Strain-relief bushing for cables and the like

• US 4,056,252 A
• Filed: 04/10/1975
• Issued: 11/01/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hans Simon
• Original Assignee: Hans Simon
• Inventors: Simon, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bonck, Rodney H.
• Application Number:
  US05/567,114
• Time in Patent Office: 936 Days
• Field of Search: 248/56, 174/65 G, 174/152 G, 174/153 G, 285/158, 339/103 R, 339/103 B, 339/103 M
• US Class Current: 248/56
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 3/0683 with bolts operating in a direction transverse to the conductors

Abstract

A strain-relief bushing for cables, wires and the like has a body formed with an internal passage through which a cable or the like is adapted to extend, and which is bounded by a surface. A pressure exerting element exerts pressure upon the cable in the passage in a direction including an acute angle with the elongation of the passage and serves to press the cable against a portion of the aforementioned surface.

Claims

1. A strain-relief bushing for a cable or the like extending through an opening in a wall of a casing and being subjected to a longitudinal tension force, said bushing comprising a circumferentially complete body of an uninterrupted cross-section having an internal axial passage therethrough, through which a cable is adapted to extend and having an internal wall extending through said passage substantially parallel to the axis thereof and being connected only at one end to the remainder of said body, said internal wall being of one piece with said body and being movable only in a direction transverse to said axis, said body having a pair of opposite circular groove portions on the outer surface thereof located in a substantially common plane in which parts of said casing wall about said opening are engaged, said body having a threaded bore extending therethrough and so arranged that its axis encloses an acute angle with said axis of said axial passage and intersects said common plane of said groove portions;

and a threaded pressure-exerting element extending through said bore and exerting pressure against said internal wall at said acute angle relative to the same and in a direction against said tension force to thereby press said internal wall against the cable and to press thereby one of said groove portions into a corresponding portion of said casing wall about said opening, creating thereby a reaction force which presses the opposite groove portion likewise into a corresponding portion of said casing wall to thereby clamp the cable in said axial passage and said bushing in said opening in said casing wall.

2. A bushing as defined in claim 1, wherein said element is a screw.

3. A bushing as defined in claim 1, wherein said body is formed with an internal wall located in said passage and adapted to be pressed against the cable by said element, said internal wall having retaining ribs extending transversely to the elongation of said passage and adapted to engage the cable.

4. A strain-relief bushing for a cable or the like extending through an opening in a wall of a casing and being subjected to a longitudinal tension force, said bushing comprising a body having an internal axial passage therethrough, said body having a front end and a rear end and being provided with a pair of rearwardly extending clamping portions each having an outer periphery formed with sickle-shaped groove portions located in a substantially common plane in which ports of said casing wall about said opening are engaged, said clamping portions each having an inner periphery defining a further wedge-shaped axial passage therebetween through which a cable is adapted to extend and which communicates with said internal axial passage, said clamping portions being connected in the region of said front end by an elastically yieldable web, said body having an internal wall extending through said passages substantially parallel to the axis thereof and being connected to said body only at said front end thereof, said clamping portions and said internal wall being of one piece with said body, said body having a threaded bore extending therethrough and so arranged that its axis encloses an acute angle with said axis of said passages and intersects said common plane of said groove portions;

and a threaded pressure-exerting element extending through said bore and exerting pressure against said internal wall at said acute angle relative to said passages and in a direction against said tension force to thereby press said internal wall against the cable and to press thereby one of said groove portions into a corresponding portion of said casing wall about said opening, creating thereby a reaction force which presses the opposite groove portion likewise into a corresponding portion of said casing wall to thereby clamp the cable in said passages and said bushing in said opening of said casing wall.

5. A bushing as defined in claim 4, wherein said groove portions of said clamping portions each has a bottom wall portion, said clamping portions being movable between a proximate position and a distant position in dependence upon force to be applied thereto, and having the maximum common outer circumference in said proximate position corresponding to the common circumference of said bottom wall portions of said groove portions of said clamping portions in said distant position.