US1438993A

US1438993A - Method of making handles for ropes

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Publication number: US1438993A
Application number: US498967A
Authority: US
Inventors: William H Fullington
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-09-07
Filing date: 1921-09-07
Publication date: 1922-12-19
Anticipated expiration: 1939-12-19

Description

Dec. 19, 1922;

v w. H. FULLINGT ON. I METHOD OF MAKING HANDLES FOR ROPESf FILED SEPT, 7, I921.

Patented Dec. 19, 19232.

rinses METHOD OF MAKING HANDLES Eon ROPES.

Application filed September 7, 1921. Serial No. 498,967.

1/ all whom it may concern Be it known that l, (inmost H. FULpInG- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and 5 State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of ft Taking Han lles for Hopes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to skipping ropes,

and involves or includes a new process of,

making the handles thereof, and altho particularly adapted for making skipping ropes it is applicable to other ropes where It 18 desired to form an enlargement or bound portion at the end or the rope.

In making skipping ropes, and in staying the ends of a rope, it is common to wind the rope with a binding of small cord. This Is done atter the rope is made. By the present 20 invention the binding is accomplishedun an operation continuoijls with the formation ot the rope.

The invention is illustrated in the accoz-npanying drawings in which Figure l. is a plan of a completed ropc. l 3 and are views showing the rope in the procoss ot constructimi. Fig. '1'; is a section on the line 4E iof Figs. 2 and 3. Figs. 5 and are sections onthe lines 5-5 and (36 of Figs. l and 3 respectively.

The manner of making the rope isas follows:

A rope consisting of tour (or any othcr plural number) of strands is twisted in the usual manner, and of these strands three are indicated at 6 in the drawings, and these strands form the completeorstanding part i of the rope after it is completed. The fourth strand, which is indicated at 7, forms the handles. This strand, after all the strands are twisted together is severed at the middle of the rope, as indicated in Fig. 2, and then the ends of this severed strand are forced back or outwardly over the remainingil'hree 4,5 strands by a pressing action parallel to the axis of the rope, which'results in the strand 7 being fulled up to the form of a coil,

and these coils constitute the enlargement or handles, when they are pressed'or stripped out to the ends of the rope. In Fig. 2 the strand I is shown at the commencement of this operation, having been cut to make two free ends, and in Fig. the process is shownpartly completed, the coils being forced outwardly toward the ends of the rope, the strand being picked up from the twisted rope and assuming the form of a closed coil which gathers additional windings as it approaches the ends of the rope until it is v finally stopped at said ends as by metal rings or fastenings 10 at the ends, The completed coil or winding i indicated at 7 in Fig. 1, and thefree ends thereof may be spliced into the standing strands 6 or otherwise fastened by any convenient device to prevent unwinding. The coil or winding thus produced forms a very convenient flexiblehandle and also acts to bind the ends of the rope. The operation may be rather quickly performed by stripping the severed strands along the rope until it falls up to the completed coils at the ends.

1. A rope consistingof a plurality of strands, one of said strands being severed and fulled up to form a binlfling coil at the end of the rope.

2. A skipping rope composed. of a plurality of strands, one of said strands being severed and failed up in the form of coils around the ends of the rope, thereby forming handles.

3. The method of forming a binding at the end of a rope, comprising severing one of the strands of the rope and fulling the same up in the form of a coil at the end of the rope.

4E. The method of making handles for a skipping rope, comprising severing one of the strands of the rope and falling the sections of said strand up to opposite ends of the rope, forming close coils around the remaining strands of the rope at said ends.

5. The method of making a skipping rope, comprising twisting a plurality of strands together, severing oneof said strands, at about the middle of the rope, and falling up the severed sections of said strand 't'rom the middle toward the ends of the rope, thereby forming coils around the ends of the rope, said coils serving as handles.

6. The method of binding the end of a In testimony whereof, I do afiix my signature 1n presence of two WltIlGSSQS WILLIAM H. FULLINGTON.

Witnesses:

JOH A. BOMMHARDT,

EDWARD J. HoBDAY.