Patent ID: 7032867
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: E04B,E06B,F16G

Abstract:
1. A cable clamp in a generally horizontal condition and mountable to a supporting structure for clampingly engaging a cable or rope that supports a load, a base that includes a block of a longitudinal length greater than its transverse width, the block having an upwardly open channel extending the longitudinal length thereof for having the cable or rope extended therein the length of the block, the channel having a web surface and transversely spaced side walls, longitudinally spaced recesses opening upwardly through the web surface and transversely spaced lands that at least in part define the channel side walls, a longitudinally elongated cover having a top wall with perimetric edge portions, flanges dependingly joined to the top wall edge portions and having transversely opposite longitudinally elongated portions, a longitudinally elongated ridge dependingly joined to the top wall in transversely spaced, transversely centered relationship to the flange longitudinal portions, the maximum distance that the ridge depends from the cover top wall being less than the maximum distance the flanges depend from the top wall, the cover ridge being extendable into the base channel and having protrusions in about the same longitudinal spaced relationship as the recesses, the ridge, flanges and top wall defining a cavity on each transverse side of the ridge of a size and shape to have the base lands extendable thereinto to abut against the top wall, the base and cover having vertically aligned mounting screw apertures, and fasteners for securing the cover to the base for clamping the cable between the ridge and the base recesses.