Support spacer for aerial cable
AssigneeThomas & Betts International, Inc.
InventorsJulio F. Rodrigues, Kenneth R. Dumont
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Abstract
An improved cable spacer for spacing a transmission cable or similar article from a support member such as a support wire is provided. The spacer includes a substantially continuous cable contacting surface and includes drainage holes for preventing water and ice accumulation in the interior portion of the spacer. The spacer may further include openings in the side walls thereof in communication with a passageway provided for passage of a cable tie used in conjunction therewith. Such openings permit accommodation of various sizes of transmission cables without added strain between the spacer and cable tie. A plurality of such spacers of the present invention can be used in a stacked configuration to accommodate any desired spacing between a transmission cable and support wire.
Claims9
A spacer for spacing a cable, from a support member, said spacer comprising:
- a spacer body having opposed end walls and including:
- a support member contacting surface;
- an opposed generally planar cable supporting surface extending continuously from one end wall of said spacer body to the opposite end wall of said spacer body, said cable supporting surface capable of supporting said cable continuously along the entire length of said spacer body and along an extent of said cable;
- drainage means extending through said spacer body;
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- cable tie support structure located on said spacer body,
- whereby said spacer is capable of being contiguously secured between the cable and the support member by way of a cable tie or the like surrounding said cable and supported by said cable tie support structure of said spacer body.
A spacer for spacing a cable, from a support member, said spacer comprising:
- a generally rectangular shaped spacer body having side walls along a length thereof and including a generally rectangular shaped upper portion and a generally rectangular shaped lower portion of smaller perimetrical shape relative to said upper portion, such that a plurality of spacers can be stacked, with said lower portion of one of said plurality of spacers interlockingly engaging said upper portion of another of said plurality of spacers, said spacer body further including:
- a support member contacting surface;
- an opposed cable supporting surface capable of supporting said cable continuously along said spacer body and along an extent of said cable;
- a pair of passageways extending through said spacer body at a location adjacent said side walls and said cable supporting surface, said passageways further extending through a portion of said side walls forming side openings therein;
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- ribs on an inner surface of said side walls of said spacer body such that, when said plurality of spacers are stacked, said ribs of one of said plurality of spacers fills in said openings of another of said plurality of spacers,
- whereby said spacer is capable of being contiguously secured between the cable and the support member by way of a cable tie or the like surrounding said cable and said support member and extending through said passageways and said side openings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.