Attachment device

{
  "publication_number": "US10145448B2",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "B2",
  "title": "Attachment device",
  "abstract": "An attachment device that includes two portions of cord extending from a junction point from which a loop also extends. A locking element brings the portions of cord together at a site other than that of the junction point. The locking element is able to be passed through the loop to close the device on itself and ensure locking. The locking element is also able to slide along the portions of cord, thereby allowing the attachment device to be adjustable.",
  "claims": [
    "1. An attachment device (10) comprising: two rope portions (14, 15) extending from one side of a junction point (13) from which a loop (12) also extends, said loop extending at the other side of said junction point, a locking element (18) joining the rope portions at a location different from the junction point, the loop and said locking element being dimensioned such that the locking element when passed into the loop, closes the attachment device on itself and such that said locking element ensures locking when an interior of a closing loop thus formed by the attachment device closed on itself is put under tension; a junction element (16) which provides for the closure of the loop (12) on itself, said junction element including at least one opening (17) accommodating the two rope portions (14, 15) joined at said junction point (13) and allowing the sliding of the rope portions for adjusting said loop; wherein said locking element is slidable along the rope portions, the closing loop formed by the attachment device thus being adjustable; wherein the loop (12) and the rope portions (14, 15) are made in a single piece, by the same rope (11).",
    "2. The device (10) according to claim 1, wherein the locking element (18) includes two through openings (20, 21) respectively receiving one and the other of the two rope portions (14, 15), these openings being formed and dimensioned so as to allow sliding of the locking element on the rope portions.",
    "3. An attachment device (10) comprising: two rope portions (14, 15) extending from one side of a junction point (13) from which a loop (12) also extends, said loop extending at the other side of said junction point, a locking element (18) joining the rope portions at a location different from the junction point, the loop and said locking element being dimensioned such that the locking element when passed into the loop, closes the attachment device on itself and such that said locking element ensures locking when an interior of a closing loop thus formed by the attachment device closed on itself is put under tension; wherein said locking element is slidable along the rope portions, the closing loop formed by the attachment device thus being adjustable; wherein, at their end opposite to the junction point (13), the two rope portions (14, 15) are closed one over the other.",
    "4. The device (10) according to claim 3, wherein the rope portions (14, 15) are in a single piece.",
    "5. The device (10) according to claim 3, wherein the rope portions (14, 15) are interconnected at a second junction zone (26).",
    "6. The device according to claim 5, wherein the rope portions (14, 15) extend beyond this second junction zone and are joined farther to form together a supplementary loop (25).",
    "7. Use of an attachment device (10) according to claim 1, wherein the locking element is passed into the loop extending from the junction point; the locking element is slid along the rope portions to adjust the closing loop formed by the attachment device and put the interior under tension, said locking element being locked on the loop extending from the junction point and thus ensuring locking of the attachment device when said attachment device is under tension."
  ],
  "description_excerpt": "The invention relates to the field of attachment devices, particularly textile shackles, clasps, straps and tensioners.\n\nAttachment devices are known from the prior art, particularly textile shackles.\n\nDocument FR 2 893 378 describes for example a textile shackle made of tubular braided rope. The shackle comprises at a first end of the rope a loop, and at a second end of the rope a ball formed from two strands of the rope and intended to be inserted into the loop so as to hold the shackle in the clamped position. This shackle applies particularly to the field of rigging.\n\nAnother example of a known attachment device is described in document CH 170739. In this document, a shackle is described comprising a rope supplied with a closed loop at a junction point from which extend two elements of rope and of a pin located at the end of one of the rope elements and intended to be inserted in the loop so as to hold the shackle in the clamped position.\n\nHowever, with such shackles, the distance separating the two parts to be connected depends on the length of the rope and is not adjustable. Such shackles can therefore be adapted only with difficulty to varied conditions of use.\n\nIn all of the present text, what is meant by a “rope” is any long, flexible strong body and in particular, preferably but not necessarily restrictively, any rope made of natural or synthetic material made by assembling twisted or braided wires.\n\nThe present invention relates to an attachment device which does not have the disadvantages of the prior art.",
  "cpc": [
    "F16G 11/14",
    "D07B 1/18",
    "F16B 2/26",
    "F16G 11/046"
  ],
  "ipc": [
    "D07B 1/18",
    "F16B 2/26",
    "F16G 11/04",
    "F16G 11/14"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "Urban Associes Architectes"
  ],
  "inventors": [
    "Yves Claire Georges LAURANT"
  ],
  "filing_date": "2015-03-17",
  "publication_date": "2018-12-04",
  "grant_date": "2018-12-04",
  "priority_date": "2014-03-17",
  "application_number": "US-201515126563-A",
  "family_id": "51260975",
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