Patent ID: 7115816

Claim:
A cable anchoring device for anchoring a cable on a wall, comprising, a first tie member, a first head on a first end thereof and having a bare second end, a second tie member having a first head on a first end thereof, a first head of said second tie member placed in a first hole in a wall and projected through that hole and said first head capable of being secured to the wall and having a first hole therethrough, the second tie member having a second head on its second end, and the second head having a second hole therethrough, the first head on the first tie member includes a cylindrical portion having a plurality of circumferentially spaced fingers extending longitudinally and capable of being spread radially outwardly into locking engagement with a wall, the second tie member having means for engaging said fingers for so spreading them, said cylindrical portion is hollow, the first tie member having a wedge shape first end, and its second end being capable of being inserted through the cylindrical portion and thereby through the first head on the second tie member, and in response to pulling the first tie member with its second end leading, the wedge shape first end is operable for actuating the spaced fingers, said anchoring device being for use with a panel having a front surface and a rear surface, and a hole therethrough perpendicular to those surfaces, the second tie member having a plate portion fitting against the front surface and limiting movement of the first head in insertion into the hole, the cylindrical portion having radially inwardly extending first gripping prongs longitudinally adjacent the inner surface of the panel, the first member having gripping grooves spaced longitudinally from the wedge end and positioned for operably engaging the first gripping prongs and thereby restraining movement of the first tie member in outward direction through the first hole in the second member, the portion of the first tie member other than the wedge has a length indefinitely greater than its circumference, the second head on the second tie member has a second hole therethrough, and the second end of the first tie member is capable of being inserted through the second hole, the inner surface of the second hole and the first tie member have interchangeable elements to retain the first tie member in drawn up position relative to the second head, said interchangeable elements include a protruding flexible finger on one side of the second hole, and that finger is spaced from the opposite side of the second hole a distance less than the thickness of the second tie member in corresponding direction.