US 4,062,636 A · Elongate cylindrical members securement

Abstract

The present invention comprises an inter-fitting, two-part securing means which holds a flanged end of an elongated cylindrical actuating cable guidance tube in its operative position on a support in a vehicle. The securing means comprises a pair of generally semi-cylindrical body parts which, when assembled, form a through bore for the cable, and guidance tube with opposed recesses in the bore which receive and hold the guidance tube flange. One of the pair of body parts has a flanged end and is inserted through a noncircular hole in the support with the flange clamped against the support. Substantially diametrically outwardly extending ribs on the other end of the one body part are slidingly received in complementary grooves on the other of the pair of body parts. Integral spring finger means locks the pair of body parts in assembled relation.

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Dependent claims

A locating member for securing a tube to a support comprising two body portions having complementary part-cylindrical channels of semi-circular cross-section for closely accommodating said tube,

means on one of said portions for securing said one of said portions to said support, said one portion having means for holding said tube against relative axial movement,
one of said portions having a pair of opposed radially-extending ridges and the other of said portions having a pair of complementary axially extending grooves for slidably receiving said ridges on axial movement of one portion relative to the other from a disassembled to an assembled configuration where said tube is fixed between said portions in an axial as well as in radial direction, and
locking means on the portions to restrain relative axial movement of the portions from their assembled towards their disassembled positions.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Elongate cylindrical members securement

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Elongate cylindrical members securement

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Abstract

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