An Improved Device for Suspending Electric Cables or Conductors.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 21st Sept., 1892-Accepted, 12th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Suspending Electric Cables or Conductors..
I HENRY EDMUNDS of 39 Victoria Street in the City of Westminster
Electrical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists of an improved device adapted to be used for suspending
electric cables or conductors from supports such as overhead rods or wires or other
supports with which it can be conveniently used.
According to my invention the device consists of hook shaped pieces reversely
placed so that the opening of the one is in an opposite direction to the opening of
the other and they between them form a loop as viewed from their sides. They
are provided or formed with an eye or equivalent means by which they can be
attached or connected to the support. I preferably form the device of stout wire
bent into the aforesaid double hook form at the two ends and turned over at top
so as to form an eye and so also that the hooks are situated side by side but with
their springs reversely placed. The suspension is preferably effected by a loop
which may consist of a strip of leather raw hide or the like with an opening at one
end through which the other end is passed thus forming a loop the said other end
being provided with an eyeletted hole through which the eye of the double hook
device passes. The introduction of the cable or conductor into the device is
conveniently effected by passing the opposite sides of the two reversely placed
hooks over the cable or conductor till it is above the ends of the said hooks and
then by turning the device at right angles the cable or conductor rests in the two
hooks each hook acting as a guard to prevent the cable or conductor becoming
disengaged from the opposite hook.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Suspending Electric Cables or Conductors.
I HENRY EDMUNDS of 39 Victoria Street in the City of Westminster
Electrical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists of an improved device for suspending electric cables or
conductors from supports such as overhead rods or wires or other supports with
which it can be conveniently used.
According to my invention the device consists of hook shaped pieces reversely
placed so that the opening of the one is opposite the opening of the other and they,
between them, form a loop as viewed from their sides. They are provided, or
formed, with an eye or equivalent means of attachment. I preferably form the
device of stout wire bent into the aforesaid double hook form at the two ends and
turned over so as to form an eye and so also that the hooks are situated side by
side but with their openings reversely placed. The suspension is preferably
effected by a loop which may consist of a strip of leather, raw hide, or the like,
with an opening towards one end through which the other end is passed thus
forming a loop, the other end being provided with an eyeletted hole through which
the eye of the double hook device passes. The supporting of the cable by the
device may be effected by causing the opposite sides of the reversely placed hooks

page_text: to pass over the supporting wire or rod till the ends of the hooks are above the
said wire or rod and then by turning the device at right angles, the said hooks rest
upon the wire or rod the cable being beld in the loop formed by the aforesaid strip
of leather, or raw hide.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown a device made according to my
invention in, what I consider, its best, and simplest form and I will describe my
invention with reference to these drawings.
Figure 1 is a side view of the device;
Figure 2 shews the device being passed up ready to be afterwards brought into
position for resting upon the supporting rod or wire;
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Figure 3 shews the cable in its supported position and
Figure 4 shews a length of cable supported by the devices from an overhead rod
or wire.
According to my invention the device consists of hook shaped pieces, A A²
reversely placed, so that the opening a of the one, is in an opposite direction to the
opening of the other and they, between them, form a loop (as at B) as viewed
from the side. They are provided, or formed, with an eye (as at C) or equivalent
means by which they can be attached or connected to the strip or support which
holds the cable. I preferably form the device of a stout galvanized steel wire bent
into the aforesaid double hook form at the two ends and turned over so as to form
an eye, and so also that the hooks are situated side by side but with their openings
reversely placed, but I do not limit myself to making the said hooks of one piece of
wire as shewn.
The suspension of the cable is preferably effected by a loop which may consist of
a strip D of leather, raw hide, or the like, with a slot or opening d towards one
end through which the other end ³ is passed thus forming a loop at the said
other end being provided with an eyeletted hole through which the eye (C) of
the double hook device passes. The introduction of the suspending wire into the
device is conveniently effected by passing the reversely placed hooks over the said.
suspending wire so that the sides of the hooks pass over the opposite sides of the said
wire as shewn in Figure 2 till the ends of the said hooks are above the said wire
and then, by turning the device at right angles, the said hooks rest on the said
wire as shewn in Figures 3 and 4. As the devices are attached to the cable E at
convenient distances apart by the loops of the strips D embracing the cable the
said cable is thus readily and conveniently suspended or removed as required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed declare that what 1.
claim is :-
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1. A device for suspending electric cables, or conductors, the said device
consisting of reversely placed hooks arranged relatively to each other substantially
as herein before described.
2. A device for suspending electric cables, or conductors, the said device
consisting of reversely placed hooks arranged relatively to each other as described,
and provided with a strip of raw hide, or other material, constituting a loop
substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. A device for suspending electric cables, or conductors, the said device being
made as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of Santoinhor 1800
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.