Abstract: An apparatus is provided to shorten and/or fasten flat belts or straps for wrapping and hoisting a load. The apparatus includes a vertical base plate having a crane lug located in its upper portion. Also, at least three deflectors with free ends are mounted in spaced apart relation on the plate so as to project generally perpendicularly therefrom. The free ends of the straps or belts are inserted into the apparatus and pulled between and looped about the deflectors in a meandering fashion to affix the belts to the apparatus before hoisting the load.

Abstract: A clamp assembly for securing the ends of longitudinal tensile load-bearing elements comprises a pair of rings having complementary tapered surfaces. When assembled, one ring seats coaxially inside the other ring and the elements are gripped between the tapered surfaces. The outer, tapered surface of the inner ring is roughened and embedded in the surface of the elements so that load on the elements acts preferentially to draw the inner ring more tightly against the inner, tapered surface of the outer ring. An outer collar engages the outer ring with a flange to retain the assembly. The assembly finds particular application as an armour clamp for a submarine telecommunications cable.

Abstract: A clamp for fixedly mounting the lower end of a remote speed control cable that controls the speed of a small internal combustion engine. The clamp includes a clip member removably attachable to the casing of the remote speed control cable and a mounting bracket on the engine for receiving and removably mounting the clip member thereon. The clip member is U-shaped with each side of the U having a bifurcated end defining a pair of legs having a cable receiving open therebetween dimensioned to tightly engage the casing of the cable. In one form, the mounting bracket includes a pair of horizontally extending and vertically spaced apart support ears having aligned clip receiving openings for snugly receiving the clip member, and in another form the bracket includes an upstanding support member about which opposite sides of the U-shaped clip member are disposed.

Abstract: The disclosure herein describes a device for cinching a cord; it comprises an outer body, having a cord entrance and a cord exit, and an inner body having a channel allowing the cord to extend from the entrance to the exit and a pair of opposite gripping surfaces which serve to secure the cord in a cinched condition. A finger actuated unlatching slide carries a stirrup which releases the cord from the gripped surfaces.

Abstract: A cord or rod clamp includes a housing defining a central opening and having jaw members and wedge members located within the housing. Spring elements normally position the jaw members in substantially contacting relationship with each other and within the opening, and the wedge members are operated to selectively separate the jaw members from each other to permit insertion of a cord or rod into the opening and between the jaw members.

Abstract: A fastener for releasably clamping cords which includes a housing having a cavity therein and a movable element disposed in said cavity defining one or two cord passages and further including a spring attached to the housing so that the passage is restricted by the movable element.

Abstract: A cable gripping block is provided with sectional cover plates for easy and quick removal, where the cover plates are secured to the cable gripping block by cylindrical tenons projecting from the cable gripping blocks, through cavities in the sectional cover plate. The tenons absorb any transverse forces generated by the clamping action of the cable gripping block.

Abstract: A clamp comprises a split sleeve provided with a mooring element and a conical recess with a slight slope in which a compressible core is mounted to a slide exhibiting a cavity for housing of the electric conductor or its carrying cable. The slide has an outside shape complementary to that of the recess of sleeve and which can be wedged by sliding in the latter. At least one longitudinal portion of the wall of cavity the central core, provided for housing the carrying cable of conductor and, preferably, each of the two diametrically opposite longitudinal portions of this cavity, consists of a metal bar inserted in this wall and whose free face is provided with teeth.

Abstract: The pin vise is usable in connection with guidewire of the type used in medical applications, i.e., for guiding catheters. The pin vise is constructed from two parts which are assembled together to provide a handle over a guidewire.

Abstract: Wedge sockets are among the simplest devices for anchoring a wire rope for any purposes. They are intended for "on the job" attachment and for quick rope replacement. Principal advantages are simplicity, ease and speed of applying and detaching. Wedge sockets are commercially available and an information article on wedge sockets appears in attachment "A", "Wire Rope Rigging Manual", pages 45 and 46. The most commonly used wedge socket is believed represented by that information appearing on pages 34 and 39 of The Crosby Group catalog, a copy attached hereto as Exhibit "B". Also of interest is the Bulletin TGS-2 of Sauerman Brothers Inc., which is attached hereto as Exhibit "C". The following U.S. Pat. Nos. are noted:3,905,711; 3,351,986; and 4,602,891.

