Sealed joint devices for securing strap ends together

A crimped sealed joint assembly for fixedly securing the opposite ends of plastic strapping together, wherein the plastic strapping is disposed around an article, comprising:

• a plastic strapping having opposite ends to be fixedly secured together with respect to each other;
• sealed joint structure within which said opposite ends of said plastic strapping are disposed such that said opposite ends of said plastic strapping can be fixedly secured together with respect to each other;
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• friction enhancing means, disposed upon any two predetermined surface portions of said opposite ends of said plastic strapping, and said sealed joint structure, which are disposed in surface-to-surface contact with each other, for enhancing the fixation of said opposite ends of said plastic strapping with respect to each other within said sealed joint structure;
• said sealed joint structure being crimpingly engaged onto said opposite ends of said plastic strapping so as to enhance the frictional interaction properties between said any two predetermined surface portions of said opposite ends of said plastic strapping, and said sealed joint structure, which are disposed in surface-to-surface contact with each other, whereby the degree of slipperiness, between said opposite ends of said plastic strapping and said sealed joint structure, will be substantially reduced so as to effectively fixedly secure said opposite ends of said plastic strapping together with respect to each other within said sealed joint structure;
• wherein said sealed joint structure comprises a sealed joint housing comprising an upper wall member, a lower wall member spaced from said upper wall member, and a pair of spaced side wall members so as to define an open space therebetween, and a sealed joint insert disposed internally within said sealed joint housing so as to effectively divide said open space of said sealed joint housing, defined between said upper and lower wall members and said pair of spaced side wall members, into upper and lower spaces within which said opposite ends of said plastic strapping are disposed in contact with said sealed joint insert so as to fixedly retain said opposite ends of said plastic strapping within said sealed joint housing while said opposite ends of said plastic strapping are not disposed in contact with each other, one of said wall members comprising said upper wall member and said pair of side wall members having slots defined therein such that when said sealed joint insert is disposed within said sealed joint housing, portions of said sealed joint insert project outwardly through said slots defined within said wall members of said sealed joint housing.