Turnbuckle

Claim 1

IN A TURNBUCKLE COMPRISING, A BARREL HAVING A THROUGH BORE THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF WHICH ARE INTERNALLY THREADED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS INWARDLY TO THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER OF SAID BARREL, AND A TERMINAL MEMBER FOR EACH END OF SAID BARREL, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES EACH TERMINAL MEMBER BEING TUBULAR WITH A CONTINUOUS PERIPHERAL WALL STRUCTURE AND APPROXIMATELY EQUAL IN LENGTH TO ONE-HALF THE LENGTH OF SAID BARREL, EACH OF SAID TUBULAR TERMINAL MEMBERS BEING CHARACTERIZED BY AN EXTERNALLY THREADED INNER END PORTION ADJUSTABLY THREADED IN ONE END OF SAID BARREL AND AN ADJACENT, INTEGRAL, NON-THREADED PORTION OF LESSER DIAMETER THAN SAID THREADED END PORTION SWAGED ONTO ONE END OF A CABLE INSERTED THROUGH THE OUTER END OF SAID TERMINAL MEMBER WHEREBY SAID ONE END OF SAID CABLE IS SECURELY CLAMPED IN THE TERMINAL MEMBER, SAID SWAGING TERMINATING SHORT OF SAID EXTERNALLY THREADED INNER END PORTION OF SAID TUBULAR TERMINAL MEMBER WITH SAID INNER END THEREOF REMAINING OPEN AND SHORT OF THE INSERTED INNER END OF THE CABLE SO THAT THE INNER ENDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS MAKING UP THE CABLE TEND TO FLARE OUTWARDLY WITH SAID TUBULAR TERMINAL MEMBER PERMITTING VISUAL INSPECTION THROUGH THE OPEN INNER END THEREOF FOR ASCERTAINING WHETHER OR NOT THE CABLE IS PROPERLY CLAMPED WITHIN SAID NON-THREADED PORTION AS INDICATED BY THE FLARING OUT OF THE ENDS OF THE INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS MAKING UP THE CABLE.