US 12,442,133 B2
Rope having an end connector segment comprising two rope-branches with unequal lengths
Pieter De Jager, Sliedrecht (NL); and Adrianus Stout, Alblasserdam (NL)
Assigned to Lankhorst Touwfabrieken B.V., Sneek (NL)
Appl. No. 17/595,586
Filed by Lankhorst Touwfabrieken B.V., Sneek (NL)
PCT Filed Feb. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/NL2020/050114
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 19, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/235993, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19175709 (EP), filed on May 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0081832 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. D07B 1/18 (2006.01); B66C 1/12 (2006.01); F16G 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC D07B 1/185 (2013.01) [B66C 1/12 (2013.01); F16G 11/00 (2013.01); D07B 2201/1004 (2013.01)] 8 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 branching position is a fixed position along the longitudinal rope direction,
the end connector segment is formed by all parts of the rope that, as seen in said longitudinal rope direction, are extending from the branching position up to the longitudinal rope end,
the end connector segment has two, and only two, branches of the rope,
said two branches of the rope are consisting of a first rope-branch and a second rope-branch, which at said branching position are branched off from the main rope segment,
the first rope-branch comprises a first rope-branch-eye and the second rope-branch comprises a second rope-branch-eye, and
an attainable maximum first effective length of the first rope-branch is higher than 120% of an attainable maximum second effective length of the second rope-branch.