

  • (a) said base plate includes a pad surface along an undersurface thereof and with said pair of rope receiving slots arranged generally chordally along an upper surface of said base plate and in generally oppositely disposed relationship to a central axis of said base plate, said base plate further having a camming plate receiving bore extending inwardly from the upper surface thereof;

    (b) said camming plate having an upper generally rectangular plate with arcuately shaped ends adapted for rotation within said base plate bore, and with a major axis of said rectangular plate having a length which exceeds a diameter of said camming plate receiving bore, and with a minor axis having a length substantially less than the diameter of said camming plate receiving bore so as to permit ingress of a length of a rope into said pair of rope receiving slots when said camming plate is rotatably positioned within said base plate with said rope receiving slots generally parallel to said major axis; and

    (c) said camming plate having a pair of generally oppositely disposed rope camming surfaces having an increasing radius, and arranged to snub a rope captured within said rope receiving slots and to force said captured rope against an outer surface of said rope receiving slots, said rope camming surfaces having a generally "U" shaped channel with a profiled depth which decreases as the camming radius increases.

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