INSULATOR WITH CONDUCTOR PIERCING CLAMP FOR INSULATED CABLE

• US 3,674,916 A
• Filed: 03/16/1971
• Issued: 07/04/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dominick W. Langella
• Original Assignee: Dominick W. Langella
• Inventors: Langella, Dominick W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Askin, Laramie E.
• Application Number:
  US05/124,848
• Time in Patent Office: 476 Days
• Field of Search: 174/2,14R,168,169,172,145 24/81KK,135N 339/95R,95D,96,97R,263R,263L,264L
• US Class Current: 174/169
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 17/22 Fastening of conductors to insulator

Abstract

A clamp for securing an insulated or covered cable to a pole insulator. The clamp has provision for piercing the insulation of the cable and thereby directly connecting the clamp to the conductor of the cable, averting radio frequency discharges between the conductor and the clamp.

Claims

1. A clamp for securing an insulated cable to a pole insulator in insulated relation to a pole, said clamp consisting of a rigid metallic one piece saddle secured to said insulator, said saddle having a cable receptor area conforming to the shape of a cable, a rigid metallic one piece keeper having at least one cable receptor area conforming arcuately generally to the shape of a cable, said receptor areas being all less than semicircular, each of said keeper and said saddle including wings extending outwardly on either side of said receptor areas and well spaced apart at facing surfaces when a cable is installed, metallic bolt means clamping said keeper wings to said saddle wings, and at least one tooth extending radially of one of said cable receptor areas and shaped and sized to pierce the insulation or cover of a cable sufficiently to mate well within the conductor of a cable, said at least one tooth being integral with one of said keeper and saddle.

2. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said at least one cable receptor is two cable receptors having diverse areas designed to conform to cables of diverse diameters.