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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2000
Barry O. Page, Woodstock, GA (US);
Kevin L. Nelson, Cumming, GA (US);
Victor D. Potter, Cumming, GA (US);
Panduit Corp., Tinley Park, IL (US);
Abstract
A routing clamp for routing a bundle of elongated members along a mounting surface having an aperture therein. The clamp includes a bundling portion for bundling the elongated members, the bundling portion having a first end and a second end, a first receiving portion extending from the first end of the bundling portion, the first receiving portion including a first receiving aperture therethrough, a second receiving portion extending from the second end of the bundling portion, the second receiving portion including a second receiving aperture therethrough alignable with the first receiving aperture, a rivet portion extending generally perpendicularly from the second receiving portion, the rivet portion being configured to be received in the mounting surface aperture and retained therein such that the second receiving portion is generally flush with the mounting surface, the rivet portion including a rivet aperture aligned with the second receiving aperture, and a retention portion including a resiliently deformable resistance member, the clamp being mountable along the mounting surface by inserting the retention portion through the alignable first, second and rivet apertures, the deformable resistance member compressibly deforming as it travels through the apertures before resiliently expanding upon exiting the rivet aperture.