Resilient grommet and seal assembly

Claim 1

A SEALING ASSEMBLY FOR SEALING A PLURALITY OF CONDUCTORS PASSING THROUGH A BORE IN A WALL, COMPRISING A RUBBER GROMMET RECEIVED IN SAID BORE, AND A CENTRALLY DISPOSED SPHERICAL SEALING MEMBER RETAINED BY SAID GROMMET, SAID GROMMET COMPRISING A BODY OF REVOLUTION HAVING AN OUTER SURFACE THEREOF TAPERING GENERALLY INWARDLY TOWARD THE AXIS OF REVOLUTION AT ONE END THEREOF, A FIRST APERTURE FORMED IN SAID ONE END, A SECOND APERTURE FORMED IN SAID BODY AT ANOTHER END OPPOSITE TO SAID ONE END, A CONTINUOUS ANNULAR FLANGE OF GENERALLY ARCUATE CROSS SECTION FORMED ABOUT SAID OTHER END AND RADIATING THEREABOUT, AN ANNULAR GROOVE FORMED IN SAID BODY AND BEING LOCATED AXIALLY THEREOF SO AS TO HAVE THE RADIALLY OUTER-MOST PORTION OF SAID FLANGE IN RADIAL JUXTAPOSITION THEREWITH, SAID GROOVE BEING PROVIDED IN ORDER TO RECEIVE A PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID WALL DEFINING SAID BORE, SAID RADIALLY OUTERMOST PORTION OF SAID FLANGE BEING EFFECTIVE TO ABUT AGAINST SAID WALL AND CREATE A FORCE THEREAGAINST IN ORDER TO CAUSE SEALING TO OCCUR BETWEEN SAID GROOVE AND SAID WALL AND BETWEEN SAID FLANGE AND SAID WALL, A GENERALLY SPHERICAL CHAMBER FORMED IN SAID BODY AND COMMUNICATING WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND APERTURES, SAID SPHERICAL WIRE SEALING MEMBER BEING FORMED OF RELATIVELY SOFT RUBBER AND BEING PARTIALLY SLIT SO AS TO RECEIVE SAID CONDUCTORS THERETHROUGH, AND SAID SPHERICAL SEALING MEMBER HAVING AN OUTER DIAMETER LARGER THAN THE DIAMETER OF SAID CHAMBER, SAID SPHERICAL SEALING MEMBER BEING EFFECTIVE WHEN INSERTED INTO SAID CHAMBER TO CONTAIN SAID CONDUCTORS WITHIN SAID SLIT IN A MANNER CAUSING SAID CONDUCTORS TO BE IN A SIDEBY-SIDE RELATIONSHIP AND THEREBY GENERALLY ENVELOPING AND SEALING SAID CONDUCTORS, SAID GROOVE AND SAID CHAMBER BEING SO LOCATED WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AS TO CAUSE SAID CHAMBER AND SAID SPHERICAL SEALING MEMBER TO EXTEND A SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCE THROUGH SAID BORE DEFINED BY SAID PERIPHERAL EDGE OF SAID WALL.