Positive locking fairlead for electrical cables

Claim 1

THE COMBIBNATION OF A MULTISOCKET FAIRLEAD AND A COOPERATING LOCKING MEMBER FOR SECURING A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED ELEMENTS IN TRANSVERSELY SPACED RELATIONSHIP IN AN APERTURED OBJECT THROUGH WHICH THEY EXTEND, SAID FAIRLEAD COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF INTERCONNECTED CIRCUMFERENTIALLY DISTRIBUTED PAIRS OF MEMBERS RESILIENTLY YIELDABLE APART CIRCUMFERENTIALLY TO ACCOMMODATE ELONGATED ELEMENTS PRESSED RADIALLY INWARDLY BETWEEN THE MEMBERS OF THE RESPECTIVE PAIRS, AND SECURING MEANS CARRIED AT THE OUTER ENDS OF AT LEAST CERTAIN OF SAID RESILIENTLY YIELDABLE MEMBERS, SAID SECURING MEANS INCLUDING ELEMENTS RESILIENTLY URGED RADIALLY OUTWARDLY BUT YIELDABLE INWARDLY FOR INSERTION INTO THE APERTURE SUBSTANTIALLY INDEPENDENTLY OF RESILIENT YIELDING ACTION OF SAID MEMBERS, AND SAID COOPERATING LOCKING MEMBER COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL EXTENSIONS EACH HAVING AN END SECURED TO A COMMON BASE, SAID EXTENSIONS BEING INSERTABLE BETWEEN ADJACENT PAIRS OF SAID MEMBERS IN ABUTMENT TO THE RESPECTIVE SECURING MEANS THEREBY TO PREVENT INWARD YIELDING OF SAID SECURING MEANS.