Saddle mount

• US 6,533,226 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2001
• Issued: 03/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hellermanntyton Corporation (Aptiv PLC)
• Original Assignee: Hellermanntyton Corporation (Aptiv PLC)
• Inventors: Geiger, Gerard G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHULTERBRANDT, KOFI A
• Application Number:
  US09/999,901
• Publication Number:
  US 20020084388A1
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 248/68.1, 248/49, 248/74.1, 248/74.2, 248/74.3
• US Class Current: 248/74.3
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/233 by means of a flexible band
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/237 for two pipes

Abstract

A mounting assembly for securing one or more elongated items to a structural member. In one embodiment, the assembly may include a saddle mount device, a button head cable tie and may include one or more conventional cable ties. The saddle mount has at least one primary funnel-shaped aperture and may include additional apertures. The button head cable tie secures or cradles the elongate items to the saddle mount and secures the saddle mount to the structural member. The saddle mount base mates with the structural member. The resulting assembly holds the items in a spaced-apart relationship from the structural member. The conventional cable ties may be used to secure additional items to the saddle mount. Alternate embodiments include an integral or separate mounting member to affix the mounting assembly to the structural member.

Claims

1. A mounting assembly for securing an object to a support member, said support member including a first side and a second side and an aperture communicating with each;

of said sides, said assembly comprising;

an elongated tie including a strap portion and a headed portion, said strap potion being arranged to be received by the aperture of said support member and further being arranged to circumscribe said object, and said headed portion being arranged to abut said first side of said support member; and

a saddle mount including an aperture and being interposed between said object and said support member, said saddle mount having a first surface and a second surface, said first surface being arranged for supporting engagement with said object and said second surface being adapted for supporting engagement with said second side of said support member.

2. The assembly of claim 1 wherein the distal end of said strap portion of said elongated tie is arranged to extend through said saddle mount aperture and to surround said object and further to be arranged to reenter said saddle mount aperture;

and

said elongated tie further including means for retaining the reentered portion of said strap portion.

3. The assembly of claim 1 wherein oppositely disposed side surfaces of said saddle mount are each provided with laterally extending support ribs.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said headed portion of said elongate tie includes an opening there through, the opening being smooth-walled and substantially wedge-shaped in cross-section;

and

said strap extending through said opening and having a wedge-shaped head at one end conforming generally to the shape of said opening and further having a plurality of teeth on the wedge-shaped head and teeth on each side of said strap.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said teeth extend substantially transversely across the strap.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein said teeth extend substantially transversely across the wedge-shaped head.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said elongated tie and said saddle mount are each formed of injection molded plastic material.

8. A saddle mount device for securing at least one bundled article including a tie strap to a support member, said device arranged to be secured to said support member, said device arranged to be located between said support member and said bundled article, and wherein said device includes a bottom surface and oppositely disposed sidewalls, each sidewall being disposed angularly relative to said bottom surface, and each sidewall being arranged to support a respective one of a pair of said bundled articles, and each of said sidewalls including an inner wall surface defining a through passage for receiving a portion of the tie strap of said respective one of said pair or bundled articles and wherein said device includes a top wall having a top outer arched surface, said top outer surface arranged to support a third bundled article and a transverse passageway arranged to receive a portion of the tie strap of said third bundled article.

9. A saddle mount device for securing at least one bundled article including a tie strap to a support member, said device arranged to be secured to said support member, said device arranged to be located between said support member and said bundled article, and wherein said support member includes an opening therein and wherein said saddle mount device includes a bottom surface and an integrally formed supporting stud extending from said bottom surface and having series of longitudinally spaced barbs arranged to permit entrance of said stud into said opening of said support member, said barbs being arranged to engage the surface of said opening to resist withdrawal of said stud from said opening and said saddle mount device further including a primary reentrant bore.

10. The saddle mount device of claim 9 wherein said reentrant bore includes an upstanding tension tab.