Creager & Connard Company self-locking cleat

A New Self-Locking Cleat.

We illustrate herewith a new self-locking cleat, shortly to be put on the market by Creager & Connard Company, Marseilles, Ill., which is claimed to be both positive and reliable in its operation. The arrows in the cut show the direction in which the line is being run. It is claimed that it is only necessary to draw the wire as taut as possible or desirable and release it, when the serrated face of the dog will cramp the wire into the curved wall and hold it taut. It is further claimed that the use of this cleat will enable one man to do the work usually done by two, as it does not require one to pull the wire while another fastens it, the mode of procedure being that the wireman first puts up all his cleats, reversing the first so as to hold the starting end, and then simply pulls the wire taut from cleat to cleat, or at alternate cleats, where it is held by the dogs. The cleats are, of course, made of porcelain to conform to underwriters' requirements.

Self-Locking Cleat.