The Whitaker Corporation

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Robert E Stough

William J Garver

Francis J Shay

Scott A Keener

David R Radliff

Carl M Bruckner

Scott Allan Strickler

Edward R Koot

The invention comprises a sealing grommet having a body made of an elastomeric material. The body has two halves to be assembled together in a sealing arrangement. The halves have a cable receiving opening extending therethrough from one side to another side. The opening has an outer diameter with a series of pliable webs extending inwardly into the opening to form a cable receiving channel. The webs in a center of the halves are larger and extend further into the opening than the webs along the sides of the halves thereby making the channel narrower in the center of the halves than along the sides of the halves to enable a sealing relationship to be formed about a variety of cable sizes.

Grommet for a fiber optic enclosure

A splice holder (24) having first channels (70) having upper and lower portions (80,82) separated by a constriction (76) with each portion adapted to hold a respective single-fiber splice coupling (84) . Second channels (90) have a large diameter adapted to hold a multi-fiber mass fusion splice coupling (94) used with ribbon cable. Both the first and second channels (70,90) having constrictions along their entrances of less width than a splice coupling (84,94) to be inserted thereinto. Splice holder (24) may be adhered to a bottom wall (14) of a splice tray (10).

Holding for optical fiber splice couplings

An enclosure (10) for junctions of telephone service wires (18,19) and a stub cable (16) includes a rear panel member (20) and a front cover (100) adapted to be slid downwardly to expose the interior of the enclosure for wire interconnection and servicing. Wire-receiving openings (40,42) of the enclosure are organized in linear arrays and are sealed by a pair of elastomeric strips (80,90;44,46) held against the enclosure wall by bracket members (50,48), with one strip (90) having small diameter holes (92) for just fitting around a wire, and the other (80) having slits (82) which remain closed if no wire is inserted into a particular opening, with both the small diameter holes and slits aligned between the enclosure openings and openings (52) through the bracket members. Certain bracket members (50) are mounted to the outer surface of the rear wall (22) of the rear panel member (20) along side edges (32) thereof to define vertical channels (66), and flanges (118,120) of side walls (112,114) of the front cover (100) fit thereinto for guided sliding of the front cover during opening and closing.

Telephone junction enclosure and system for sealing a wire opening array

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Harrisburg, PA, United States of America

Robert E Stough