US 11,536,398 B2Granted

Hanger for mounting multiple cables

AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC

InventorsRonald A. Vaccaro, Aviral Joshi, Taig S. Rajpal

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Abstract

A cable hanger for securing cables to a supporting structure includes: a base panel having opposed ends; a pair of arms attached to a respective end of the base panel and having a free end; a pair of locking projections, each of the locking projections attached to a respective free end of the arms; a pair of gripping members, each gripping member attached with a respective arm or to the base panel, wherein the arms and locking projections are spread apart to enable insertion of a first cable between the arms, wherein the gripping members engage and grip the first cable, and wherein the locking projections are inserted into the aperture of the supporting structure; and at least one finger attached to and extending from one of the arms or the base panel, the finger configured to deflect and grasp a second cable against the arm or base panel.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A cable hanger, comprising:

a base having a first stacking feature;
first and second arms, each of the arms attached to a respective opposite edge of the base and extending generally perpendicularly to the base;
the base, the first arm and the second arm defining a periphery;
second stacking features attached to the first and second arms, the second stacking features configured to mate with the first stacking features to enable an identical second cable hanger to stack on the cable hanger;
at least one first cable gripping member connected with and extending from the first arm external to the periphery in a first direction generally perpendicular to the first arm;
at least one second cable gripping member connected with and extending from the second am external to the periphery in a second direction that is opposite the first direction;
a third cable gripping member mounted on and extending from the first arm within the periphery;
and
a fourth cable gripping member mounted on and extending from the second arm within the periphery;
wherein the third and fourth cable gripping members are sized and configured to together grip a cable within the periphery.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/082,656Filed 28 Oct 2020 · continuation
Priority: 30 Nov 2016
Published: US 2021/0041042 A111 Feb 2021
Granted: 27 Dec 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

F16L 3/223
Specially adapted for supporting a number of parallel pipes at intervals: each support having one transverse base for supporting the pipes
F16L 3/133
Comprising a member substantially surrounding the pipe, cable or protective tubing: and hanging from a pendant
H02G 3/32
Installations of cables or lines on walls, floors or ceilings: using mounting clamps
F16L 3/08
Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, e.g. hangers, holders, clamps, cleats, clips, brackets: substantially surrounding the pipe, cable…

Family

Application62/427,975Us provisional application · filed 30 Nov 2016
Application62/447,947Us provisional application · filed 19 Jan 2017
Application15/819,647Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Nov 2017
US 10,823,312 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 3 Nov 2020
US 2021/0041042 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Feb 2021
US 2018/0149292 A1Published application
US 11,536,398 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.