Patent ID: 7229043

Claim:
A method of adjusting a non-compressible sign supporting cable holding a sign carrier from an overhead support, said cable having a certain diameter, said method comprising: attaching an upper end of said non-compressible cable to said overhead support; attaching a lower end of said non-compressible cable to said sign; forming an annular hub with a first end and a second end; arranging a generally rigid, radially outwardly extending flange on each end of said hub, each of said radially outwardly extending flanges having an outer peripheral yieldable lip spaced apart from said outer peripheral lip of the other of said flanges by a distance less than twice said certain cable diameter; wrapping or unwrapping an entering or upper end of said cable about said hub and extending an exiting or lower end of said cable exiting from said hub between said radially outwardly extending flange, said entering end and said exiting end of said cable being 180 degrees out of phase with one another as in a straight line so as to permit the simple adjustment of the length of said cable supporting said sign carrier.