Cable connecting assembly

• US 3,905,711 A
• Filed: 10/31/1974
• Issued: 09/16/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: INDRESCO, Inc. (RHI Magnesita NV)
• Original Assignee: James B. Rogers
• Inventors: Rogers, James B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kundrat, Andrew V.
• Application Number:
  US05/519,775
• Time in Patent Office: 320 Days
• Field of Search: 403/210,211,213,16 24/115M,136K
• US Class Current: 403/16
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 11/048 by moving a surface into the cable
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3996 Sliding wedge

Abstract

A cable connecting assembly generally consisting of a socket member having a passageway therethrough including converging, cable engaging surfaces and means for securing the socket member to a desired object and a wedge assembly receivable within the passageway of the socket member including a pair of wedge members and a spreader member, the spreader member having a pair of converging, wedge engaging surfaces, a forwardly projecting anvil disposed at a forward end thereof, extending beyond a forward end of the socket member when the wedge assembly is disposed within the passageway of the socket, and a cable engaging surface disposed at a rearward end thereof, each of the wedge members including a surface engagable with a wedge engaging surface of the spreader member and a surface engagable with a cable segment engaging a converging surface of the socket member when the wedge assembly is disposed within the passageway of the socket member.

Claims

1. A cable connecting assembly comprising a socket member having a passageway therethrough including converging, cable segment engaging surfaces and means for securing said socket member to a desired object, and a wedge assembly receivable within the passageway of said socket member including a pair of wedge members and a wedGe shaped spreader member therebetween, said spreader member having a pair of converging, wedge seating surfaces, a forwardly projecting anvil disposed at the narrow forward end thereof, extending beyond a forward end of and outside said socket member when said wedge assembly is disposed within the passageway of said socket member, and a cable engaging surface disposed at the wide rearward end thereof, each of said wedge members including a surface engagable with a wedge seating surface of spreader member and a surface engagable with a cable segment engaging a converging surface of said socket member when said wedge assembly is disposed within the passageway of said socket member.

2. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 1, wherein said socket member includes a pair of transversely spaced side walls and said securing means comprise rearwardly extending portions of said side walls, providing a bifurcated end portion of said socket member, said bifurcated end portion including transversely aligned, pin receiving openings.

3. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 1 wherein said cable engaging surface of said spreader member is arcuate.

4. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 1 wherein said wedge and spreader members include grooves defining said cable engaging surfaces.

5. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 4 wherein said grooves and said cable engaging surfaces of said socket member are provided with semi-circular cross-sectional configurations.

6. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 4 wherein the surfaces of said grooves merge into each other to form a continuous peripheral groove for receiving a cable segment about the wedge assembly in wrap-around relation.

7. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 4 wherein said spreader member is provided with a transversely disposed groove communicating with the cable receiving groove thereof to expose additional side surface portions of the cable segment disposed in the cable receiving groove of said spreader member.

8. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 1 wherein each of said wedge members includes a pair of transversely spaced, guide arm portions which engage side surfaces of said spreader member when said wedge member is mounted on said spreader member in assemblied relation.

9. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 8, wherein sides of said spreader member are relieved to provide surfaces engagable by said guide arm portions.

10. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 1 wherein each of said wedge members includes a recess for receiving an inner portion of said anvil when said wedge assembly is in the assemblied condition.

11. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 1 wherein said anvil is provided with abutment means engagable by front end portions of said wedge members when said engaging surfaces of said wedge members are positioned on said wedge seating surfaces of said spreader member.

12. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 11, wherein said abutment means comprises a grommet fitted on said anvil.

13. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 1 wherein each of said wedge members includes a forwardly disposed mating surface having a plane intersecting the plane of the spreader member engaging surface thereof, engageable with a similar surface on the other of said wedge members when said wedge assembly is in the assemble condition.

14. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 13 wherein the spreader member seating surface and mating surface of each of said wedge members includes a recess for receiving an inner portion of said anvil therein when said wedge and spreader members are in assemblied relation.

15. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 14 wherein said anvil has a cylindrical cross-sectional configuration for the greater part of its length, and the anvil receiving recess of each of said wedge members has an arcuate cross-sectional configuration.

16. A cable connecTing assembly according to claim 14 wherein said wedge members have cooperating hinge components when in assemblied relation, having a hinge axis coinciding with the line of intersection of the planes of said spreader member seating surface and said mating surface of each of said wedge members.

17. A cable connecting assembly according to claim 16 wherein said hinge means comprises a laterally offset, rounded projection on each of said wedge members received in a similarly configured recess in the other of said wedge members when said wedge members are disposed in assemblied relation.