Cable support
AssigneeArlington Industries, Inc.
InventorThomas J. Gretz
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Abstract
An integral or unitary flexible cable support comprising: 1) a base for mounting on an appropriate structural member and including at least one recess, and 2) a flexible strap integrally formed with the base, the flexible strap having a base end attached to the base, a distal end that includes a key hole shaped aperture for engaging an appropriate attachment button on the front of the base and at least one tab on the front surface of the strap. In use, cable or wiring to be supported is placed within the flexible strap, the strap bent to encompass the wiring, the keyhole shaped aperture engaged about the attachment button and the at least one tab engaged with the recess on the base.
Claims10
In an integral cable support comprising:
- A) a base having a front and a rear surface and at least one recess therein;
- B) a flexible strap having a front surface and a rear surface, a base end attached to either said base front or rear surface and a distal end;
- C) a button on said front base surface comprising a post on said base front surface and a head atop said post, said head being of a greater dimension than said post;
- D) a key hole shaped aperture proximate said distal end including a wide portion of a size to pass over said head and a narrow portion of a size to engage said post;
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- E) at least one tab on said flexible strap front surface wherein said wide portion passes over said head when said strap is bent upon itself to form a cable cradle, said narrow portion engages said post when weight is applied to said strap bent upon itself after said wide portion has been passed over said head and said at least one tab engages said at least one recess in said base after said narrow portion engages said post, the improvement comprising fabrication of said cable support from a low smoke emission polymeric material having a maximum continuous use temperature on the order of above 200° F. and a tensile strength above about 3000 psi.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.