Heat-recoverable articles
AssigneeRaychem Corporation
InventorDavid T. Squires
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Abstract
A heat-recoverable article for protecting a conduit, for example, an electric cable, where its conductors pass through an aperture in a bulkhead, in order, for example, to prevent chafing; the article has an inner expansible and an outer shrinkable sleeve, the outer jacket of the cable terminating in an annular space between the sleeves, the space shrinking on heating of the article; one end of the inner sleeve is expansible to grip the bulkhead.
Claims20
An article for attaching an elongate member to a wall at an aperture in the wall, the article comprising an inner sleeve, having both first and second ends open, and secured thereto an outer sleeve having first and second ends, the second end of the outer sleeve being open, at least a portion of the section of the outer sleeve between the second end of the outer sleeve and where the outer sleeve is secured to the inner sleeve being heat-shrinkable and extending over and being spaced apart from a portion only of the length of the inner sleeve, thus forming a securing part of the article for securing the elongate member to the article, at least a portion of the inner sleeve remote from the securing part of the article being heat-expansible, thus forming an attachment part of the article adapted to be passed through the aperture and when heated to expand to attach the article to the wall.
A dimensionally heat-unstable article for attaching an elongate member to a wall at an aperture in the wall, the article having an inner sleeve, at least a portion of which is heat-expansible, at least a portion of the inner sleeve being surrounded by an outer, heat-shrinkable sleeve secured thereto, a portion of the outer sleeve being spaced apart from the inner sleeve to provide an annular space between them, thus forming a securing part of the article for securing the elongate member to the article, the cross-section of which space, and the cross-sectional area of which space, are reduced on heating of the article, wherein the expansible portion of the inner sleeve at least includes a portion of the inner sleeve remote from the annular space as an attachment part of the article adapted to be passed through the aperture and when heated to expand to attach the article to the wall.
A dimensionally heat-unstable article for attaching an elongate member to a wall at an aperture in the wall, which comprises coaxial inner and outer sleeves of substantially equal length and with approximately aligned ends, the inner and outer sleeves being in contact from a first end to an intermediate position in an attachment part of the article, the inner and outer sleeves being separated by a space of annular cross-section from the intermediate position to the second end in a securing part of the article, the portion of the outer sleeve from the intermediate position to the second end being heat-shrinkable, and the portion of the inner sleeve from the intermediate position to the first end being heat-expansible and adapted to be passed through the elongate member to the article in the securing part of the article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.