Patent ID: 7165296
Filing Date: 2007-01-23
Classification: F16B,G09F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A flexible material clamp assembly comprising: a triangular bar having a base and two major inclined surfaces meeting at an acute angle, the length of the major surfaces being at least three times the height of the base and representing approximately 90% of the bar's surface area; a clamp having an internal triangular channel slightly larger than the triangular bar but congruent to it, one end of said clamp having an opening into an apex of the channel and at least one side of the clamp being open to the triangular channel; one end of the flexible material being wrapped about said triangular bar and overlapped upon itself, said wrapped bar being inserted into said channel through said at least one open side of the clamp with the flexible material passing through the clamp opening at the apex of the channel; and tensioning means for causing the clamp and bar to move relative to one another to thereby firmly lock the flexible material between the major surfaces of the triangular bar and the corresponding major surfaces of the triangular channel thereby locking the flexible material in the channel.