Method for securing a flexible cable sheath to an electrical adapter shell
AssigneeM-Pyre, L.L.C.
InventorsJoseph M. Reilly, Nicholas H. Neely
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Abstract
A method for securing a flexible cable to an electrical adapter shell, the electrical adapter shell having a nipple having an outwardly opening channel, the method including the steps of extending the cable sheath over the nipple, providing a thermoplastic strap, compressing the thermoplastic strap's inner end and the flexible cable sheath into the nipple's outwardly opening channel, wrapping the thermoplastic strap about the flexible cable sheath, adhesively attaching the thermoplastic strap's outer end to the thermoplastic strap's immediately underlying wrap, and nestingly compressing and heat shrinking the spirally wrapped thermoplastic strap about the flexible cable sheath and into the nipple's outwardly opening channel.
Claims5
A method for securing a flexible cable sheath to an electrical adapter shell, the cable sheath having an open forward end, the electrical adapter shell having a nipple, the nipple having an outwardly opening channel, the outwardly opening channel having a width, the method comprising steps of:
- (a) slidably extending the flexible cable sheath over the nipple until the flexible cable sheath overlies the nipple's outwardly opening channel;
- (b) providing a heat shrinkable thermoplastic strap having an inner end, an outer end, and having a width, the width being less than the outwardly opening channel's width;
- (c) nestingly compressing the heat shrinkable thermoplastic strap's inner end and the flexible cable sheath into the nipple's outwardly opening channel;
- (d) extending the heat shrinkable thermoplastic strap in a plurality of spiral wraps about the flexible cable sheath;
- (e) adhesively attaching the heat shrinkable thermoplastic strap's outer end to an immediately underlying wrap;
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- (f) further nestingly compressing the heat shrinkable thermoplastic strap and the flexible cable sheath into the nipple's outwardly opening channel, the further nestingly compressing step comprising heat shrinking the heat shrinkable thermoplastic strap.
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