Patent ID: 6470664
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: A01K,D07B

Abstract:
The method of making a lariat rope body wherein three or more strands comprised of a plurality of twisted, plied and/or cabled monofilament yarns are wound around a core to form a rope structure, the core being in at least a critical portion of the rope structure, at a winding site, the core being comprised of a plurality of monofilaments, the total denier of the monofilaments in the core being at least about 30,000, the winding taking place while said strands are under tension and while a portion of each of the strands is under compression at the winding site, each strand being made by twisting a bundle of said monofilament yarns under tension throughout the length of each strand during the winding, the strands are wound around each other in any portion of the rope containing no core, the critical portion of the rope structure being at least about 68 percent of the total length of the rope structure, securing each end of the rope structure to prevent the rope structure from unwinding, removing the rope structure from the winding site and submerging the rope structure in a hot, molten wax for a period of time to allow the molten wax to penetrate the strands, removing the hot, wax-penetrated rope structure and holding it straight while it is allowed to cool to form a lariat rope body.