Adjustable support assembly
AssigneeIreco, Inc.
InventorRudolph E. Nadherny
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Abstract
An adjustable support assembly is provided for suspending or otherwise attaching one article such as a conduit to another article such as a frame. The adjustable support assembly includes a pair of inelastic, flexible cables that are secured together at spaced locations by retainers in order to form a series of elongated eyes. One of the cables extends beyond the other cable and has a tapered stop secured to its free end. When used, the adjustable support assembly is wrapped around the article being suspended or attached, and the tapered stop is passed through one of the elongated eyes and wedged therein in order to secure the free end to the elongated eye of the adjustable support assembly.
Claims29
An adjustable support assembly comprising a plurality of inelastic, flexible and stiff cables and a plurality of retaining members spaced along and rigidly secured to said stiff cables, said cables and said retaining members forming, in combination, a series of stiff elongated eyes, said stiff cables of the elongated eyes being sufficiently resilient in their generally transverse dimension such that said elongated eyes will expand and snap back to a generally closed position, said stiff cables of the elongated eyes being biased toward a generally closed orientation to provide a wedging portion at which at least a section of each of said stiff cables is substantially juxtaposed with respect to the other, at least one of said inelastic, flexible and stiff cables extends beyond an outermost retaining member, said at least one cable having a free end, said free end includes one-way means, said one-way means having a leading end and a trailing end, said elongated eye and its wedging portion being sized and structured to permit passage of said one-way means through said elongated eye, said trailing end of the one-way means having an integral stop that is sized to provide a rigid abutment between said elongated eye and said trailing end of the one-way means, and said abutment restrains passage of the one-way means in a direction toward said abutment between the elongated eye and the integral stop.
An adjustable support assembly comprising a plurality of inelastic, flexible cables and a plurality of retaining members spaced along and rigidly secured to said cables, said cables and retaining members forming, in combination, a series of elongated eyes, said elongated eyes having a wedging portion at which at least a section of each of said cables is substantially juxtaposed with respect to the other, at least one of said inelastic, flexible cables extends beyond an outermost retaining member, said at least one cable having a free end, said free end includes one-way means, said one-way means having a leading end and a trailing end, said elongated eye and its wedging portion being sized and structured to permit passage of said one-way means through said elongated eye, said trailing end of the one-way means having a stop that is sized to provide a rigid abutment between said elongated eye and said trailing end of the one-way means, and said abutment retrains passage of the one-way means in a direction toward said abutment between the elongated eye and the stop, wherein said at least one of said cables that extends beyond the outermost retaining member extends beyond the outermost retaining member for a length that is less than that needed to twice feed the one-way means, in the direction of its leading end, through the elongated eye.
An adjustable support assembly for securing components such as air brake hose, brake bottom rods and the like to railway vehicles and the like, said adjustable support assembly comprising a plurality of inelastic, flexible cables and a plurality of retaining members spaced along and rigidly secured to said cables, said cables and said retaining members forming, in combination, a series of elongated eyes, said elongated eyes having a wedging portion at which at least a section of each of said cables is substantially juxtaposed with respect to the other, at least one of said inelastic, flexible cables extends beyond another of said inelastic, flexible cables, said one cable having a free end, said free end including one-way means, said one-way means having a leading end and a trailing end, said elongated eye and its wedging portion being sized and structured to permit passage of said one-way means through said elongated eye, said trailing end of the one-way means having a stop that is sized to provide a rigid abutment between said elongated eye and said trailing end of the one-way means, said abutment restraining passage of the one-way means in a direction toward said abutment between the elongated eye and the stop, and a component is suspended from a member of a vehicle by wrapping a portion of the adjustable assembly around the vehicle member and by wrapping another portion of the adjustable support assembly around the component.
An improvement in railway car construction having a conduit extending beneath a railway car, a support assembly for suspending the conduit from the railway car, wherein the improvement comprises an adjustable support assembly including a plurality of inelastic, flexible and stiff cables and a plurality of retaining members spaced along and rigidly secured to said stiff cables, said cables and said retaining members forming, in combination, a series of stiff elongated eyes, said stiff cables of the elongated eyes being sufficiently resilient in their generally transverse dimension such that said elongated eyes will expand from and snap back to a substantially closed position, said stiff cables of the elongated eyes being biased toward a generally closed orientation to provide a wedging portion at which at least a section of each of said stiff cables is substantially juxtaposed with respect to the other, at least one of said inelastic, flexible and stiff cables extends beyond another of said inelastic, flexible and stiff cables, said at least one cable having a free end, said free end includes one-way means, said one-way means having a leading end and a trailing end, said elongated eye and its wedging portion being sized and structured to permit passage of said one-way means through said elongated eye, said trailing end of the one-way means having an integral stop that is sized to provide a rigid abutment between said elongated eye and said trailing end of the one-way means, and said abutment restrains passage of the one-way means in a direction toward said abutment between the elongated eye and the integral stop.
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