Patent ID: 6938306

Claim:
A hook for a cable comprising: a finger grip end block having a passage formed therethrough; a solid cable slidably resting in the passage, the cable having a folded end secured by a crimped clip; the passage having a circular inlet duct through which a straightened cable section passes; the passage further having an outlet duct, larger than the inlet duct and receiving the folded cable end; a junction between the inlet and outlet ducts forming a shoulder serving as a stop abutment for the folded cable end when the cable is placed in tension; a rigid flat metal wire having an inverted J-shaped first end section facing the outlet duct, the inverted J-shaped first end section serving as a hook member, and the flat wire having an opposite end section bent into a ring embedded in the finger grip block, around the stop abutment, and located in a plane generally perpendicular to the J-shaped first end section, the ring serving to reinforce the shoulder that serves as a stop abutment; and wherein the ring surrounds said inlet duct in the vicinity of its junction with the outlet duct.