Abstract: A cord lock is composed of only two component parts, namely a one-piece socket molded of synthetic resin and having a pair of resilient flaps, and a one-piece plug molded of synthetic resin and having a wedge-shaped end portion engageable with the resilient flaps and coacting with the latter for urging the plug axially upwardly under the resiliency of the resilient flaps.

Abstract: An adjustable lock for a tether line or the like, which permits one-hand operation and which is incorporated into a clamp to permit the lock to be clamped onto a support, for example, an upright column or railing on a animal grooming table, and which will permit a person to either lengthen or shorten the tether to a suitable length with one hand operation. The lock comprises a bore and an angled cross cam slot in the clamp housing. The bore carries the tether line, and the slot has a roller mounted therein. The slot has an end that intersects the bore and that will pinch or clamp the line in one direction of camming movement, and will release in the opposite direction to permit locking or release of the line by pulling the line in the appropriate direction through the bore.

Abstract: A binding device for rope such as a belt for hanging a bag or a leash for tugging a pet. The rope is passed through into the setting hole of the binding means with a wedge so that the rope is fixedly pressed in the said hole.

Abstract: A cord lock including a body containing a passage through which two cords extend, and a slide received at least partially within the passage and movable relative to the body between a locking position retaining the cords against longitudinal movement and a released position permitting such movement, with the body having a wall defining a side of the passage laterally adjacent one of the cords and containing a slot through which that cord is movable laterally or transversely of its length out of the passage and to the exterior of the body to enable complete detachment of one of the cords from the body when desired.

Abstract: A cord tightening device for tighening cords on anoraks, rucksacks, shopping bags, life jackets, and other bags and pouches includes a body having a pair of spaced face and back plates and a pair of spaced side walls interconnecting the face and back plates. A slider is movably disposed in the body and slidable along a guide groove defined in the face plate. The slider has a retainer for pressing cord portions against the side walls, and has step-like teeth on opposite peripheral surfaces thereof for biting engagement with the cord portions. The face plate may have a pair of cord insertion slots defined therein one on each side of the guide groove and located inwardly of the side walls, respectively, for allowing a cord to be inserted theretrough into the body.

Abstract: A device for hanging a building member contains a gripper adapted to be secured to an anchor member embeded in a ceiling wall of a building, a wire article hanging from and secured to the gripper at its one end, and a second gripper adapted for securing the other end of the wire article and for hanging a building member. The gripper allows the wire article to pass in one direction along the longitudinal direction of the wire article but not in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A cord tightening device for tightening cords on anoraks, shopping bags and other bags includes a hollow body and a slider movably disposed in the body and slidable along a guide groove defined in a face plate of the body. The slider has an annular retainer for pressing cord portions against side walls of the body, and a resilient knob cantilevered to the retainer and normally projecting through the guide groove above the face plate. The cantilevered knob is resiliently flexible toward the back plate to such an extent that the knob is substantially fully received in an aperture in the retainer. With this resilient knob, the slider can smoothly be inserted in and removed from the body without damaging the body.

Abstract: Anchoring means for anchoring tension members, more especially for anchoring tension cable conductors, comprises at least two clamping components in the form of anchoring wedges which are disposed one behind the other on the tension member and are anchored in at least one anchoring member. The moulding which is more remote from the support structure is harder than, or as hard as, the tension member, while the clamping component which is nearer the support structure is softer than the tension member. The tension member is initially tensioned, then the anchoring wedge of the first anchoring member is pressed in position by the insertion of an intermediate member between the first and second anchoring members; meanwhile, the first anchoring member is supported on the second anchoring member by the intermediate member; then the intermediate member is removed, and subsequently the anchoring wedge of the second anchoring member is pressed in position by the first anchoring member.

