Abstract: A cable tie includes a head having an elongate passage therethrough and a strap insertable into the head. The head includes a metallic barb supported therein which extends into the passage for locking engagement with the strap. The barb includes a portion embedded into the head and a portion extending therefrom. A cable tie exhibiting high withdrawal or pull-out strength with low strap insertion force is obtained by significantly increasing the length of the unembedded portion of the barb with respect to both the embedded portion and the thickness of the strap.

Abstract: A bundling tie for looping about plural articles includes a head, a tail and elongate strap body therebetween. The head and the strap body include cooperative locking means for securing the strap in the head of the bundling tie. The tail of the bundling tie includes outwardly projecting tactile elements for enhancing the gripability of the tail to facilitate pulling the strap body through the head of the bundling tie. The head and the tail also permit the removable holding of the tail in the head of the bundling tie prior to locking engagement of the strap body with the head.

Abstract: A bundling tie for use in looping about a plurality of cables includes a locking head and elongate strap. A pair of locking barbs are movably supported in the head, each barb having an engagement portion for locking engagement with a strap end upon insertion of the strap ends into the head. Each barb includes a knife-like element for biting insertion into the strap and a blunt stop wall adjacent the knife-like element for limiting the depth of insertion of the knife-like element into the strap.

Abstract: An identification tag used in combination with a cable tie is disclosed. The cable tie having a locking head with a channel therethrough and a strap having a tail for passage through the head channel, supports the identification tag. The tag includes a marking surface for supporting identifying indicia and means for securing the tag to the cable tie. An opening in the tag is disposed in alignment with the locking head channel to permit passage of the cable tie tail through the opening as well as through the locking head channel to further secure the tag to the cable tie.

Abstract: A self-locking bundling tie for engagement about electrical cables, pipes or the like is disclosed. The tie includes a head and a strap attachable to the head. The head comprises a housing and a planar locking insert slidably received in the housing cavity. The insert is movable between two locking position in the housing. In a first position, the insert has an opening for receipt of an end of the strap therethrough. Upon movement of the insert interiorly of the housing cavity to a second locked position, the insert opening with a portion of the strap end therethrough is moved interiorly of the housing and the strap end is deformed into a reverse bend to thereby lock the strap in the bundling tie head. The strap end may be severed at the housing. The insert includes an extending portion which extends beyond the end of the housing to protect the user from the sharp severed end.

Abstract: Self-locking bundling ties for engagement about electrical cables, pipes or the like comprises a flat, metallic strap and a metallic head separably attached thereto. In the preferred form, the head is crimped to a folded-over end of the metallic strap. The head comprises a generally tubular housing with a generally planar locking insert slidably received in the housing cavity. The housing and insert include cooperative latching structure for holding the insert fixed in at least two positions relative to the housing. In a first position, the insert has an opening for receipt of the unattached end of the strap therethrough. Upon movement of the insert interiorly of the housing cavity to a second locked position, the insert opening with a portion of the strap end therethrough is moved interiorly of the housing and the strap end is deformed into a reverse bend to thereby lock the strap in the bundling tie head.

Abstract: A self-supportable cable clamp for attaching a cable transversely across inwardly directed flanges of a U-shaped support channel includes an elongate base having a rigid lower portion adapted to reside within the channel and a pair of flexible, cantilevered arms adapted to lie exteriorly of the channel. The base lower portion has a pair of longitudinally spaced engagement surfaces that together with opposed contact surfaces on the flexible arms define a pair of openings for resiliently receiving the inwardly directed channel flanges. The base is adapted to be installed by insertion thereof into the channel and rotation thereabout until the channel flanges are received in the base openings. A cable strap of the self-locking type is supported by the base for attachment to a cable and for securing such cable to the base as mounted on the channel.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a hand supported, hand operated tool for drawing up the loop formed by a self-locking strap about a plurality of articles to be bundled. A slide means translates across a stationary base member bearing at one end pawl means for grasping the strap and along its length finger grips to cause translation of the slide means. An internally confined return spring returns the slide means to an initial position and opens the pawl means. The repetition of the cycle permits the pawl means to grasp the strap at a different location and further translation of the slide means causes further tightening of the strap loop. When the operator determines that sufficient tension exists in the loop, he merely rotates the tool in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction about its longitudinal axis and causes the strap body portion to engage the sharpened sides of the slot in the tool nosepiece causing the strap body portion to be severed.

Abstract: A flexible branching strip for a wire bundle comprises a pair of preferably flat elongate interlocking members selectively spaced from one another and joined together at discrete intervals by flexible web portions. One of the members contains a series of open wire receiving slots interposed between respective tongue portions which are interlockingly engageable within a series of transverse openings in the other member. Selected wires of a wire bundle may be branched out of the bundle and disposed within respective wire receiving slots, and the strip curled about the branched bundle so that the members may be interlocked to one another with the web portions operating as spaced bundle ties about the unbranched portion of the wire bundle. The branching strip may be temporarily supported in a slotted strip support attachable to a wiring board for convenient orientation of the wire receiving slots during the branching operation.