Cable cap
AssigneeRichards Manufacturing Company, a New Jersey Limited Partnership
InventorsJoseph Bier, Christopher A. Juillet, Jeff Madden
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Abstract
The present invention provides, in various embodiments, a push on cap for an electrical cable that can be both temporary and permanent. The cap includes an extension that can be folded back for temporary installation of the cap on the cable, and unfolded onto the cable for permanent installation.
Claims10
1-7. (canceled)
A cap for covering an exposed end of a cable, the cap consisting essentially of an elastomeric rubber material and a sealing mastic, wherein the cap is configured to provide an interference fit without engaging the sealing mastic when the cap is in a folded form and temporarily installed on the cable, and wherein the cap is configured to provide a water-tight seal using the sealing mastic when the cap is in an extended form and permanently installed on the cable.
A push on cap for a cable that can be both temporary and permanent, the cap consisting essentially of an elastomeric rubber sleeve and a sealing mastic, the sleeve comprising a cap body having a closed cap end;
- and an extension portion having a middle section and an end section, the middle section of the extension portion having the sealing mastic bonded to an inner surface thereof, and the end section of the extension portion including one or more pull tabs, wherein the extension portion is configured to be folded back over at least a portion of the cap body to expose the mastic when the cap is free or temporarily installed on the cable;
- and wherein the one or more pull tabs are configured to be pulled to unfold the extension portion onto the cable and seal the mastic thereto when the cap is permanently installed on the cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.