Cable sheath assembly

Claim 1

A cable sheath assembly which comprises: a strip of springable sheet material shaped to produce a channel member having opposed sidewalls terminating at their forwardmost extremities in a pair of opposed parallel and substantially coplanar inturned flanges spaced apart to define a cable-receiving slot therebetween, said sidewalls of said channel member extending forwardly in divergent relation and cooperating with their respective inturned flanges to define an internal included angle of less than 90°, and a pair of generally V-shaped flanges arranged in spaced parallel relation to one another cooperating with a substantially planar web bridging the space separating said flanges to define a bracket for mounting said channel member on a substantially flat supporting surface, said V-shaped flanges each having an inboard portion projecting rearwardly from the plane of the web and a forwardly-extending outboard wing depending from said inboard portion that terminates in a free edge spaced to the rear of said web a distance selected to leave a space between said free edge and any supporting surface at least as thick as the thickness of the inturned flanges of the channel member, said wing portions extending forwardly in divergent relation at substantially the same angle as the sidewalls of the channel member, the spacing between said wings and the internal included angles between the sidewalls of the channel member and their inturned flanges being selected such that the former when seated in the latter define limit stops effective to maintain a fixed spaced relation between the channel member sidewalls, and said sidewalls of said channel member when sprung apart and released in a position to place the inturned flanges thereof in the gap left between the free edges of the wings on the V-shaped flanges of the bracket and the supporting surface in front thereof cooperating with said bracket and supporting surface to define an enclosed raceway.