Housing for supporting and routing cables

A housing for routing and protecting a plurality of spark plug ignition cables which extend from one area to another area of the engine compartment of a vehicle, said housing comprising a pair of members adapted to be releasably connected together, each of said members being formed as a molded plastic member and having two outer channels and at least one inner channel provided therein for supporting and positioning said cables in side-by-side relationship, a base portion, said inner channel being defined by a pair of laterally spaced inner walls integrally formed with the said base portion, each of said outer channels being defined by an outer wall integrally formed with the base portion and one of said pair of inner walls, said outer wall having an outer surface and an inner surface, each of said inner walls being provided with a plurality of relatively flexible tab members spaced along the length of the housing and located in pairs along an axis extending transversely to the longitudinal axis of the inner channel, each of said flexible tab members having an inner surface facing the inner channel and an outer surface facing an outer channel, certain pairs of transversely aligned tab members each having the inner surface thereof formed with first detent means for allowing a portion of a cable to be pressed into the inner channel and retained in position by said first detent means, the other of said pairs of tab members each having the outer surface thereof formed with second detent means, the inner surface of each of said outer walls located opposite to said second detent means being formed with third detent means which cooperate with said second detent means for retaining a portion of a cable within the outer channel, and check means formed on the inner walls and the outer walls of each of said channels for preventing the cables from moving longitudinally relative to the housing.