Sept. 7 , 1926.
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_R. E. CLISBY
ROPE TYING 'OR BINDING DEVICE
Filed June 5, v1925
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Patented Sept.‘ 7, 1926.
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' , Application ?lved" June a, 1925. seriai'no. 34,617.
’The present improved deviceis designed’ of"kink'1, 'i.“ e. to the transverse plane of the
for use wherever a rope or equivalent flex recess, and slightly inclined with respect tov
ible cable requires to be secured in the form the median aXis' a—a of such kink.
' of a loop, the object being to avoid the ne
In use, one end 3a of the rope is threaded
cessity of tying a knot in the rope. At the successively through eyes 5, 5, and then af
same time the portions of the ropev secured ter being looped about a bar 6 or other ob
together to form such loop may be readily j ect to which the rope is to be attached, such
adjusted whenever it is desired to vary the end is passed through the opening 2 and the
size of the loop or shift its location along portion of the rope that lies opposite such
the rope. It is deemed unnecessary to more opening. The relation of the parts of the
than indicate the extent of the field in which device is such that such oppositely lying
such device may be used. Thus, while orig portion of the rope will likewise be kinked
inally designed for the purpose of securing and accordingly upon a longitudinal pull
to a cross bar or branch of a tree a rope being exerted on the main body of the rope,
from whlch a _SW1I10' may be suspended, the the effect is to press the portion of the end
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, device is equally adaptable for use with so 3“ thus received in opening 2 forcibly against
called tow ropes whereby one automobile the kinkl. At the same time the reaction
may be hitched to another.
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causes the rope to be bound in the eyes or
To the accomplishment of the above indi openings 5 in the respective end portions
cated and other related objects, the inven .of the device, with the result that neither
tion then consists of the means hereinafter portion of the rope thus engaged in the de
fully described and. particularly pointed. vice can slip past the other and the stronger
out in the claims, the annexed‘ drawing and the pull, the more tightly such portions are
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the following description setting forth in pressed together.
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detail certain mechanism embodying the in-. By relieving the pull or tension on the
vent-ion, such disclosed means constituting, rope, the pressure thus binding together the
however, but one of various mechanical two portions of the rope'that are held in
forms in which the principle of the inven the device is likewise instantly relieved and
tionmay be used‘.
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either such portion may be easily and free
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In said annexed drawing :——'
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, , 1y slipped through the device in order to
Fig. l'is a side elevation showing the de
adjust either the size of'the loop or the
vice in place on a‘ rope formed into a loop location thereof along the rope. ‘
as above described; vFig. 2 is a side elevation
It has been found in actual test that the
of the same as viewed from the right in Fig. device will hold a loop thus formed out of
1; and Fig. 3 is a plan view and Fig. 4 a a rope from slipping under a strain that
side elevation of the device by itselfon a approaches the breaking point of the rope.
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For example, an ordinary automobile can be
As best shown’ in the detached views‘ stalled when tied to a post through a rope
(Figs. 3 and 4) of the device by itself, such with a loop formed by the device before the
device is preferably fashioned, from stiff 7 loop will slip throughthe latter.
wire or round bar stock. A piece of such
Other modes ofrapplying the principle of
larger scale.
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stock of proper strength and of necessary my invention'may be employed instead of
length (the'strength being, dependent upon the one explained, change being made as re
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the load which may have to be carried by gards the mechanism herein disclosed, pro
the device and the length upon the diameter. vided the means stated by any of the follow-V
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of the rope or cablev with ‘which it is to be ing claims or the equivalent ,of such stated
used) is bent at approximately its mid point means be employed.
to. form‘ a kink 1,the innersides 2 of which
converge so as to provide an opening or re
cess of general V-shape. The width of this
‘ I therefore particularly point out and
distinctly claim as my invention :—
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1. A~ device of the character ‘ described,
opening should be somewhat less than the ‘comprising a body having a wedging recess,
diameter of the ropev 3 to which the device and an eye on each side of such recess in
is to be ?tted (see Fig.2). The respective clined further from the plane of the respec
ends 4, 4, of the device are rebent in opposlte tively nearest wall of the recess.
65 directions so as to form eyes ‘5, 5, that lie in
> 23A device of the character described,
planes disposed at right angles to the plane comprising a body having‘ a recess of‘ gsnn
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eral V-shape and an eye on each side of
such recess inclined further from the plane
of the respectively nearest wall of the recess.
3. A device of the character described,
comprising a section of rod or wire bent at
approximately its mid-point to form a kink
and having its ends rebent in the form of
eyes, such eyes being further inclined from
5 comprising a section of rod or Wire bent to the plane of the respectively nearest arm
form a kink and on either side thereof an of the kink.
Signed by me this ?rst day 01“ June, 1925.
eye inclined further from the plane of the
respectively nearest arm of the kink.
4. A device of the character described,
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CLISBY.
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