Cable coupler

Claim 1

A COUPLER FOR JOINING FERRULED CABLE ENDS WHICH COMPRISES AN ELONGATED BODY HAVING A CENTRAL LONGITUDINAL CHAMBER THEREIN AND OPPOSITE LONGITUDINAL END OPENINGS COMMUNICATING THEREWITH, THE CENTRAL CHAMBER BEING DIMENSIONED TO RECEIVE TWO FERRULED CABLE ENDS ARRANGED END TO END, THE END OPENINGS BEING DIMENSIONED TO RECEIVE THE CABLES BUT NOT THE FERRULED ENDS THEREOF, THE ENDS OF THE CHAMBER FORMING ABUTMENTS FOR THE CABLE FERRULES, THE BODY HAVING A PAIR OF DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED TRANSVERSE SLOTS THEREIN FORMING A CENTRAL TRANSVERSE OPENING THROUGH THE BODY COMMUNICATING WITH THE CHAMBER AND A PAIR OF TRANSVERSE END OPENINGS ONE COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OF THE LONGITUDINAL END OPENINGS, THE CENTRAL TRANSVERSE OPENING BEING DIMENSIONED TO PASS THE CABLE FERRULES THERETHROUGH AND TO TERMINATE AT ITS LONGITUDINAL ENDS INWARD OF THE ABUTMENT ENDS OF THE CHAMBER, THE TRANSVERSE END OPENINGS BEING DIMENSIONED TO PASS THE CABLES THERETHROUGH BUT NOT THE FERRULED ENDS THEREOF AND TO TERMINATE INWARD OF THE ABUTMENT ENDS OF THE CHAMBER, WHEREBY THE OUTER END PORTIONS OF THE CHAMBER FORM SOCKETS WHICH CONFINE THE CORRESPONDING END PORTIONS OF THE CABLE FERRULES SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGHOUT THEIR CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIMENSIONS.