Patent ID: 9556973
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: E04D,F16L,H05B

Claim:
1. A system for securing a cable to a roof, including an apparatus comprising: the cable; a metal base panel; a continuous metal C-shaped channel integrally-formed with the base panel and comprising a first continuous channel wall and a second continuous channel wall; the first and second channel walls each having proximal and distal ends, and being integrally joined at their proximal ends and separated at their distal ends by a continuous gap; the continuous gap having an original gap width and an expanded gap width; the channel having a continuous internal cavity between the channel walls; wherein the gap may be increased from the original gap width to the expanded gap width by an outward flexing of the second continuous channel wall to enable receipt of the cable into the continuous internal cavity and will return to the original gap width of its own resiliency after receipt of the cable; the second continuous channel wall further comprising a continuous bulge at its distal end directed towards the distal end of the first continuous channel wall; wherein the bulge narrows the width of the C-shaped channel at the distal end, to retain the cable therein; wherein the continuous internal cavity conforms around the cable along at least the first and second continuous channel walls.