Abstract: A door handle arrangement has a bearing member (14) with a door handle bore (43) for mounting to the door leaf and also a door handle with a neck (11) which is axially inserted into the door handle bore (43). Conical segments (18) which are arranged around the neck (11) of the door handle are provided between the bearing member (14) and the neck (11) of the door handle. The conical segments have a conical outer peripheral surface and/or a conical inner peripheral surface, which cooperates in axially sliding manner with a corresponding complementary shaped counter-surface of the bearing member (14) and/or of the rotary spigot (12), and are biased axially by springs (15) in a direction which reduces the diameter of the opening which receives the neck of the door handle.

Abstract: A rope widening apparatus in which a sliding bolt is disposed within the strands of a rope so that a tensile force on the rope draws it and its downstream convex tapered pressing surface toward a concave frustum pressing surface on a case front portion, thus pressing the strands between the two surfaces - the harder the pull on the rope, the harder the strands are pressed between the surfaces. The sliding bolt is configured to utilize the locking phenomenon of tubular interlocking stranded rope to prevent the sliding bolt from moving upstream along the rope.

Abstract: A cord fastener composed of a male member and a female member coupled together against displacement each other since laterally outwardly projecting feet of a pair of resilient legs of the male member is normally held in interlocking engagement with a pair of locking teeth on an inner surface of a hollow tubular body of the female member. For attachment of the cord fastener to a cord, the male member is displaced against the resiliency of the legs until a through-hole in a head of the male member is brought into coaxial alignment with a pair of cord insertion holes in the tubular body, thereby permitting insertion of the cord into such aligned holes. When the male member is released from the downward pressure, the male member is urged upwardly by the resilient forces stored in the legs, whereby the cord is firmly gripped by and between the male and female members against displacement.

Abstract: A strain relief device for resisting strain forces acting in a direction of pull-out of a cable relative to a cable closure, comprises a cable gripping member having at least two complementary jaw-like segments alignable for defining therebetween a tubular through opening sized for gripping a cable of a given diameter therewithin and an outer surface of predetermined configuration. These jaw-like segments have interengageable edge surfaces for defining a maximum inwardly compressed condition of the through opening corresponding to a predetermined limited maximum compression of the given diameter of cable for substantially preventing damage thereto. A generally annular locking member comprises a pair of locking segments defining an inner surface formed for complementary surrounding engagement with the gripping member outer surface and coupling structure for releasably coupling the locking segments together about the gripping member to retain the same in gripping engagement with the cable.

Abstract: A strap connector comprises a connector body and a core. The connector body is formed in a hollow, approximately square pole like shape with openings formed in two opposed sides thereof. The core is provided with a groove part which is of a width approximately equal to the sum of diameters of two pieces of strap and a base part which has an end face a little wider than the width of the groove part and is located away from and facing the opening of the groove part at a distance about equal to the diameter of the strap.

Abstract: An equalizer socket including a socket body, a plurality of grooved wire receiving wedges removably inserted therein and at least one center wedge having a greater taper in bearing contact with the ropes of the grooved wedges, and constraining means associated with the end of the socket body for the center wedge.

Abstract: A cable clamp for temporarily gripping an end length of cable comprises a tubular member having a side slot extending the length of the tubular member to allow a cable to be inserted into and removed from inside the tubular member. Spring means urge a bar situated within the tubular member against cable extending through the tubular member, and a handle extending outside the tubular member allow the user to rapidly clamp and unclamp the cable.

Abstract: A lacing device in which the adjusting and maintaining of the vamp can be conveniently achieved. The device is slidably attached at an appropriate position to a lace such that it can be moved upward or downward as desired.

