US1349043A

US1349043A - Cable-support

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Publication number: US1349043A
Application number: US193067A
Authority: US
Inventors: Orson W Brenizer
Original assignee: ANDREW V GROUPE
Current assignee: ANDREW V GROUPE
Priority date: 1917-09-25
Filing date: 1917-09-25
Publication date: 1920-08-10
Anticipated expiration: 1937-08-10

Description

0. W. BRENIZER.

CABLE SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED SEPTLZEL 1917.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920 .Ihveni'or: 076072 Wflrenz'zar. y gr ,fliiiarne y.

'and combinations of ORSON W. BRENIZER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-FIFTH T0 AN'DREW V. GROUPE,

OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CABLE-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

Application filed September 25, 1917. Serial No. 193,067.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORsoN V. BRENIZER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cable-Supports, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in cable supports adapted to be supported in spaced relation to each other on a suitable supporting wire and to support a cable eX- tending therethrough.

The object of my invention is to provide a support of novel, inexpensive and efficient construction which may be formed of a single piece of wire, and which when applied, will firmly clamp the supporting wire in a manner to prevent displacement of the support when in service and when a cable is drawn therethrough.

lVith this and related objects in view, my invention consists in the novel construction parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the. accompanying drawings illustrating my invention:

Figure 1 is a face View of a cable support embodying my invention and applied to a supporting wire, the supporting wire being shown in section.

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a top View thereof.

Fig. 4 is a view showing the position to which the parts of the cable support are sprung before being applied to a supporting wire.

Referring to the drawings, the cable support 2 comprises a loop 3 having end portions 4 and 5,

hooks

6, 7 and 8 and an arm 9.

The support 2 is preferably formed of a single piece of spring wire bent to form the loop 3 with its end portions 4% and 5, then bent to form the hook 7, then bent to form the arm 9, and then bent to form the hook 8, as clearly shown in the drawings.

The

hooks

6 and 7 form continuations of the end portions 4.- and 5, respectively, of the loop 3, the hook 8 forms a continuation of the arm 9 and extends therefrom on lines following the lines of the hook 7 in spaced relation thereto, and the hook 6 is adapted to be hooked around the arm 9 between the hooks 7 and 8, as clearly illustrated.

The support 2 is adapted to be applied to neath the same and is adapted to receive the cable, indicated at 11, the end portions 4 and 5 of the loop 3 cross each other beneath the wire 10, the hook 7 is hooked around the wire 10 from one side thereof, the hook 6 is hooked around the wire 10 from the opposite side thereof and also around the arm 9, and the hook S is hooked around the wire 10 the same as hook 7.

The normal condition of the support 2 is shown by full lines in Fig. 4, and, in ap plying the support 2 to the wire 10, the loop 3 is grasped by the hand and the parts are sprung into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. i. The hooks 7 and 8 are then hooked over and around the wire 10 from one side thereof, and the hook 6 is then hooked from the opposite side thereof, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

VJ hen the support 2 is thus applied to the wire 10, the spring action of the wire forming the loop 3 presses the hook 6 and the hooks 7 and 8 toward the wire 10 from opposite sides thereof pressing the hooks 7 and 8 firmly into engagement with the wire 10 and pressing the bottom of the hook 6 against the bottom of the wire 10 and the top of the hook 6 against the top of the arm 9; and the support 2 is thus firmly clamped to and held in place upon the wire 10 in a manner to prevent displacement of the support relatively to the wire.

When the cable 11, resting upon the bottom of the loop 3, is drawn therethrough in the direction of the arrow 12 in Fig. 2, the engagement of the

spaced hooks

6 and 7 with the wire 10, and the engagement of the hook 6 with the arm 9 will prevent the tilting of the bottom of the loop 3 in the direction of the arrow 12; and, when the cable 11 is drawn through the loop 3 in the direction of the arrow 13, the engagement of the spaced hooks 6 and 8 with the wire 10, and the engagement of the hook 5 with the arm 9 will prevent the tilting of the bottom of the loop 3 in the direction of the arrow 13.

The top and bottom arms of the hook 6 .are made to diverge from the closed end of the hook, as illustrated, so that as the sup port 2 tends to resume its normal condition after being applied to the wire 10, the arms of the hook 6 will bind the wire 10 and the around the arm 9 and the wire 10 arm 9 between them, irrespectively of any irregularities which may occur in the wire 10 and arm 9;

I claim:

1. A cable support comprising a cable receiving loop adapted to extend transversely beneath a supporting wire, a hook on one end portion of said loop, an arm extending laterally from said hook, a hook on the other end portion of said loop, said hooks facing different directions and being adapted to be hooked around said wire from opposite sides thereof, the last named hook be beneath a supporting wire,

ing adapted to cooperate with said arm and said wire to lockthe first named hook upon said wire. 7

2. A cable support comprising a cable receiving loop adapted to extend transversely a pair of laterally spaced hooks one of which is connected to one end portion of saidloop, an arm connecting the hooks of said pair, a hook connected to the other end portion of said loop, said pair of hooks and said hook facing different directions, and being adapted to be hooked around said wire from opposite sides thereof, and said hooks being adapted to cooperate with said arm and said wire to lock said pair of hooks upon said wire.

3. A cable support comprising a cable-receiving loop adapted to extend transversely beneath a supporting wire, a hook on one end portion of the loop and adapted to be hooked over and to engage saidwire and having an arm extending therefrom in the direction of said wire, and a hook on the other end portion of the loop and adapted to be hooked around said arm.

4. A cable support comprising a cable-receiving loop adapted to extend transversely beneath a supporting wire and having end portions adapted to cross each other beneath said wire, one of said end portions terminates in a hook adapted to be hooked over said wire from one side thereof, the other of said end portionsterminating in a hook adapted to be hooked over said wire from the other side thereof, and one of said hooks having an arm extending laterally therefrom in the direction of said wire, and through the other of said hooks, and a hook on said arm and following the lines of the first named hook in spaced relation thereto and adapted to be hooked over and to engage said wire.

5. A cable support formed of a single piece of wire bent'to form ahook adapted to engage a supporting wire, then bent to form a cable-receiving loop adapted to extend transversely beneath said wire, then bent to form a second hook adapted to extend over and engagesaid wire, then bent to form an arm extending in the direction of said wire'and through the first named hook, and then bent to form a third hook adapted to engage said wire.

In testimony whereofl affix my signature hereto.

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