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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 21, 1999
Charles E. Lucas, Tulsa, OK (US);
The Crosby Group, Inc., Tulsa, OK (US);
Abstract
A method of securing a termination element to an end portion of a wire rope, the termination element having an elongated, ductile tubular sleeve portion, including the steps of positioning the end portion of a wire rope within the tubular sleeve portion, positioning the sleeve portion between co-acting dies, the dies having an opening that is non-circular in cross-section, closing the dies a first time to deform the sleeve portion about the wire rope and into a non-circular external cross-section shape opening dies rotating the sleeve portion less than 180° closing the dies a second time to form the sleeve portion into a final external non-circular shape and opening the dies to remove the termination element.