US 11,965,288 B2
Rope having an end connector segment comprising two rope-branches for making noosed connections
Pieter De Jager, Sliedrecht (NL); Ricky Norman Daly, Helensvale (AU); and Adrianus Stout, Alblasserdam (NL)
Assigned to Lankhorst Touwfabrieken B. V., Sneek (NL)
Appl. No. 17/595,604
Filed by Lankhorst Touwfabrieken B.V., Sneek (NL)
PCT Filed Feb. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/NL2020/050115
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/235994, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19175724 (EP), filed on May 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0228316 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. D07B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC D07B 5/005 (2013.01) [D07B 2201/1004 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rope, wherein the rope along a longitudinal rope direction of the rope towards a longitudinal rope end of the rope successively comprises at least a main rope segment, a branching position and an end connector segment, wherein the end connector segment comprises a first rope-branch and a second rope-branch, wherein each of the first rope-branch and the second rope-branch at said branching position is branched off from the main rope segment,
wherein the first rope-branch comprises a noosed first rope-branch portion for making a noosed connection with a thickened rope portion and wherein
the second rope-branch comprises
a thickened second rope-branch portion for making a noosed connection with a noosed rope portion.