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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
GEORGE W. CAMERON, OF HONDO, TEXAS.
ROPE-CLAMP.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Apr. 30,1912.
Original application filed June 10, 1911, Serial No. 632,362. Divided and this application filed August 14,
1911. Serial No. 643,977.To all whomit may concern:
Be it known that I, GEoRGE W. CAMERON,
a citizen of the United States, residing at
Hondo, in the county of Medina and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and
useful Improvements in Rope-Clamps, of
which the following is a specification.
This application is a division of my pend-
ing application, Serial No. 632,362, filed
10 June 10, 1911, the same disclosing 'a cotton
press in which the plunger is operated by a
windlass, the driving means of which latter
are automatically reversed at regular inter-
vals to advance and retract the plunger.
15 The present invention relates more par-
ticularly to the rope clamp carried by the
crosshead of the plunger, the purpose being
to provide a simple and efficient connection;
and to this end the invention consists in a
20 novel construction and arrangement of parts
to be hereinafter described and claimed.
In the accompanying drawing forming a
part of this specification, Figure 1 is an ele-
vation of a fragment of the press showing
25 the application of the invention. Fig. 2 is
a vertical section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of the clamp herein-
after referred to. Fig. 4 is a plan view of
said clamp.
30 Referring specifically to the drawing, 5
denotes the press box in which the cotton
or other material is compressed by a recip-
rocating plunger 6. The plunger is carried
by stems 7 depending from a crosshead 8
35 which works between vertical guides 9.
The guides are connected across at the top
by beams 10.
Above the press box are arranged cross
timbers 11 which carry bearings 12 in which
40 is journaled a shaft 13. These timbers also
support the guides 9. On the shaft 13 is
mounted a drum 14 around which latter is
wound several times a cable 15. One end
of this cable passes over a pulley 16 carried
45 by the beams 10, and then extends down-
wardly and is made fast to the crosshead 8.
The other end of the cable extends upwardly
from the drum and is made fast to the
crosshead. The pulley 16 is carried by a
50 hanger 17 provided with a threaded stem
18 on which is screwed an adjusting nut 19
for the purpose of keeping the cable taut
on the drum.The following means are provided for
connecting the two ends of the cable to the 56
crosshead: On the crosshead is mounted a
casting which is in the shape of a pair of
disks 20 placed side by side, and projecting
sidewise therefrom are flanges 21 provided
with perforations to receive bolts or other 60
fastening means 22 whereby they are se-
cured to the crosshead. The peripheries of
the disks are grooved to receive the cable,
one end of the latter being passed around
one of the disks, and the other end being 65
passed around the other disk. The ends of
the cable are made fast by being clamped to
the disks. The cable-clamping means coin-
prise shoes 23 having a grooved face, said
shoes being carried by plates 24. One of 70
the shoes is opposite the periphery of one of
the disks and the other shoe is opposite the
other disk, and said shoes are located, re-
spectively, above and below the disks. The
plates 24 are slidably mounted on stems 25 75
which pass through perforations 26 in the
flanges 21. The ends of the stems are
threaded to receive nuts 27 which are adapt-
ed to be screwed against the plates for the
purpose of advancing the shoes to clamp the 80
ends of the cable to the respective disks.
The drum shaft 13 is driven by a mecha-
nism which is automatically reversed at
regular intervals in order to impart a recip-
rocatory motion to the plnnger 6. This 85
mechanism has not been illustrated in the
present case as it forms the subject-matter
of the previous application referred to.
I claim:
1. A cable clamp comprising a pair of 90
disks having grooved peripheries to receive
the ends of a cable, attaching flanges ex-
tending laterally from the disks, stems car-
ried by the flanges on opposite sides of said
pair of disks, plates slidably mounted on 95
the stems, between which plates the disks
are located, shoes carried by the plates op-
posite the peripheries of the disks, one of the
shoes being opposite the periphery of one
of the disks and the other shoe being oppo- 100
site the periphery of the other disk and
means for adjusting the plates to engage
the shoes with the ends of the cable and
clamp the same to the disks.
2. A cable clamp comprising a pair of 105
disks having grooved peripheries to receive1,024, 974.
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Cameron, George W. Rope-Clamp, patent, August 14, 1911; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth510625/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.