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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald Richard LaCoy, Boylston, MA (US);
Shannon Powers, Sterling, MA (US);
Assignee:
Smiths Group PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 3/3035 ; F16L 3/303 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 3/3035 ; F16L 3/303 ;
Abstract
A cable clamp has two identical moulded components that can be clamped together about a cable. Each component has a yoke with a ratchet bar at one end and two short arms at its opposite end spaced by a gap and having ratchet teeth on their inner faces. The ratchet bars on each component extend in the gap between the arms on the other component and the cable extends through the aperture between the two yokes and between the two ratchet bars. The yokes can be squeezed together about the cable, causing the ratchet bars to slide over the engaging teeth, which prevents the two components being subsequently separated.