Cable tie

• US 5,911,367 A
• Filed: 05/07/1998
• Issued: 06/15/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gregory Charles Mcinerney
• Original Assignee: Gregory Charles Mcinerney
• Inventors: McInerney, Gregory Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): Brittain, James R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SANDY, ROBERT JOHN
• Application Number:
  US09/074,330
• Time in Patent Office: 404 Days
• Field of Search: 24/16 R, 24/16 PB, 24/17 A, 24/17 AP, 24/30.5 P, 248/74.3
• US Class Current: 24/16.0PB
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 63/1072 the barb having a plurality of serrations
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/141 Plastic bands
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1498 Plastic band

Abstract

A tie having a receptacle with an aperture there through, a lower edge of which includes at least one or more saw teeth or the like members which can engage with similar saw teeth members on the underside of a free end of the tie as it passes through the aperture, which lower edge is parallel to the surface of the body of the tie so that the free end, on connection, lies effectively on the periphery of the tie. The free end of the tie may be positively directed downwards towards the body of the tie as it passes through the receptacle by the provision of an upper inner curved surface within the aperture in the receptacle.

Claims

1. A tie, comprising:

a receptacle having an aperture therethrough, said aperture having a lower edge which includes at least one or more saw teeth members, said aperture further including an upper inner curved surface; and

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a free end of a tie element, said free end having an underside with at least one or more saw teeth members which are engageable with said at least one or more saw teeth members of said aperture of said receptacle as said free end of said tie element passes through said aperture of said receptacle, said lower edge of said aperture being parallel to a surface of a body of said tie element, so that said free end of said tie element, on connection, is positively directed downwards toward said body of said tie element as said free end of said tie element passes through said receptacle by the provision of said upper inner curved surface within said aperture in said receptacle.

2. The tie according to claim 1, wherein exterior sides of said receptacle are provided with thumb and finger grips.

3. The tie according to claim 1, wherein said saw teeth members on the underside of said free end of said tie element extend over a substantial portion of the length of said tie element.

4. The tie according to claim 1, wherein said tie is constructed from metal.

5. The tie according to claim 1, wherein said tie is constructed from a synthetic substance.

6. A method for securing cables to one another, said method comprising the step of:

connecting a receptacle having an aperture therethrough, said aperture having a lower edge which includes at least one or more saw teeth members, to a free end of a tie element, said free end having an underside with at least one or more saw teeth members which are engageable with said at least one or more saw teeth members of said aperture of said receptacle as said free end of said tie element passes through said aperture of said receptacle, said lower edge of said aperture being parallel to a surface of a body of said tie element, so that said free end of said tie element, on connection, is positively directed downwards toward said body of said tie element as said free end of said tie element passes through said receptacle by the provision of an upper inner curved surface within said aperture in said receptacle.