Patent ID: 7231957
Filing Date: 2007-06-19
Classification: B22D,B23K

Abstract:
1. A method for forming a connection to a mining dragline having a solid termination on a wire rope comprising: providing a mold with a mold opening and a mold cavity; inserting a wire rope into the mold opening; flowing a liquefied material into the mold cavity; allowing the liquefied material to harden thereby creating the solid termination having a flat concentric thrust exerting surface aligned with the wire rope, joined to the wire rope; removably affixing a plurality of axially aligned frustroconical sections adjacent the wire rope; providing a flat thrust receiving surface on each frustroconical section at an approximate right angle to an axis of the wire rope; abutting the flat concentric thrust exerting surface of the solid termination against the flat thrust receiving surface of each frustroconical section; inserting the plurality of axially aligned frustroconical sections into a frustroconical receiver; providing a connector in which the frustroconical receiver resides wherein the connector and solid termination are of a combined weight of between about 1500 pounds and 2800 pounds; and wherein; the wire rope has a diameter of between about 4 inches and about 7 inches.