Holding element made of plastic
AssigneeTRW United Carr GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsJeffrey C. Lewis, Daniel G. O'Sullivan
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Abstract
A plastic holding element 1 for the mounting of at least one tube or cable 2 includes a connecting base 4 attachable to a support and carrying a mounting area comprising two opposed dish-like elements 5, 6. The dish-like elements are connected to each other at a lower end and are further connected on both sides of the lower region to a resilient intermediate piece, which joins into connecting base 4. The dish-like elements 5, 6 are connectable to each other adjacent their upper end portions via contact elements 16, 17. Elastic strip portions 9, 10 connect the two dish-like elements with each other and are joined thereto at an interior end 13 and exterior ends 11, 12.
Claims10
In a holding element formed of plastics material for mounting of at least one tube or cable and comprising a connecting base means attachable to a support and carrying a tube or cable holding area defined by a pair of dish-shaped elements mounted in opposed facing relationship, the dish-shaped elements each having lower end portions pivotally joined with each other and upper end portions selectively engageable with each other,
- the improvement wherein elastic strip means connect between the dish-like elements with end portions of the strip means joined to the dish-like elements at locations such that the elastic strip means resiliently encircles tubes or cables placed in the holding area and the upper end portions are selectively engaged,
- the strip means comprising two elastic strip portions with each strip portion having first and second ends and connected across a separate respective one of the dish-shaped elements with the first end of each strip portion connected adjacent the upper end portion of its respective dish-shaped element and its second end connected adjacent the lower end portion of its respective dish-shaped element.
In a holding element formed of plastics material for mounting of at least one tube or cable and comprising a connecting base means attachable to a support and carrying a tube or cable holding area defined by a pair of dish-shaped elements each having lower end portions pivotally joined with each other and upper end portions selectively engageable with each other,
- the improvement wherein elastic strip means connect between the dish-like elements with end portions of the strip means joined to the dish-like elements at locations such that the elastic strip means resiliently encircles tubes or cables placed in the holding area and the upper end portions are selectively engaged, and
- wherein the elastic strip means comprises two elastic strip portions each connected at an inner end to a lower end portion of a dish-shaped element, the two elastic strip portions having a common inner end and being attached via the common inner end to the connection connecting the lower end portions of the two dish-like elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.