Clamps
AssigneeSmiths Group PLC
InventorsDonald Richard LaCoy, Shannon Powers
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Abstract
A cable clamp has two identical moulded components that can be clamped together about a cable. Each component has a yoke with a ratchet bar at one end and two short arms at its opposite end spaced by a gap and having ratchet teeth on their inner faces. The ratchet bars on each component extend in the gap between the arms on the other component and the cable extends through the aperture between the two yokes and between the two ratchet bars. The yokes can be squeezed together about the cable, causing the ratchet bars to slide over the engaging teeth, which prevents the two components being subsequently separated.
Claims10
A clamp for fastening about an elongate member, the clamp comprising:
- first and second yokes that can be urged together about opposite sides of said elongate member;
- two generally parallel ratchet bars, said ratchet bars extending between said yokes;
- and cooperating ratchet teeth extending transversely of said elongate member, said teeth being arranged so that as said two yokes are moved together in one direction said two ratchet bars move over said ratchet teeth to restrain said yokes against separation in an opposite direction.
A clamp comprising:
- first and second cooperating connector housing parts, wherein said first and second housing parts include two ratchet bars arranged to extend parallel with one another and two cooperating apertures arranged to receive respective ones of the ratchet bars such that a cable can be located between the ratchet bars and the connector parts can be clamped about the cable by pushing the ratchet bars along their length in respective apertures, and wherein said ratchet bars have teeth
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.