An Adjustable Device for Fastening Ropes, Cords, and Twine.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Adjustable Device for Fastening Ropes, Cords, and Twine.
I, MARY HUMPHREYS, of Warwick Road, Hale, Altrincham, in the County of
Chester, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to an adjustable device for fastening ropes cords and
twine.
This device consists of a disc, plate or frame of wood metal or other suitable
material with two holes formed in it through which the free end of the rope is
threaded then passed through or round the fixture or part to which the rope is
to be fastened and back to the disc, plate or frame. The rope is then drawn
tight and the free end is firmly secured by lapping it round once or twice under
the disc plate or frame between it and the rope or otherwise making the free end
of the rope fast, locking the disc on the rope and preventing the threaded portion
of the rope slipping. The other end of the rope may or may not be secured in
a similar manner by a second disc, plate or frame.
The device may be applied to ropes cords and twine of various kinds and
employed for many different purposes.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1897.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
An Adjustable Device for Fastening Ropes, Cords, and Twine.
I, MARY HUMPHREYS, of Warwick Road, Hale, Altrincham, in the County of
Chester, Married Woman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to an adjustable device for fastening ropes cords. and
twine.
This device consists of a disc, plate or frame of wood metal or other suitable
material with two holes formed in it.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings-
Figure 1 shows two views of one form of the device, the upper view being a
longitudinal section.
Figures and 3 are top and underside plans respectively of the device, with a
cord threaded through passed round a fixture and then fastened,

page_text: Figures 4 and 5 are each two views of two alternative constructions of the
device.
Referring first to Figs. 1 to 3,-a designates the disc or plate of metal in which
two holes 6 are stamped or otherwise formed leaving a cross bar or piece c between
them. The free end of a rope d is threaded through the holes or passed into
them through slots indicated by dotted lines Fig. 1 and then passed through or
round the fixture e or other part to which the rope is to be fastened, and thence
back to the disc or plate a. The rope d is then drawn tight as shown in Fig. 3,
and the free end is firmly secured by lapping it round once or twice under the
disc or plate a between it and the rope d or otherwise making the free end of
the rope fast, locking the disc or plate a on the rope, and preventing the threaded
portion of the rope slipping. The other end of the rope d may or may not
be secured in a similar manner by a second device like the disc or plate a.
In the alternative construction illustrated by Fig. 4 the device is made in
two parts a separate cross bar e being hinged to the frame a, and in the other
alternative construction illustrated by Fig. 5, the cross piece c instead of being
hinged is fitted in slideways a¹ on the frame a.
In each case (Figs. 4 and 5) the cross bar or piece c being movable the rope d
may be doubled and passed partly through the frame and the cross piece e then
placed under it to divide it as in Fig. 2, the mode of securing the free end of the
rope being the same as that already described.
A novel feature and one of the chief advantages obtained by the use of the
device is that the free end of the rope can be fastened without slackening the
tension on any other part of the rope which consequently remains or may remain
at full stretch and further the rope can be quickly and easily released.
The device may be made of metal, wood or other suitable material, it may be
applied to ropes, cords and twine of various kinds and may be employed for
many different purposes.
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Various alternative or modified constructions may be employed without departing
from the essential feature of the device which consists in a disc, plate or frame
having two holes in it or a single hole divided into two holes by a movable cross
bar or piece the rope passing from one side of the disc plate or frame through one
hole and returning to the same side through the other hole.
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:-
1. An adjustable device for fastening ropes, cords and twine, said device con-
sisting of a disc, plate or frame having two holes in it or a single hole divided
into two holes by a movable cross bar substantially as and for the
herein set forth.
purposes
2. The several constructions substantially as herein shown and described for
the purposes specified.
Dated this 31st day of Decamban 1007
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.