Cable assembly for undercarpet signal transmission

Claim 1

An electrical cable assembly comprising: (a) a coaxial cable subassembly including a central electrical conductor, an electrical insulator concentric with said central conductor and an electrically conductive sheath encircling said insulator; and (b) a resilient body of electrically insulative material contiguously engaging said sheath over at least a major part of the circumference of said sheath and imposing radial retentive force upon said subassembly, said body having a first expanse in one direction radially outwardly of said subassembly along an axis intersecting said central conductor less than a second expanse of said body radially outwardly of said subassembly along said axis in a direction opposite said one direction, said body having a pair of opposed, manually deflectable sidewalls extending laterally outwardly of said axis, said first expanse defining a thin, rupturable retention film extending continuously with said sidewalls, said second expanse defining a deformable wall continuous with said sidewalls and about which said sidewalls are deflectable, said sidewalls being adapted to apply sufficient force to said thin retention film to rupture same upon manually deflecting said sidewalls about said deformable wall, whereby said coaxial cable subassembly may be released from said body through said ruptured film.