Waterproof housing for the spliced ends of electrical cables

Claim 1

A housing for protecting the spliced ends of two or more electric cables, said housing being formed of two identical half-sections engaging one another in a snap-fit relationship, with said half-sections being configured to form entries therebetween for the cables, each of said half-sections being pre-filled with a silicone-based gel material, each of said half-sections having the shape of an open-topped rectangular container having side walls, end walls, and a bottom, one of the end walls having a plurality of troughs extending therethrough to provide said entries for the cables, one of said side walls having a lip formed at the outer edge thereof and the other of said side walls having a shoulder formed thereon to enable the lip of one of the half-sections to engage the shoulder of the other of the half-sections to provide the snap-fit relationship between the half-sections, in which the other of said side walls includes an inwardly displaced intermediate section extending upwardly beyond the edge thereof to form a blade which extends into the gel in the other of the half-sections to displace the gel towards the spliced ends of the electric cables when supported in the housing.