Patent ID: 9643763
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B65D,F16B,F16L,H02G,Y02W,Y10T

Claim:
1. A reusable cable tie comprising: an elongated strap, made of semi-rigid plastic material, and a buckle, made of rigid plastic material and intended for interlocking with said elongated strap, said elongated strap comprising: said buckle having a shape of a rectangular parallelepiped incorporating a cavity delimited by top, bottom and lateral sides, an entrance and an exit; said cavity being so shaped and sized as to allow a passage through of said first or said second end of said elongated strap, or both when superposed; and, in order first to wrap and then to tighten said elongated strap around an object, said buckle is retained in said flat indented zone, at a lower part of said cavity, with its several teeth projecting upwardly; and after the tightening is completed, said first end of said elongated strap is inserted through said cavity, above said second end and, finally, said buckle is so displaced that said several teeth penetrate corresponding grooves of said multiplicity of grooves; said triangular shape being defined by an isosceles triangle; said one end of said elongated strap, incorporating said flat indented zone, being provided said elongated strap being provided laterally, at each side of said multiplicity of teeth and said multiplicity of grooves, starting from their bottoms, with an ascending slanted zone, followed by a flat zone, parallel to said elongated strap, then by an externally directed, descending slanted zone and, finally, terminates into a straight zone, perpendicular to said elongated strap; said flat indented zone including a short widened portion, preceded by a first retaining portion starting from said internal edge, said first retaining portion, lengthwise, having such a size that enables said buckle to be lodged there, when said reusable cable tie is in a final closed position; a second retaining portion succeeding said short widened portion that extends up to said external wedge, said second retaining portion, lengthwise, having such a size that enables said buckle to be lodged there during a wrapping of said reusable cable tie around an object; said short widened portion, being wider than said first retaining portion and said second retaining portion keeping said buckle in place either in said first retaining portion or in said second retaining portion, no hand being necessary therefore, to move said buckle from said first retaining portion to said second retaining portion or vice versa, a manual effort to move said buckle along said short widened portion being needed; and a ridge engaging tooth, projecting out along said cavity at midway of each said lateral sides, including intersecting sides for contacting said descending slanted zones, so that said buckle enables a passage of said elongated strap.