US1268132A - Fastener or tie device. - Google Patents

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1.: LENZEN. FASTENER OR TIE DEVICE. APPLICATION. man DEC. 11. 1911.

Patented June 4, 1918.

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JOHN LENZEN, 0F PATERSON', NEW JERSEY.

FASTENER OB TIE DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June a, 1918.

Application filed December 17, 1917. Serial No. 207,465.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN LENZEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fastener or Tie Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a simple and inexpensive tie device whereby any rope, cord or other flexible line, such as a clothes line, may very easily be drawn up taut and then efiectually secured without forming a knot or tie in the line itself.

The invention consists in a flexible-line fastener or tie device including a tautening head-piece, having loops at its end portions, one adapted to have an end of the line attached thereto and the other afiording a running hitch-hold for the line, and a shank extending from the head-piece, and having at its free end converging portions form ing a line clamp, the line being adapted to be wrapped around the shank between the head-piece and clamp.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 shows a clothes line extended between two supports and having its ends connected by the improved fastener or tie device;

Fig. 2 is a view on a larger scale showing the fastener connecting the ends of the line;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation and Fig. 1 a plan of the fastener;

Fig. 5 is a side elevation and Fig. 6 a plan of a modified form of the fastener.

I preferably form the device of wire, though this is not essential. Suitable heavy wire is the material illustrated in the draw- The head-piece of the device as shown in Figs. 1 to 4: is formed by bending the wire near one end thereof to form a loop a (preferably an open one) therein, and then a suitable distance from loop a bending another loop I) in the wire, loops 0 and b preferabl standing in the same plane and produce by bending the wire in reverse directions. Loop 7) is an open loop.

To form the shank c, the wire is bent from the loop Z) in a direction which is preferably about perpendicular to the plane of the loops a and b; the shank is related to the head-piece, in the front or rear elevation of the device (Fig. 2) about the same as the vertical to the horizontal part of the letter T, so that the shank has a loop to the right and left of it.

The free end of the shank is bent off, as at (Z, and then rebent, as at e, in such manner that (Z 6 form a substantially V-shapcd clamp whose sides are more or less convergent.

The device as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is quite similar to that shown in Figs. 1 to t excepting that the loop a (corresponding to loop a) in this case stands in a plane at an angle to the plane of the loop b.

For a purpose to be indicated the shank is preferably not straight, but is sinuous or undulating. In Figs. 1 to 4, this is acconr plished by making the shank substantially spiral in form; in Figs. 5 and 6 the sinuosities or undulations all lie in the same plane.

In using the device, a loop is formed in one end of the rope A, being engaged with the loop a of the fastener; the end of the line A may be in any other manner, however, attached to loop a. The line having been passed around the pulleys B or other supports, its free end portion is entered in the loop 6, which affords a running hitchhold for said free end portion. Then the free end portion is drawn upon until the line is as taut as required (the device affords a very good purchase for this purpose, it will be observed), whereupon the operator wraps the line one, two or more times around the shank and finally enters it into the clamp, forcing it between its convergent sides 61 6 until a good grip is effected. The security of the hold is insured by wrapping the line around the shank before engaging it in the clamp, and this is obviously augmented by giving the shank a sinuous form. Since the shank projects at an angle from the headpiece of the device, the operator can readily effect the wrapping of the endportion of the line around said shank and the engagement of the line in the clamp without the hand which is gripping said end portion having to let go until the line is securely fastened.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A flexible-line fastener including a tautening head-piece having loops at its end portions, one adapted to have an end of the line attached thereto and the other being an open loop and affording a running hitch hold for the line, and a shank extending from the head-piece and having at its free end convergent portions forming a line clamp, the line being adapted to be wrapped around'said shank between the head-piece and clamp.

52. A flexible-line fastener including a tautening head-piece having loops at its end portions, one adapted to have an end of the line attached thereto and the other being an open loop and afi'ording a running hitchhold for the line, and a sinuous shank extending from the head-piece and having at its free end convergent portions forming a line clamp, the line being adapted to be Wrapped around said shank between the head-piece and clamp.

3. A flexible-line fastener formed of a single piece of wire including a tautening head-piece having loops at its end portions,

one adapted to have an end of the line at- Copies of thin patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G."

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