Patent ID: 6119632
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: A01K,D07B

Abstract:
A cattle roping lariat rope body having a critical length portion beginning at a honda end of the rope body that is at least about 68 percent of the total length of the rope body and a non-critical length portion in the remainder of the length of the rope body, the critical length portion being that portion of the rope body which will be formed into a lariat loop and the throwing portion of the rope body the rope body comprising:a) a core in a center portion of a cross section of only the critical length portion and extending the full length thereof, the core comprising cabled monofilament yarns with the total denier of the monofilaments in the core being at least about 30,000,b) three or more twisted strands wound around the core in the critical length portion and twisted around each other in the non-critical length portion to form a rope structure, each strand containing twisted monofilament yarns throughout its cross section, andc) a wax among at least some of the monofilaments in at least some of the yarns.