Patent ID: 7716800

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a cable anchoring jaw formed of an assembly of a number N of wedges, comprising: forming a bore of a generally cylindrical shape in a single-piece component; performing N cuts in the single-piece component from its periphery along radial planes to form N radial slots delimiting N angular segments of the single-piece component, at least N−1 of the cuts being interrupted before reaching the bore in order to leave bridges joining the segments at a bottom of corresponding slots; subjecting the single-piece component thus obtained to a hardening treatment; and forcing apart the N segments in order to break the bridges, each wedge of the jaw being obtained from one of the segments, wherein the interrupted cuts are performed so as to impart to each bridge a surface, directed towards the corresponding slot, of which at least a portion is inclined relative to a direction perpendicular to a radial plane of the slot so that the bridge breaks at a determined position along the direction.