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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1986
Eric R Campbell, Alpharetta, GA (US);
Joe B Moss, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, AT&T Technologies, Inc., Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A cable closure includes two spaced end plugs (110-110) through which cable nd portions extend and two cover portions (60-60) which are mated together along tongue and groove portions and held together by C-shaped clamps that engage the tongue and groove portions. Conductors of the cables are spliced together and enclosed in a membranous container (40) which subsequently is caused to be filled with an encapsulant. The cover portions, which in a preferred embodiment are identical, include internally disposed plates each having spaced end strap portions which secure the cable end portions extending through the end plugs into the closure at locations external to the membranous container and prevent unintended lateral, longitudinal and torsional movement of the splice work relative to the encapsulant. This is particularly important when as here the closure is filled with an encapsulant and relative movement between the cable portions and encapsulant is to be avoided to maintain the integrity of the encapsulant and prevent the ingress of moisture.