Ships – Bitts – cleats – and pin rails
Patent
1987-09-10
1988-08-30
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Ships
Bitts, cleats, and pin rails
24134R, 24134P, B63B 2104
Patent
active
047668350
ABSTRACT:
A rope cleat includes a rectangular plastic bottom plate and a nesting sheet steel top plate. Bolt holes in the corners of the plates allow bolts to retain the plates together and to mount the cleat onto a mounting surface. A pair of cam spindles and back-to-back rope abutments, integral to the bottom plate, protrude through matching cam spindle openings and rope abutment openings in the top plate.
The edge of each cam spindle opening is rounded upward into a cam spindle boss to support the cam spindle. A cam, with rope gripping teeth on its rise, rotates on each cam spindle, is retained thereon by a washer and self tapping screw, and is biased by a C-shaped leaf spring.
The front of each rope abutment also has rope gripping teeth. The back of each rope abutment is reinforced by a boss, bent upward from the top plate to leave the rope abutment opening. Each boss is strengthened by a vertical crimp, the apex of which supports and is supported by the apex of the crimp in the other boss.
A footed retaining loop on the rope tension side of the cleat prevents the cleat from prematurely releasing the rope. The loop penetrates a slot in the top plate, and the top plate retains the feet of the loop in grooves in the bottom plate.
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Myer Jimmy
Randall Richard C.
Sanford William R.
Brahan Thomas J.
Fowler Allan R.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Randall Richard C.
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