Cable tie flotation device with cable tie
OwnerReginald J. Moreauinventor
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Abstract
A cable tie flotation device for making a cable tie buoyant having a volume of resilient, easily deformable material having an opening therethrough and a fastening means. The deformable material has a specific gravity less than one and is of sufficient quantity to keep the cable tie afloat in a liquid medium. The fastening means includes an opposed resilient force created by the deformation of the opening the material by a cable tie passing therethrough such that the deformable material is maintained in connective relationship about the cable tie by the opposed force of the resilient deformable material as it attempts to return to its original shape.
Claims20
A cable tie flotation device for making a cable tie buoyant, said device comprising:
- a volume of resilient, deformable material having an opening therethrough, said material having a specific gravity less than one;
- and
- fastening means comprising an opposed resilient force created by the deformation of said opening by a cable tie passing therethrough such that said deformable material is maintained in connective relationship about said cable tie by said opposed resilient force of said material.
A floatable cable tie comprising:
- a cable tie having a strap portion and a head portion at one end of said strap portion;
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- a volume of resilient, easily-deformable buoyant material having an opening therethrough and a fastening means comprising an opposed resilient force created by the deformation of said opening by a cable tie passing therethrough such that said deformable material is maintained in connective relationship about said cable tie by said opposed resilient force of said material, wherein said volume of said buoyant material is sufficient to keep said cable tie afloat in a liquid.
A method of providing buoyant support to a cable tie comprising:
- squeezing a resilient, deformable cable tie flotation device to deform an opening therethrough sufficiently to allow insertion of a cable tie having a head portion acid a strap portion, said opening having a diameter slightly smaller that the diameter of said cable tie strap portion;
- inserting said strap portion end of said cable tie into said opening of said deformed flotation device;
- sliding said deformed flotation device along said cable tie strap until said flotation device is adjacent to said head portion of said cable tie;
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- releasing said deformed flotation device and allowing an opposed resilient force created by said squeezing of said flotation device to act upon said strap portion of said cable tie securing said flotation device to said cable tie.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.