Abstract: A pair of bands (bands of both sides may be connected at bottom surface) are attached in inverted U-shape along both side surfaces (only one side will do if hand holding condition is not needed) of a large size bag and the like, and a cramping device of an upper portion of the inverted U-shape band is formed in a special adjusting mechanism according to this invention, and when the band is shifted in vertical and horizontal directions against these cramping devices and is fixed, the length and the interval of the shouldering band can be properly adjusted so as to match a physical constitution (height and size of shoulders) of user of bag. After the length and the interval are properly adjusted, there is no shift of band at all even if the band is pulled.

Abstract: A simple cord locking device which may also be used for ribbons comprising a sleeve and a slide moveable therein. The latter is manufactured from a rigid plastic material and comprises a head, a body, in which an opening and at least a groove are formed, and a spring formed integral with the body. Within a prismatic outer contour the spring is formed as a web of material extending in zig-zag. The sleeve is formed as a planar box, open at one short side thereof and having openings formed in the long sides thereof.

Abstract: A stopping arrangement for long drawing elements such as ropes exhibiting essentially two parallel, opposing clamping surfaces. The clamping surfaces are so arranged as to pull against one another, so that a pressure is exerted on the drawing element when it is moved in a particular direction, and as to move apart, causing the pressure to reduce, when the drawing element is moved in the opposite direction. The aforementioned clamping surfaces extend essentially in a straight line in their principal sense and are so arranged as to move towards and away from one another in a parallel movement. In this way the drawing element will have imparted to it essentially rectilinear clamping over a certain distance at a uniform clamping force, with one of its clamping surfaces being arranged on an element which is so arranged as to move along an oblique path in relation to the second clamping surface, which is situated on a support component connected to the last-mentioned second clamping surface.

Abstract: A cord retainer assembly constructed of two cooperating parts: a cord holder part and a cord lock part. The cord holder part is molded as a one-piece plastic elongate housing having a tapered nose portion with two spaced apart apertures formed at one end and having a central opening formed at the other end. The cord lock part is formed of a one-piece plastic elongate slider member which is conformably shaped to be slidably disposed within the hollow housing and has a handle portion which extends outwardly of its central opening. The slider member is formed with a pair of laterally extending gripping teeth for selectively restraining a length of cord which is threaded through the housing. The slider member is releasably latched within the housing member by a ratcheting mechanism composed of a plurality of serrated teeth formed longitudinally along an inside surface of the housing which mate with a second plurality of serrated teeth formed longitudinally along the slider member.

Abstract: An endotracheal tube holder has a cord with a loop through which the endotracheal tube extends. A tube with slits surrounds the cord adjacent the loop to secure the endotracheal tube in the cord when the tube is placed in the mouth and throat of the patient. The remaining portions of the cord extend over the ears and under the chin of the patient. A lockable collar is positioned on the cord to tighten the cord under the chin so as to position and retain the endotracheal tube in the patient.

Abstract: An arrangement for gripping end regions of an elongated flexible element extended between support surfaces, comprises a casing having an interior passage, and an inner conically-shaped wall, and a movable sleeve mounted for axial movement relative to the casing. The sleeve has an axial channel through which the element is inserted, an outer conically-shaped body, and at least one radial hole in the outer body. At least one gripping member is mounted in the radial hole of the sleeve. The radial dimension of the gripping member is larger than the radial length of the radial hole. The gripping member is movable from a non-gripping position in which the gripping member is located outside the channel, to a gripping portion in which the gripping member is pushed by the inner wall to extend into the channel for gripping the inserted end region of the element.

Abstract: A telephone security clamp for preventing removal of modular telephone equipment which is electrically connected by its modular jack to a modular socket. The security clamp includes a wedge which is inserted beneath the release tang of the modular jack. The tang is thereby blocked and prevented from being depressed to thereby prevent removal of the jack from the socket. A housing clamps the wire directly adjacent the wedge and thereby prevents access to the wedge. The wedge and housing can be integrally formed of unitary construction.

