Identification device for a conductor

• US 5,410,828 A
• Filed: 01/19/1993
• Issued: 05/02/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Telemecanique (Schneider Electric SE)
• Original Assignee: Telemecanique (Schneider Electric SE)
• Inventors: Makuc, Daniel, Millet, Jean-Marie
• Primary Examiner(s): GREEN, BRIAN
• Application Number:
  US08/006,130
• Time in Patent Office: 833 Days
• Field of Search: 40/306, 40/316, 40/317, 40/334, 40/665, 24/339, 24/543, 24/545, 439/491
• US Class Current: 40/316
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4482 Code or colour marking
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/202 for labels being formed by a combination of interchangeable elements, e.g. price labels G09F3/203 - G09F3/207 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 7/368 being a sleeve, ferrule, tag, clip, label or short length strip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44769 Opposed engaging faces on gripping member formed from single piece of resilient material

Abstract

An identification device for an electrical cable, optical conductor, or pneumatic pipe includes a sleeve (11) carrying or protecting an identifying element. A stopping element (15) is firmly attached to the sleeve (11) and has a hook (18) which acts as a resilient link shaped to fit around a portion of a jacket (13) surrounding the cable, conductor, or pipe.

Claims

1. Identification device for a conductor, pipe or cable having a jacket, comprising:

a sleeve-shaped support having therethrough an axial passage shaped to fit around a jacket of a cable to be identified, and

a stopping element, which carries at least one identifying element and which is firmly attached to the sleeve-shaped support, said stopping element including a hook formed at one end of the stopping element as a resilient link in order that the hook in a working position surrounds at least a portion of a circumference of a jacket received in said axial passage at a location where the hook in the working position is forced against the portion of the circumference of the jacket so that axial motion of the sleeve-shaped support is stopped, and wherein the stopping element is attached in a detachable manner to the sleeve-shaped support by at least one sufficiently long stud means for penetrating forcibly through a bore extending through the sleeve-shaped support.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the stopping element has a portion forming a plate means for carrying the identifying element.

3. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the stud means extends into said axial passage.

4. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the hook is connected to a remainder of the stopping element by a hinge of narrowed cross section.

5. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the hook is directly linked by a remainder of the stopping element in a pivoting elastic manner to the sleeve-shaped support.

6. The device as set forth in claim 5, wherein the hook is connected to the remainder of the stopping element by a hinge of narrowed cross section.

7. The device as set forth in claim 5, wherein the hook is molded flat together with the sleeve-shaped support and is bent when being mounted around the jacket of the cable.

8. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein the hook is molded flat together with a plate means for carrying the identifying element, said plate means forming a portion of the stopping element and being bent when the hook is inserted on a jacket of a cable and also when the plate means is mounted on the sleeve-shaped support.