US2151664A

US2151664A - Rope fastener

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Publication number: US2151664A
Application number: US203988A
Authority: US
Inventors: Redfield Erwin Lee
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1938-04-25
Filing date: 1938-04-25
Publication date: 1939-03-21
Anticipated expiration: 1956-03-21

Description

March 21, 1939; E. 1.; REDFIELD 2,151,664

ROPE FASTENER Filed April 25, 1938 Patented Mar. 21, 1939 UNITED STATES ROPE. FASTENER Erwin Lee Redfield, Cloquet, Minn., assignor to William J. Oswald, Chicago, Ill.

Application April 25,

4 Claims.

The present invention relates generally to devices for securing lines, ropes, cords and the like, and particularly to a device for fastening the end of a clothes line. However, it may be used for tent ropes and many other places where taut lines are necessary.

The general object of the invention is to provide a simple unitary device for binding a rope or line in a quick and easy manner, the binding action being effective when the rope or line is taut.

The general object is attained by the devices shown in the accompanying drawing as the preferred forms thereof to illustrate and explain the nature of the invention. It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to or by the forms specifically illustrated and described.

In the drawing: a

Figs. .1 and? represent perspective views referred to respectively as bottom and top views of a device.

Fig. 3 is a top elevation of the device as used with a rope.

Fig. 4 is a lengthwise section of the device taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Figs. 5 and 6 are respectively side and face views of a modified or double-header device use ful also to splice ropes for a taut splice.

The preferred form of the device is particularly adapted for securing the ends of clothes lines, and for that purpose it is provided with a construction to render it suitable for removably hanging it on a hook. In the drawing this form is an elongated metal body, such as of cast aluminum, having two ends, two faces, and two lateral edges. It has a body portion ill, a post portion l i, a hook or lock-portion l2, and an abutment or binding portion l3. These are arranged along the device from one end in the order l2, l3 and ll. The post H is formed by utilizing a side edge portion of the casting and by providing a hole I4 therein.

The hole l4 extending from face-to-face, forms a similar post 55 at the opposite side edge of the casting, so that the device illustrated provides alternative posts, only one of which functions at a time for one rope or line. The provision of two posts strengthens the structure. The hole I4 permits threading a rope or line through it, and knotting the end, so that the device is always attached to and carried by the rope to be available for use and to avoid loss.

The abutment or binding portion I3 is provided by an offset construction which provides an abutment surface "5 preferably at an angle to the plane of the two posts, said abutment extending 1938, Serial No. 203,988

generally transversely of the device from post-topost. A rope may be wrapped around a post so that a portion of the length at the free end after leaving the post lies against the abutment area [6 and is held thereto by a portion of the rope lying taut over it crosswise.

The hook or looking portion 12 is provided by forming a recess I! from one side edge of the device to make a hook-like end over which the taut portion of the rope passes, in order to hold it in position to hold the taut portion of the rope before it passes around a post to bind a free portion of the rope on the surface it after the rep passes around the post.

In use the rope 20 passes over the hook or look ii at the designated top of the device. The various portions of the rope are separately designated, as for example where it passes over hook l2, it is designated 2!. The portion 22 passes through recess H to the underside of the device. The rope at 23 passes on through recess or hole Hi again to the top side of the device and at 24 around post H to the underside of the device in such a way that the rope at 25 lies against the abutment or binding surface it and under rope portion 23. A knob 26 is shown at the end of the rope.

For hanging the device to a hook (not shown) a hole 21 or other suitable means may be provided.

In Figs. 5 and 6 a device is shown in which the essential parts above described are duplicated at both ends of a device. This device may be used like that of Fig. i, or may be used for splicing ropes. The device has a body 30 with a so-called back-bone 3! extending from end-to-end, the central portion 32 of which provides the post. The back-bone is offset by a curved structure centrally to provide the binding portions or abutments or

shoulders

33 and 34, which are formed in part in the back-bone and extended by

lateral projections

35 and 36 from the back-bone. At the ends of the device there are

lateral projections

31 and 38 which provide the locks, and these are preferably tipped with a hook-

structure

39 and 40 to assure retention of the rope in the recesses designated 4| and 42, or to provide a hooked end for hanging the device on a ring (not shown).

By use of this structure as illustrated, two

ropes

43 and 44, with

free ends

45 and 46, may be pieced together.

It is to be understood that various modifications and changes may be made within the scope of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A fastening device for rope and the like comprising a substantially fiat rigid tension-resisting body of elongated form having a portion thereof removed intermediate its ends to provide a post portion extending along the length of the body, said body providing toward one end of the body an abutment extending transversely of the device and laterally of the post in position to lie against a length of rope wrapped around the post as it leaves the post, and at said end of said body a transverse hooked portion for carrying rope from one side of the device to the other over which hook may lie a length of rope before passing around the post, whereby said last mentioned length cooperates with the material forming said abutment to provide a binding closure holding the rope on the abutment.

2. A fastening device for rope and the like com prising a substantially flat tension-resisting backbone element which has an offset intermediate post section around which a rope may be wrapped, the offset forming a shoulder at an end of the post section laterally of the post, means extending said shoulder portion away from the post to form an abutment against which may lie a piece of rope after it leaves the post from such wrapping, and a lateral hooked projection from said back-bone element remote from the post and abutment on the abutment-end of said post over which may pass a length of rope before wrapping about the post, so that said last-mentioned length when taut may pass from one side of the device to the other and lie over that portion of the rope which is against the abutment and bind the rope to said abutment, said binding portion of the rope and the extending means forming a closure for the bound piece of rope.

3. A fastening device for rope and the like comprising a substantially flat tension-resisting back-bone element which has an offset intermediate post section providing two shoulders at the ends of said post section, means extending said shoulders laterally from the post section to provide an abutment at each end of the post laterally of the post, and beyond each abutment from the post a laterally extending part to receive a rope in its passage from one side of the device to the other so that a rope wrapped around the post before aprpoaching the post may lie over said extending part, pass from one side to the other and lie over that section of the rope which lies against the abutment after the rope passes around the post, the binding portion of the rope cooperating with the said extending means to form a closure for the bound piece of rope on said abutment.

4. A fastening device for rope and the like comprising'an elongated generally fiat rigid tensionresisting body having two faces, two ends, and two lateral edges, said body having a hole therethrough intermediate the ends from face-to-face, and at one end a recess inwardly from one edge to provide a hook-like end, said hole forming two posts at the edges around any one of which a rope may be wrapped, the body being offset at one face to provide an abutment extending from postto-post at the hooked end of the body and adjacent that end of the hole, said abutment being lateral to each post, the hook being so located as to compel the binding portion of the rope to cooperate with the body portion providing the abutment to form aclosure for the bound piece of rope.

' ERWIN LEE REDFIELD.