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Towing Sock
A towing sock or wire rope puller or wire pulling grip is a device that connects to the end of a cable, such as a power cable, in order to pull it through a tube or tunnel. It works by tightening around the cable when pulled, in the same manner as a Chinese finger trap. The towing sock is tubular and made of braided cable, open at one end and closed at the other where it connects to a tow line using an Wire rope#Eye splice or Flemish eye, eye splice. Variants Medical Similar devices include a traction device used to treat a Bennett's fracture, a type of finger or thumb injury. Also similar is the strain-relief grip which uses woven wire around the end of electrical wiring just before the terminal. It is placed there to prevent the wire from breaking. They are common in "drop" installations where electrical cables are attached to conduit on the ceiling and drop through space down to a machine or receptacle. Generally, the cable is attached to the electrical wiring near the ceili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Towing is coupling two or more objects together so that they may be pulled by a designated power source or sources. The towing source may be a motorized land vehicle, vessel, animal, or human, and the load being anything that can be pulled. These may be joined by a chain, rope, bar, hitch, Three-point hitch, three-point, fifth wheel, Railway coupling, coupling, Drawbar (haulage), drawbar, integrated platform, or other means of keeping the objects together while in motion. Towing may be as simple as a farm tractor, tractor pulling a tree stump. The most familiar form is the transport of disabled or otherwise indisposed vehicles by a tow truck or "wrecker". Other familiar forms are the tractor-trailer combination, and cargo or leisure vehicles coupled via ball or pintle and gudgeon trailer hitches to smaller trucks and cars. In the opposite extreme are extremely heavy duty armored recovery vehicle, tank recovery vehicles, and enormous ballast tractors involved in heavy hauling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
