Snap fit bowden cable attachment
AssigneeGeneral Motors Corporation
InventorBrian J. LaDue
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Abstract
A snap fit cable attachment for a bowden cable wherein a bowden cable flag and a cable mounting support member are interlocked together by means of a plug and socket arrangement with a snap tab on one of the elements and an abutment for the snap tab on the other element.
Claims12
A motion-transmitting remote control assembly for use in a vehicle and adapted to be secured to a support member fixed to the body of the vehicle, said motion-transmitting remote control assembly including a flexible conduit, a flexible motion-transmitting core element movably supported by said conduit with the ends thereof extending from the ends of said conduit, a support fitting secured to one end of said conduit and having a tubular portion encircling one end of said core element out of engagement therewith, and a cable flag extending radially therefrom with intervening shoulders on opposite sides thereof, said support member having wall means extending from one surface thereof defining a socket cavity for said cable flag, one of said cable flag or said wall means including a flexible wall portion having cam and lock means adjacent to a free end thereof defining a protuberance hindering movement of said cable flag into said socket cavity and the other including an abutment portion thereon against which the lock portion of said cam and lock means can engage whereby to releasably lock said cable flag to said support member, with said core element extending substantially parallel to said one surface of said support member.
A motion-transmitting remote control assembly including a flexible conduit, a flexible motion-transmitting core element movably supported by said conduit with the ends thereof extending from the ends of said conduit, a support fitting operatively fixed on one end of said conduit, said support fitting including a flag means extending radially out from said conduit, a support member adapted for attachment to a support structure, said support member having wall means extending from one surface thereof defining a socket to slidably receive said flag means, said flag means and said wall means defining detent means including a snap tab on said flag means or said wall means and an abutment for said snap tab on the other of said means whereby with said flag means positioned in said socket of said support member it is releasably retained therein by said detent means, with said core element extending substantially parallel to said one surface of said support member.
A motion-transmitting remote control assembly including a flexible conduit, a flexible motion-transmitting core element movably supported by said conduit with the ends thereof extending from the ends of said conduit, a cable support and anti-rotation fitting operatively fixed on one end of said conduit with said core element extending therethrough, said cable support and anti-rotation clip including a flag means fixed to and extending radially outward from said conduit, a support member adapted for attachment to a support structure, said support member having an elongated slot opening extending from one surface thereof defining a socket to slidably receive said flag means, said flag means and said support member defining a releasable detent arrangement whereby with said flag means fully inserted into said socket of said support member said cable support and anti-rotation fitting is releasably secured to said support means.
A motion-transmitting remote control assembly including a flexible conduit means, a flexible motion-transmitting core element movably supported by said conduit means with the ends thereof extending from the ends of said conduit means, said conduit means including a radially outward extending, axially elongated flag means for telescopic assembly with an apertured component, said flag means having a rigid portion and a flexible detent portion movable transversely to the direction of assembly of said flag into said apertured component so as to exert a snap retaining action on said apertured component, said detent portion including an inclined entering face and a retaining face for cooperation with the apertured component.
A motion-transmitting remote control assembly including a flexible conduit, a flexible motion-transmitting core element movably supported by said conduit with the ends thereof extending from the ends of said conduit, and a cable support and anti-rotation fitting operatively fixed to one end of said conduit, said cable support and anti-rotation fitting including an elongated flag means insertable within a complementary support member aperture, a body section fixed to said conduit and from which said flag means extends radially, said body section having a longitudinally extending aperture therethrough to slidably receive said core element, said body section further having a clamping surface for engaging one side of a support member when said flag means has been fully inserted into the aperture therein, said flag means having a flexible detent means extending from a main rigid body portion thereof for engaging a side portion of the support member oppositely disposed from the side which is engaged by said clamping surface of said body section.
A motion-transmitting remote control assembly including a flexible conduit means, a flexible motion-transmitting core element movably supported by said conduit means with the ends thereof extending from the ends of said conduit means, said conduit means including a tubular body means in which said core element is movably supported and at least one axially elongated, flange means extending radially outward from said tubular body means and defining a snap in type fastener for application to an apertured support member, said tubular body means having a clamping surface for engaging one side of an apertured support member, said flange means including a substantially rigid section means extending from said tubular body means, and a laterally flexible section means integrally connected at least at one end thereof with said rigid section means, said flange means in cross section presenting an outer periphery of non-circular shape defining a cross sectional area of a size at its free end entering extremity to facilitate insertion thereof within a complementary aperture in an apertured support member, said flexible section means having a portion thereof extending laterally outward from a peripheral surface of said substantially rigid section means and adapted to move laterally toward said peripheral surface of said substantially rigid section means upon initial insertion of said flange means into an apertured support member and to automatically spring outwardly into interlocking relation with a surface of an apertured support member adjacent to the aperture therein and which is axially spaced from a surface of the apertured support member engaged by said clamping surface.
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