Patent ID: 7540070

Claim:
A terminated bungee cord, comprising: a molded base; a single piece of wire sharply folded over at about its middle forming a double strand of wire having two legs aligned in mutually parallel relationship, said double strand of wire being bent, beginning at a distal end of said double strand at the sharply folded middle of the wire, into substantially a semi-circle to form a double strand hook portion, the proximal end of said hook portion being contiguous with two substantially straight shanks of said double strand of wire, the ends of said double strand of wire being molded into said base; and a bungee cord having an end with a transverse pin piercing the bungee cord substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the bungee cord, with ends of the pin extending beyond the bungee cord, said end of the bungee cord and said pin molded into said base.