Patent ID: 7797895

Claim:
A device comprising: an anchor body having a cavity formed in an interior thereof, said cavity having a tapered portion so as to have a wide end opening at one end of said anchor body and a narrow end interior of said anchor body, said cavity having a passageway extending from said narrow end of said tapered portion so as to open at an opposite end of said anchor body, said passageway having a generally constant diameter; a tendon extending into said cavity, said tendon having a sheathing extending at least partially thereover, said tendon having a sheathed portion and an unsheathed portion; a pair of wedges in frictional engagement with said unsheathed portion of said tendon in said cavity of said anchor body; and at least one wedge member engaged with said sheathed portion, the wedge member having a wide end and a narrow end, said wide end being adjacent to said pair of wedges, the wedge member being of a decreasing thickness from said wide end to said narrow end, said wedge member having a portion positioned in said tapered portion of said cavity and another portion extending into said passageway, the wedge member for frictionally retaining an end of said sheathed portion within said passageway.