Textiles: spinning – twisting – and twining – Apparatus and processes – Splicing
Patent
1978-06-28
1979-03-06
Petrakes, John
Textiles: spinning, twisting, and twining
Apparatus and processes
Splicing
57 35, B65H 6906
Patent
active
041423534
ABSTRACT:
A marine rigging apparatus for splicing new wire cable of the type having twisted wire strands to a portion of worn wire cable taken from a rotatable drum on a fishing vessel docked or moored adjacent a dock, said apparatus including a motor vehicle having a base mounted thereon, at least one bearing mounted on the base, at least one drum rotatably supported by the bearing, a hydraulic motor operatively connected to the drum for rotating the drum to wind the worn cable onto the drum, a rigger's vise mounted on the base for clamping portions of cables to be spliced with the cables being restrained against rotation about the axes of the cables, and a twister device mounted on the base for rotating one of the cables in a direction opposed its natural twist to relieve the tension in the strands of the cable at a desired location on the cable to permit an efficient and quick splicing of the other cable to the twisted cable.
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Bruce Wayne M.
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