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Assignee: American Commercial Lines, Inc.

Location: Houston, TX
No. of patents: 1

Number	Title	Issue Date
4166427	Tightening and securing cables holding barges together By grasping a steel cable with a low cost portable self-tightening clamp that increases its holding force as the tensile pull force increases, one man can tighten steel cables of various lengths having bitter ends by using temporarily a single portable ra...	09/04/1979