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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2000
Jess Britton Ferrill, Madison, NC (US);
W. Joe Mills, Troutman, NC (US);
Jerry Douglas Morgan, China Grove, NC (US);
CommScope Properties, LLC, Sparks, NV (US);
Abstract
A hanger for mounting a cable to a support structure includes a flexible resilient unitary metallic strip. The strip has a medial portion shaped in a generally circular configuration about a longitudinal axis to form a cable holding section defining a longitudinally extending passageway for receiving and at least partially surrounding the cable. The strip has attachment legs extending from opposite ends of the medial portion in opposing spaced apart relation to one another generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The attachment legs are configured for being inserted into an installation opening. The cable holding section includes a first circumferentially extending slot extending at least partially around the circumferential extent of the passageway, and a pair of second circumferentially extending slots formed in the cable holding section on opposite sides of the first slot. The first slot and the pair of second slots define in the cable holding section along opposite sides of the first slot a pair of torsion springs extending at least partially around the passageway and capable of torsional deflection, a pair of bands adjacent the second slots, and at least one cantilevered gripping tab projecting from each torsion spring laterally into the adjoining second slot and oriented for grippingly engaging the surface of a cable placed in the passageway. The bands extend circumferentially at least partially around the passageway. A gripping protrusion is formed in each gripping tab and faces inwardly toward the passageway for gripping the surface of a cable placed in the passageway.