Patent ID: 7452157
Filing Date: 2008-11-18
Classification: H02G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A connecting butt strap for butt jointing a first and a second wire cable tray, each wire cable tray of the two wire cable trays comprising warp wires and weft wires including end weft wires, said connecting butt strap comprising: a body having two opposing flanges and an intermediate portion between said two flanges; a clipping tab extending from said intermediate portion, a first lateral edge of said clipping tab and a first one of said two flanges defining a first clipping portion therebetween adapted for clipping said connecting butt strap to a first end weft wire of the first wire cable tray; a tongue extending from a distal end of one of said two flanges, aligned with said first one of said two flanges and adapted to be bent over the first end weft wire of the first wire cable tray, said first clipping portion and said tongue being adapted for rotatably mounting the connecting butt strap on the first wire cable tray; and a second opposing lateral edge of said clipping tab and a second one of said two flanges defining a second clipping portion therebetween adapted for engagement with a first end weft wire of the second wire cable tray for assembling the first and second wire cable trays together; and a locking rim connected to the other one of said two flanges and co-operable with a warp wire of the second wire cable tray to maintain said connecting butt strap in a connecting position when said second clipping portion is in engagement with the first end weft wire of the second wire cable tray, wherein said locking rim comprises a locking lug adapted to be bent over a warp wire to lock the connecting butt strap in the connecting position, and wherein the locking lug is in alignment with a longitudinal groove in said locking rim.