Patent ID: 7172161
Filing Date: 2007-02-06
Classification: F16L,H02G,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A holder for elongated objects, such as pipes or cables, having a mounting portion for attaching the holder to a substrate, a pair of holder arms fixedly connected to one another at one end and providing a U-shaped holding portion with a trough open at the top to receive and support an elongated object longitudinally in the trough along a longitudinal axis of the trough parallel to a bottom wall of the trough, and having a slide defining a longitudinal extension of the trough along the longitudinal axis to receive and support the object longitudinally, wherein the slide has a retaining element movable from an open position to a closed position in response to movement of the slide longitudinally into the trough along the longitudinal axis, wherein, in the closed position, the retaining element at least partly closes an opening between free ends of the holder arms, wherein the U-shaped holding portion comprises a guide extending longitudinally of the trough between the arms of the holding portion along the longitudinal axis to guide the slide for movement longitudinally into the trough along the longitudinal axis, and the retaining element, in the open position, is located at least partly outside of the holding portion at one end of the guide, and is located inside the guide in the closed position.