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Cable-and-sleeve connector

  • US 4,598,809 A
  • Filed: 01/23/1985
  • Issued: 07/08/1986
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/23/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A cable and a sleeve connector in which one end of the cable is connected to an actuation member and the other end is connected to a controlled member, and the sleeve extends along a curved, deformable, path between two anchors to which it is connected, the end of the sleeve remote from the controlled member is rigid and externally serrated, the anchor corresponding to that end of the sleeve provides an opening through which the cable passes and that tapers away from the controlled member, and the connection between the sleeve and the anchor means is effected by collet members disposed around the sleeve and having internal serrations that mate with the serrations of the sleeve and of which the external surfaces are tapered away from the controlled member and pivotally mounted at the wider ends about a mounting such that the collet members mate, and are wedged, within the opening, means being provided to urge the collet members towards this engaged condition, and means being provided that, when the actuation member is operative, permits engagement of the collet members with the sleeve and opening and that, as the actuation member moves to its inoperative condition, acts on the collet members to move them outwardly out of engagement with the sleeve, the collet members being so constrained at the mounting that their wider ends can move outwardly only to an extent that just permits the rigid parts of the sleeve to move axially of itself relatively to the collet members.

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