US1804775A - Cabling clip - Google Patents

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May 12, 1931. 's. P. HULL ETAL CABLING CLIP Filed Sept. 4. 1929 INVENTOR BY +1; W59 TTORNEY CXM Patented May 12, 1931 i CABLING cm Application filed September This invention relates to conductors and particularly to conductors known as cables and more especially to a means which wlll be designated a cabling clip for securing the separate conductors oft-he cabletogether.

' A principal object of this invention is the provision of a device of the type specified which will be inexpensive to manufacture, easy to apply, eflicient in use and not harmful to the separate conductors making up the cable with which it is used.

Other objects and advantages will appear as thedescription of the particular physical embodiment selected to illustrate the invention progresses and the novel features of the invention will be particularly pointed out in the appended claim. 7 p

In describing the invention in detail, and the particular physical embodiment selected 7 to illustrate the invention, reference is had to the accompanying drawing, wherein has been illustrated a particular preferred physical embodiment of the invention, and wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a device embodying the invention together with supported conductors; Fig. 2, is a cross-sec- IIII of F 2 viewed in the direction of the "arrows at'the endsof the line; Fig. 3, is a cross-sectional view on the plane indicated by the line IIIIII of Fig.2 viewed in the direction of the arrows at the ends of the line; Fig. l, is a perspective viewvof a connecting plate used inrthe invention. I

Those acquainted with the practice in such arts, as for instance, railway signalling, know that at lntervals along a railway equipped bunch them together making what might bev called a cable. These wires are sometimes tional view on the plane indicated by the line 4;, 929} Seria1-.1 l'o. 390,224. 1

unsupported, bjut other-timesare supported bywhat is known as'messenger cable,tha't is, a stranded metallic cable is hung so as to allow the conductor wires-toIbe bunched together. and'be supported by themetalcable. The bunch of wir'es or cable o f-Wires must" be secured" together in some satisfactorymannor in order to present a neat'appearance and aid in preserving them from mechanical injury. The "cabling clip devised by-applicants isto serve the purpose of securingtogether such conductorsas have been hereinabove described. '7

Applicants cabling clip" comprises i two parts; a'fabricated metallic plate designated generally by'].; anda flexible cable surrounding member designated generally'by 2.;

In'order to fabricate the metallic plate 'Inem'ber' of ap'plicantsinvention it is first necessary toblank out a sheet of metal,'the general form of the blank being evident by an inspection of Fig.4. The blank is preferably formed with aport-ion' -3 of reduced width which is bent back upon itself so as to form a hook 4.

The main or wider portion of the blank is slotted at 5 and is also cut so that a plurality of tabs 6, 7 8 and 9 may be bent upwardly from the surface thereof, all as best shown in Fig. 4.

The cable surrounding member is preferably a textile member of ribbon form. It is QFFI SAMUEL PIERRE HULL, OF YONKERS, AND JOHN J. COB/COBALT, OF ALBANY,:NEW YORK,

AND FREDERICK C.'LAVARACK, OF MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEYf f I preferably formed of a length of webbing or woven material of great strength and duraa bility. One end 10 of the material as shown in Fig. 2, is passed through the centralslot 5 andthen bent back so as to lie against the surface of the plate 1 and then the tabs 6 and 7 are bent downwardly, thereby firmly securing the textile material and the plate together. The other end 11 of the textile material is also passed through the central slot 5 after being passed around the wires or conductors which are to be cabled and is then bent fiat down against the plate 1 and then the tabs 8 and 9 are pressed down wardly so as to hold the textile material or surrounding webbing securely in place. The. complete cabling clip surrounding a plurality of conductors is shown in Fig, 1,

The device as illustrated by the drawings is placed around the conductors at suitable intervals along their length and then the hook portion 4 is passed about a messenger or supporting cable 12 as shown in Fig. 2.

By, the use of this device the several unattached conductors commonly used in railway signalling extending from a pole to a device along the "trackway may be held ffimnlyit'or gether and "place so as to present fain'eat appearance and be adequately supported from a messenger cable as 12.

The device is inexpensive to make, readily applied by unskilled hands and'requiresno fto'ols other than those ordinarily carried by 7 {men doing railway signalling wiring, as the only tool required'to install the device-isa fpairof pliers.

' Although we 1 have particularly described the construction of one physical embodiment ofour-invention and explained the operation thereof, neverthless, we desire to have it un- 'derstoodftha-t, the form selected is merely illustrativeand does'not exhaust the possible physical embodiment of the ideaof means underlying our invention.

What we claim as new and desire to secure 7 -by: LettersP-atent of the United States, is:

Ina cabling clip,.-in combination a plate formed with a hook, a slot and tabs; a textile flexible ribbon like member having-both ends r pa ssing through-the slot and bent back to lie 'inopposite directions on the. plate and underneath the tabs. I v

JOHN :J. COIRCORAN. SAMUEL 'PIERREHULL. j FREDERICK C. :LAVARACK.

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