AUTOMATIC TAKE-UP DEVICE AND IN-LINE COUPLER

摘要

A tension connection for a building includes first and second elongated tension members, the first and second elongated tension members being disposed in close proximity and connected by a coupler being formed with a connection end and a take-up end, and a central bore, the coupler also being formed with first and second rotational members, the rotational members each being received in the central bore of the surrounding sleeve and operatively connected to the surrounding sleeve, each rotational member is connected to the surrounding sleeve only by the mating attachment of the thread on the cylindrical outer surface with the thread of the surrounding sleeve, such that the rotational member can rotate in relation to the surrounding sleeve, and a torsion spring connects the first rotational member and the surrounding sleeve, the torsion spring biasing the first rotational member and the surrounding sleeve in opposite rotational directions