US961201A - Splicing device. - Google Patents

Description

A. F. ALTHEIDE.

SPLIUING- DEVICE.

APPT-IOATION IILED FEB.7, 1910.

961,201 I Patented June 14,1910.

AUGUST F. ALTHEIDE, 0F MOUNT CARMEL, ILLINOIS.

SPLICING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1910.

Application filed February 7, 1910. Serial No. 542,402.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST F. ALTHEIDE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount Carmel, in the county of Wabash and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Splicing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to splicing tools, and more particularly to rope or cable splicing tools, and has for its object to provide a splicing device designed to take the place of the marline spike of the usual form, and which will be so arranged and constructed that it will not cut the rope and will bring all of the small strands through the main portion of the cable at one time.

Another object is to provide a tool which will not spread the strands of the rope to a greater extent than necessary and thus destroy the formation and the tightness thereof.

In making a splice with a marline spike or any one of the splicing devices of the usual form, it is necessary, when terminating the splice and tucking in the extremities of the strands to separate the main strands of the cable or rope by forcing the splicing tool thereinto, and then to remove the splicing tool and insert the extremity of the strand with the fingers, afterward poking and tucking the end of the strand into the opening with the tool. It will be readily seen that, when the splicing tool is removed from between the strands of the cable, the latter will tend to spring together again, and the insertion of the end of the strand thus made much more difficult.

It is a special object of my invention to overcome this diliiculty, as will be understood from the following description.

In the drawings forming a portion of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, Figure l is a perspective view showing the splicing tool, Fig. 2 is a view showing the present splicing tool in use, Fig. 3 is an edge view, Fig. l is a transverse sec tion through the eye on line 4t of Fig. 1.

Referring now to the drawings, the present splicing tool comprises a handle 5, from the center of which there extends laterally a stem 6, the handle thus extending trans versely of the stem and projecting at oppo site sides of the stem. A flattened tongue 7 is carried by the opposite end of the stem from the handle, and this tongue is curved longitudinally, as shown, and for convenience the concave face of this tongue will I be termed the upper face and the convex face will be termed the lower face.

The tip of the tongue is reduced transversely to a point indicated at 9, and lies in a plane above the plane of the handlef The tongue has a longitudinally extending eye 10 therein and there result spaced side portions 11 and 12.

The stem 6 is of considerably greater width transversely of the handle than it is longitudinally of the handle, which is the exact reverse of the tongue, as shown in the drawings, and it will thus be seen that the stem is of a convenient shape to fit be tween the fingers of the user, the hand being clasped upon the handle. A wedge 13 is formed at the union of the stem and the tongue, the minor portion of this wedge joining the tongue, while its major portion joins the stem.

In use, the handle is grasped as shown in the drawings, and the point 9 is engaged between the strands of a cable to be spliced. The tongue is then forced between the strands, and the extremity of one of the loose strands to be admitted through the main portion of the cable is inserted through the eye 10. The device may then be drawn back from between the strands, and the loose strand will of course be drawn with it.

In some instances it is desirable to force the strands of the main portion of a cable apart to a considerable extent, and when this is necessary, the device is forced between the strands until the wedge portion 13 enters between them, when further forcing of the device will effectually separate the strands.

By reason of the fact that the spaced portions 11 and 12 are in parallel relation throughout their entire length, as shown, a loose strand may be inserted through the eye 10 between the rearward end of the eye and the cable in which the point 9 has been inserted, and the device then pushed through between the strands to carry the loose strand into the desired position. It

will thus be seen that the device may either be used to force the loose strands through the cable, or to draw them back through the cable, as may be desired.

What is claimed is:

1. A splicing tool comprising a flattened tongue having its forward end reduced transversely to form a point, and having a eye formed therein and having its forward longitudinally extending eye formed therein, end sharpened, a stem carried by the rearsaid eye being of uniform Width throughout Ward end of the tongue, and a transversely its entire length, a stem carried by the rearextending handle carried by the stem and 15 Ward end of the tongue and fiattenedjg V projecting oppositely therebeyond. occupy a plane at right angles to the tongue In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, to form a Wedge portion at the union of the in presence of two Witnesses. tongue and stem, and a transversely extend- AUGUST F. ALTHEIDE. ing handle carried by the stem. Witnesses:

2. A splicingtool comprising a flattened LoUIs HUNT, tongue having a longitudinally extending l W. J. TOWNSEND.

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