Patent ID: 8286309

Claim:
A cable termination for a median barrier cable made of three bundles of twisted wires, the three bundles being twisted together to form a wire rope having three lobes, each lobe being formed by one of the bundles, the cable termination comprising a tubular body with a cable opening in at least one end into which an end of the median barrier cable can be inserted, a wedge gripper having three sections for gripping the end of the median barrier cable within the tubular body, the wedge gripper having a tapering outer surface that mates with a tapered inner surface of the tubular body and having a toothed inner diameter, and a threaded cap having external threads screwed to internal threads in an end of the tubular body opposite from the cable opening, and a washer between the threaded cap and an end of the wedge gripper against which the threaded cap bears to exert an axial force on the end of the wedge gripper, wherein the washer has a shank that engages a bore of the threaded cap and the washer is rotatable relative to the threaded cap as the threaded cap is turned relative to the body, and wherein screwing the threaded cap into the body forces the tapering outer surface of the wedge gripper axially against the tapered inner surface of the tubular body to force the toothed inner diameter of the wedge gripper to contract against the three lobes of the median barrier cable so as to grip the median barrier cable in the body.