Abstract: An apparatus for stretching, loosening, and fixing a wire member includes a grasping member for grasping an end of the wire member, a displacing member for displacing the grasping member so as to stretch/loosen the wire member in the longitudinal direction thereof, a fixing member having a wedge receiving face, and a wedge member disposed axially between the fixing member and the grasping member. The wedge has a wedge face tapering toward the wedge receiving face of the fixing member and is divided circumferentially into a plurality of parts. A pushing member pushes the wedge member toward the wedge receiving face of the fixing member, and a holding member holds the wedge member away from the fixing member when the wire member is stretched/loosened by the displacing member.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shim having a quite simple and easily operable shape and is used for a cable clamp composed of a wedge-like member and a sleeve-like member, those members being telescopically assembled to clamp a cable therebetween. Said sleeve-like member is linked with said shim through a simple and low cost means.

Abstract: A device for splicing together aerial drop wires and comprising: (a) a housing shell having a throughpassage (b) a partition dividing such passage into two channels with outer ramp walls causing the channels to have respective wide openings at opposite ends of the passage and narrow openings at the other ends of the channels, (c) insulating piercing terminals projecting from the partition into these channels and adapted to electrically splice together conductor inserted through the narrow openings into the channels, and (d) wedges drivable through the wide openings to press the drop wires against the terminals and then squeeze the drop wires between the partition and the wedges, is characterized by the following improvements. The wedges are smooth surfaced on their sides which contact the drop wires. Different size wedges are provided to accommodate different size drop wires in the channels. Affixed to the partition are ribs projecting into the channels at their wide ends.

Abstract: The invention provides an anchorage device for a cable with multiple strands (2) comprising a block (1) in which the strands are anchored individually by radially clamping about each strand a split truncated cone shaped jaw (3) surrounding this strand and housed in a complementary housing (4) of the block. This device comprises a single thrust member (6) disposed axially opposite the different jaws (3) and a plurality of spacers (10) each interposed axially between said member (6) and a jaw (3) about the strand end (2) clamped by this jaw, said spacers (10) being identical to each other, formed from a metal or an alloy whose deformation/stress characteristic has a long plastic flow plateau and dimensioned so that at the end of the thrust the deformation of each of them has reached, but not exceeded, the plastic flow stage thereof.

Abstract: The device comprises a base (1) having an opening and a tapered orifice (7) in the interior. A conical body (8) is housed within the tapered orifice, the conical body (8) consisting of two elements (10) which form a central threaded opening (9). The elements (10) resist longitudinal displacement but are capable of radial displacement. The elements (10) are identical and each one of them is provided with a recess and a projection so that they can engage with each other. The device also comprises a spring and a closure head (14).

Abstract: A molded plastic cord lock is formed of a molded generally rectilinear housing having a recess, and transverse through holes in the sides of the housing; and a molded insert having an integral plunger portion and W-shaped spring portion to be slidably received in the housing recess. The plunger has a through hole which is coincident with the housing side through holes with the plunger depressed and the spring compressed for receiving a cord to be locked between the plunger and the housing. Stop elements are formed on the plunger to snap fit into the respective housing through holes.

Abstract: A ball stop is locked to a cable by inserting the cable through an opening in the ball. The ball is then rigidly clamped in place by a wedge which is inserted into the aperture surrounding the cable and threads in the aperture and on the external part of the wedge mate and are screwed together to cam the wedge into frictional engagement with the cable.

Abstract: Clamping means for a strap comprises a support member having a concave surface and a guide member having a convex surface. The guide member is pivotally mounted on the support member for angular movement between a first position in which the concave and convex surfaces are spaced apart by a distance greater than the uncompressed thickness of the strap and a second position in which the concave and convex surfaces are spaced apart by a distance less than the uncompressed thickness of the strap. The guide member further comprises a lobe so positioned in relation to the convex surface that the length of the path of the strap extending from a first predetermined location, round the lobe and between the concave and convex surfaces (24, 48), to a second predetermined location decreases as the guide member pivots from its first position to its second position.

