Year: 1895

page_text: Date claimed for Patent under Sect. 103 of Act,
being date of first Foreign Application (in 18th Feb., 1895
United States of America),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 13th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov. 1895
United States of America),
Date of Application (in United Kingdom), 13th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov. 1895
1, LOUIS HANSEN, Mechanic, residing at Minneapolis, in the County of
Hennepin, State of Minnesota, one of the States of the United States of America,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying drawings:
My invention has for its object to provide an improved form of line-bulder,
especially adapted for use in holding clothes-lines, electric-wires and other similar
connections and permit the same to be readily removed or applied into working
position on the holder.
To these ends, the invention consists in the novel features of construction
hereinafter fully described and defined in the claims.
In the said drawings, like letters referring to like parts,―
Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing a pair of holders as applied for removably
holding a clothes-line.
Figure 2 is a front side elevation of one of the holders detached.
Figure 3 is an end view of the same.
Figure 4 is a vertical cross section of the holder on the line xx of Figure 2.
Figures 5 and 6 are views, partly in front elevation and partly in vertical section,
on the line of Figures 3 and 4, the said Figure 5 showing the eccentric sheave or
cam in its line releasing position, and Figure 6 showing the same, in its line clamping
or holding position.
a a represent a pair of posts between which the line 6 is assumed to be stretched.
The said posts a, are shown as provided with hooks a', for securing the holders to
the posts in working position. Each holder is composed of a block or body c and
an eccentric sheave or cam d.
The block or body c, has an eye c' or other means, for removably connecting the
holder to the hooks a', or other support, when in working position, a seat c³ for the
eccentric sheave or cam d, a side slot or mouth c³ for entering the line sidewise into
working position, and a guide-lip or flange c, for co-operation with the stem or
handle portion of the block body, to guide the line into the mouth or slot c. The
eccentric sheave or cam d is eccentrically pivoted to the body portion c within the
seat c, by a pivot-bolt d', or in any other suitable way. The body portion c is cut
away to form the sheave-seat c, and this seat is large enough, at the back end, to
permit the sheave or cam d to be inserted into its working position, and is large
enough, at its forward end, to permit the free outward passage of the line. The
sheave or cam d is provided on its periphery with a V-shaped groove having therein
transversely projecting lugs d, which project only part way across the groove from
the respective sides of the same, and are in staggered relation in respect to each

page_text: other. These lugs d, thus arranged, give to the cam or eccentric sheave a stronger
bite on the line when the sheave or cam is in its clamping position.
When the holder is in its idle position, the sheave or cam d will appear
as in Figure 5; and the line may be readily inserted, through the mouth
or side slot c³, into its working position between the sheave and the over-
hanging shoulder of the sheave seat 2. When the eccentric sheave or cam d
is turned into the position shown in Figure 6, it will clamp the line against the
overhanging shoulder of the seat c and firmly hold the cord from being drawn
through the holder under the working strain on the line. Hence, having regard to
the right hand holder, shown in Figure 1, for example, and supposing the left hand
end of the line b to have been already secured, the line may be applied to the right
hand holder and drawn toward the right until taut; and, on then releasing the line
or applying strain to the same, on its working or left hand side, the eccentric
sheave or cam d will be turned into its clamping position, as shown in Figure 6, and
will hold the line properly stretched. Where both ends of the line bare to be
secured by the holders, as shown in Figure 1, the holders will face in opposite
directions, as this arrangement will permit both of the cam sheaves to tighten or
assume their clamping position on the line, by movements toward each other, or
in the line of the working strain on the line.
With this device, it is obvious that a clothes line or other similar flexible cable
or connection may be securely and removably held in working position, and may be
readily put into or taken from the working position or applied to the working
position, at will, without requiring the ordinary threading action through the
sheave block, and without the removal of the holders.
It will, of course, be understood, that while this invention was especially designed
for holding clothes lines, that it is capable of general application, for holding ropes,
wires, or other forms of cables or flexible connections. The word "line," as used
in this Specification and claims is intended to be generic in sense and to cover and
include all kinds of connections adapted to be clamped and held by the said holder.
This kind of a holder would be of special service, for holding wires, which are liable
to stretch or become slack, for any reason, under the service, as it affords a ready
means of taking up the slack.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The line holder, comprising the two-walled cam-block c, and the cam d
eccentrically pivoted between the walls of said cam-block, one of the walls of said
cam-block being slotted at c³, above the cam, and provided with the guide-lip or
flange c', substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A., this 29th day of July 1895.