Cable guide with automatic cable release and method of use

A method of installing overhead cable in a building comprising:

• providing a plurality of cabling devices, each cabling device having a rigid frame, a plurality of rollers supported by the rigid frame and defining an interior, one of the plurality of rollers connected to a pivoting frame portion of the rigid frame so as to define a closed position whereby cable is retained in the interior, and an open position whereby cable retained in the interior is released from the interior, an automated cable release system connected to the pivoting frame portion and operable to provide automated control of the pivoting frame portion upon receipt of an actuation signal, and a mount operable to allow attachment of the rigid frame to an overhead structure of the building;
• attaching the plurality of cabling devices to various points on an overhead structure of a building along a cabling pathway;
• providing a closed-loop pulley system along the cabling pathway, the closed-loop pulley system having a rotatable pull string looped through a first pulley, a second pulley, and the plurality of cabling devices, the pull string allowing attachment thereto of one or more cables to be pulled;
• attaching one or more cables to the pull string at a location that is before a first cabling device of the plurality of cabling devices;
• rotating the pull string in a forward direction of travel to feed the one or more attached cables through each one of the plurality of cabling devices beginning from the first cabling device while the plurality of cabling devices are in the closed position;
• providing an actuation signal to the automated cable release system of each one of the plurality of cabling devices after the pull string has fed the one or more cables through each one of the plurality of cabling devices such that each one of the cabling devices are in the open position whereby the one or more cables are released from each one of the plurality of cabling devices and into each one of a plurality of cable ties, each cable tie associated with a respective cabling device;
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• attaching each one of the cable ties to an overhead structure of the building along the cabling pathway.