Abstract: A sealing device comprising a synthetic resin case having a hollow portion, a synthetic resin string holder accommodated in the hollow portion and a string. When the opening portion of a coin containing bag is placed into a double loop portion of the string extending through the case and opposite ends of the string is then pulled, the opening portion of the bag is gathered up, and intermediate portions of the string are held by the holder within the case to seal the bag.

Abstract: A device for providing a clamping joint comprises two elements (1,2) with complementary threads, each having a flange constituting a clamping surface. Clamping takes place upon relative axial displacement of the elements (1,2) which can be brought about by screws (4) arranged axially in bores in a flange (5) on one element. In order to prevent accidental disengagement of the elements, at least one of the threads adjoins at one end to a part (6) which is wedged against an opposing thread flank when the elements (1,2) are rotated in relation to each other over a predetermined end position.

Abstract: A drop wire clamp is provided for suspending a coaxial cable drop wire or the like. The clamp is of molded plastic resin material comprising a body having converging clamping surfaces on the interior thereof, and a two part wedge having external tapered surfaces engageable with the body converging clamping surfaces to wedge the two parts of the wedge together. The two parts of the wedge have confronting surfaces defining a channel for gripping a cable. The channel undulates transversely longitudinally thereof, and a pair of smaller adjacent, parallel channels of similar undulating construction are provided on either side of the first-mentioned channel for gripping a messenger wire. An extension of the body is provided with an eyelet for hanging over a hook or the like.

Abstract: A securing device is disclosed for use in conjunction with a rope or like article to secure the positioning thereof. The securing device is coarsely adjustable to establish the maximum permissible spacing between a pair of clamping plates when the device is in an open position. The clamping plates are configured to allow dual sections of rope to be received through the securing device between the plates while the device is in the open position, with the rope being engageable with the plates at a plurality of points when in the closed position. A camming unit is mounted adjacent to the outside surface of one plate, with the camming unit having a cam surface, that acts in conjunction with the adjacent plate, and an actuating lever, the positioning of which establishes the open and closed positions of the lever and device.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a stopper for a wire cable or a wire rope. It comprises to channels, two jaws moveable with respect to each other in the two channels and two wedges for moving the jaws. There are no gears for moving the jaws. With the movement of the wedges partially out of the channels the wedges force the jaws toward each other so as to clamp the wire cable or wire rope.

Abstract: A traction block is provided comprising an elongate frame with U shaped cross section having a flat web and two spaced apart lateral flanges perpendicular to the web, two clamping blocks of elongate shape which are mounted for movement between the lateral flanges of the frame so that a relative longitudinal movement between each movable clamping block and the adjacent flange of the frame causes a transverse movement of the respective movable clamping block, and a flat cover plate parallel to the web of the frame and detachably fixed thereto, said lateral flanges of the frame being provided with tenons which project from their end faces facing towards the cover plate and which are tightly fitted in corresponding cavities in the cover plate.

Abstract: A sailing craft having hydrodynamically shaped catamaran hulls and tapered configuration rudder assemblies attached to each hull. Low draft keels are attached to the fore one-half bottom portions of the hull and a pitch-sensitive variable camber mast and main sail assembly is rotatably mounted on a cross-beam framework which interconnects the two hulls. The mast is constructed and rigged to bow with respect to the longitudinal plane of the sailing craft which passes through the roll axis in response to a high velocity wind force. The bow decreases as the wind velocity decreases and the mast rotates to form a camber adjustment through use of battens attached to the main sail sheet(s). The rudder assembly and control bungy cords and lines permit selective raising and lowering and automatic raising upon contact with underwater obstacles. The deck structure provides for quick dismantling and ease of sailing.

Abstract: A socket-wedge connection for wedge-type rope socket wherein a multi-part wedge is employed having one part collapsible, finding advantageous use, for example, in the lines employed with excavating equipment.

Abstract: A socket-wedge connection for wedge-type rope socket wherein a multi-part wedge is employed having one part collapsible, finding advantageous use, for example, in the lines employed with excavating equipment.