Patent ID: 8282080

Claim:
A method of installing overhead cable in a building comprising: providing a plurality of cabling devices, each cabling device having an automated cable release system; attaching the plurality of cabling devices to various points on an overhead structure of a building along a cabling pathway; providing a closed-loop pulley system along the cabling pathway, the closed-loop pulley system having a rotatable pull string looped through the plurality of cabling devices, the pull string allowing attachment thereto of one or more cables to be pulled; attaching one or more cables to the pull string at a location that is before a first cabling device of the plurality of cabling devices; rotating the pull string in a forward direction of travel to feed the one or more attached cables through each one of the plurality of cabling devices beginning from the first cabling device; actuating the automated cable release system of each one of the plurality of cabling devices after the pull string has fed the one or more cables through each one of the plurality of cabling devices whereby the one or more cables are released from each one of the plurality of cabling devices and into each one of a plurality of cabling attachment ties, each tie associated with a respective cabling device; and attaching each one of the cabling attachment ties to an overhead structure of the building along the cabling pathway.