Wire-routing device
US4514004A · kind A · utility
Inventor
Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 14, 1983 |
| Grant date | Apr 30, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 14, 2003 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB25B9/00
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A device for snagging a length of free-hanging flexible wire at an end and retaining the wire therein as the wire is routed across an inaccessible area. The device comprises an angulated hook having a pair of opposed edges meeting in an acute angle. The edges are provided with friction means positioned to face the interior region of the angulated hook for holding a wire or the like in the apical region of the hook. In the preferred embodiment the edges are provided by the opposing sides of a pair of elongate arms, and the friction means is provided by a pair of longitudinally extending planar surfaces meeting at an apex to define a knife-edge on the inner side of each arm, the knife-edges being positioned to oppose one another so that a length of wire snagged between the arms will be retained there by friction with the knife-edges.
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