Patent ID: 7823345

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: an anchor body having a cavity formed in an interior thereof; a tendon extending into said cavity, said tendon having a sheathing extending at least partially thereover, said tendon having a sheathed portion and an unsheathed portion; a pair of wedges engaged with said unsheathed portion of said tendon in said cavity of said anchor body; and a unitary wedge member engaged with said sheathing of said sheathed portion, said wedge member having a longitudinal split extending from one end of said wedge member to an opposite end of said wedge member, said wedge member having an exterior surface, said exterior surface of said wedge member having a biting means for biting into an inner surface of said sheathing of said sheathed portion, said cavity of said anchor body having a tapered portion so as to have wide end opening at one end of said anchor body and a narrow end interior of said anchor body, said cavity having a passageway extending from said narrow end so as to open at an opposite end of said anchor body, said wedge member positioned in said passageway, said pair of wedges extending along said tapered portion of said cavity, said anchor body having a polymeric encapsulation extending thereover, said polymeric encapsulation defining a trumpet extending outwardly of said anchor body in axial alignment with said cavity, said trumpet having a seal extending around an interior thereof so as to be in liquid-tight sealing relation with said sheathed portion of said tendon.