| 摘要 |
A method of terminating wire ropes by swaging in the field with hand tools. At the factory, one end of termination (9) has been prepared with threads (13) and the opposing end has been drilled forming a hole the diameter of which is too small to fit a wire rope end (11) with a tapered locking plug (10) installed. At the factory the remaining metal is then swaged outward, forming the swaged out sleeve portion (12), to an inside diameter sufficient to allow insertion of wire rope end (11) with plug (10) installed. Out in the field, plug (10) is first inserted into wire rope end (11) over the center strand and under the outer strands. Assembled wire rope end (11) and plug (10) are now inserted into swaged out sleeve portion (12). Swaged out sleeve portion (12), with wire rope end (11) and plug (10) installed, is then swaged inward, with a hand tool, forming the inside walls into a taper that is coextensive with the plug's tapered portion (18). Wire rope end (11) is under compression between the inner wall of swaged in sleeve portion (21) and plug (10). Under tension loads, the wire rope strands grip plug (10) sufficiently to shift plug (10) axially inside swaged in sleeve portion (21) so that plug (10) compresses wire rope end (11) ever more tightly against swaged in sleeve portion (21) effectively locking wire rope end (11) and termination (9) together.
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