Cable clamp
OwnerJames F. Cartyinventor
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Abstract
A plastic clamp is provided for attaching cables or wires to a wall. A support member and a retaining arm of substantially rigid material are co-extruded with, and connected by, a flexible hinge member at one end of said support member and arm. A plurality of fingers extend inwardly from said support member, toward said retaining arm, each forming a shelf surface for supporting a cable or the like, and the opposite end of said support member are detachably secured by a male connector on said arm having a plurality of flange surfaces disposed for interfitting engagement with a correspondingly shpaed female slotted opening in said support member.
Claims13
A plastic clamp for retaining a plurality of cables or the like adjacent a wall surface comprising:
- an elongated support member having an outer surface for contacting said wall surface;
- an elongated retaining arm disposed in spaced relation with said support member;
- a hinge member interconnecting one end of said support member with one end of said arm, said hinge member being formed of a plastic material having greater flexibility than the material of said support member and the material of said arm;
- means disposed at the opposite end of said support member and the opposite end of said arm for detachably engaging said arm with said support member, said engaging means providing engagement of said arm with said support member by movement in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of said support member outer surface and providing disengagement of said support member through movement in a direction substantially parallel to the plane of said support member outer surface through flexure of said hinge member.
A plastic clamp for retaining a plurality of cables or the like adjacent a wall surface comprising;
- an elongated support member having an outer surface for contacting said wall surface;
- an elongated retaining arm disposed in spaced relation with said support member;
- a hinge means interconnecting said support member and said arm, said hinge member being integrally united to said support member and said arm, said hinge means further being rotatable on a pair of perpendicular axes, one axis disposed substantially perpendicular to said support member outer surface and the other axis disposed substantially parallel to said support member outer surface;
- means disposed at the opposite end of said support member and the opposite end of said arm for detachably engaging said arm with said support member;
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- means disposed on the inner surface of said clamp for supporting a cable or the like between said support member and said retaining arm.
A plastic clamp for retaining a plurality of cables or the like adjacent a wall surface comprising:
- an elongated support member having an outer surface for contacting said wall surface;
- an elongated retaining arm disposed in spaced relation with said support member;
- a hinge member connecting the lower end of said retaining arm to the lower end of said support member, said hinge member being formed of a plastic material having greater flexibility than the material of said support member and the material of said arm;
- a plurality of fingers extending from the inner surface of said support member toward said retaining arm, each of said fingers having an arcuate surface facing upwardly to form a shelf surface of sufficient magnitude to support a cable thereon;
- means disposed on the upper end of said support member and the uper end of said retaining arm for detachably engaging said arm with said support member comprising wall structure forming a slotted opening in said support member having a locking surface substantially in alignment with an imaginary centerline of the arc describing said arcuate surface;
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- an elongated locking member projecting from said retaining arm toward said support member, said locking member having a mating surface for contacting said locking surface with said member extending into said slotted opening whereby said locking member is engagable in said slotted opening by relative motion between said member and said slotted opening in a direction perpendicular to said imaginary centerline and is removable from said slotted opening by relative motion between said member and said slotted opening in the direction of said imaginary centerline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.