Patent ID: 6201922
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: G02B,H02G

Abstract:
A sealed equipment box, in particular a splice box, including a first portion having an opening which is closed off in sealed manner by a second portion with which at least one linear gasket is associated, which linear gasket is positioned between the portions in a zone of the first portion against which the second portion abuts at the edge of the opening, and also at least one insertion slot for receiving an electrical and/or optical cable, opening out in the first portion at said edge in the abutment zone against which the second portion abuts, through which zone the linear gasket passes, the slot enabling the cable to be inserted transversely, without any threading being necessary, into the first portion of the box when said box is open, wherein the first portion carries a sealing neck positioned at an insertion slot so that the neck surrounds said slot except in the direction in which the slot opens out at the edge of the opening, and where said neck is provided with a longitudinal slot enabling the cable to be inserted into it transversely, and wherein the neck receives a sealing member, referred to as the ""neck gasket"", formed by a sleeve, one end of which is provided with a laterally projecting element that is placed at the edge of the opening and in an insertion slot so as to guarantee that the box is sealed at this level by providing continuity for the abutment zone for the linear gasket, when the sleeve as positioned around the cable is pushed into the neck, against the inside wall of which the sleeve abuts in sealed manner under the action of a presser device which is mounted at the end of the neck so as to compress simultaneously the sleeve in the neck and a cable gasket in an axial cavity in the sleeve, said cable gasket being mounted and compressed around the cable inside the axial cavity of the sleeve against which it is pressed in sealed manner.