The Creager Self-Locking Cleat

THE CREAGER SELF-LOCKING CLEAT

The accompanying engraving represents a new self-locking cleat which, it is claimed, embodies all the electrical and mechanical requirements of a perfect cleat. Its method of application will be readily understood. By its use it is not necessary to put so many on a ceiling or wall to have the line present a desirable appearance. The arrows show the direction in which the line is being run; all that is necessary is to draw the line as taut as desirable

Creager Self-Locking Cleat.

and release it, and the serrated face of the dog catches it in crowds it into the curved wall, holding it taut and firm. The cleat will take Nos. 16, 14, 12 and 10, and all intermediate sizes of insulated wire, larger cleats holding larger wire.

By the use of this cleat it is claimed one man can do the work of two or three with any other. It does not require one man to pull and one to fasten, but one man can erect all the cleats necessary for an installation, and by reversing the first cleat at the starting point of the line, he can throw up all the wire and simply draw the line up between each cleat, or even two cleats, and let go of it and it remains taut and firm.

This novel device is manufactured by the Creager & Connard Co., of Marseilles, Ill.