Electricity: conductors and insulators – Conduits – cables or conductors – Accessories
Patent
1996-01-17
1998-04-14
Kincaid, Kristine L.
Electricity: conductors and insulators
Conduits, cables or conductors
Accessories
174 40CC, 248 742, H01B 700
Patent
active
057394741
ABSTRACT:
An all weather cable clip assembly (1) having a cable body (2) and a nail or similar fastener (3), is used to secure a coaxial type cable (4) against a mounting surface (16). The cable clip body (2), made of a material that can undergo extreme weather conditions, has an upper surface (4), a lower surface (5), a front surface (6), a back surface (7), a first end surface (8), a second end surface (9), a cable engaging surface (10) and a cable opening (15). The nail is forced into a hole (17) in the body that extends from the upper surface towards the lower surface. In the preferred embodiment the hole has a longitudinal portion that has an upper transverse dimension (18) and a longitudinal portion that has a lower transverse dimension (19), where the transverse dimension of the nail is less than the lower transverse dimension of the hole. The nail is forced into the hole and out the bottom surface, and is retained in the hole by the friction engagement between the surface of the nail and interior surface of the hole at the lower transverse dimension. The cable engaging surface has a plurality of elongated grooves or slots (12) that run parallel to the axis of the cable in the clip. These grooves or slots act as preconditioned weak points in the cable engaging surface so that when a force is applied to the end surfaces of the body, the cable clip body will first deform or bend along those elongated grooves to move in a crimping action around a smaller size of cable (22) that is placed in the clip body. In this way the cable clip assembly of this invention can be used as a "one size fits all" cable clip to securely attach cables of differing sizes to mounting surfaces.
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Bradley Edward J.
Cuneo Kamand
Gaither Roger S.
Kincaid Kristine L.
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