US141579A - Improvement in metallic rope-clamps - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT CFFICE.

AIME MEHU, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN METALLIC ROPE-CLAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,579, dated August 5, 1873; application filed March 15, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AIME MEHU, blacksmith, of Paris, France, have invented a System of Metallic Lashing, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a clamp in two parts, constructed so as to be readily connected or separated, and adapted to receive the parallel and contiguous portions of a loop of rope or cordage to which the clamp is applied, as a substitute for the usual binding cord or lashing.

Figuresl and2 represent the end of a shroud or stay, e, looped round a metallic eye, D, and laid upon and secured to the main portion by the clamps or metallic lashin gs B, of which there may be any suitable number, according to the length of the overlapping end. Each clamp consists of two sections, A A, each of which is adapted by internal corrugations to receive the strands of the rope, the sections being detachably connected in any suitable manner.

One mode of constructing the clamp is shown in Fig. 3, where each section is of cast metal, with slotted projections a a, which are in line when the sections are together, so that keys 0 0 may be passed through the slots. The keys have recesses near the ends to receive the bent ends of wires 12, which retain the keys in their places, Figs. 1, 2, and 4..

The clamps may be made of malleable metal, in which case the arms a to, Figs. 5 and 6, instead of being slotted are bent, as shown, the keys being passed through the bent ends. When made of iron or other oxidizable metal the clamps are galvanized or tinned.

It will be apparent that the metallic lashin gs may be of various forms, and the sections may be connected in other modes than those shown and described without departing from E. KIRNAND, OHERUT.

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