Support assembly for releasable clamping of overhead cables or lines

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A support assembly for the releasable clamping of overhead lines or cables includes a clamping element pivotally joined to an outer housing within which a slidable shoe is introduced. The shoe is suitable to receive therein and in fixed relation a cable or line to be supported by the assembly, the clamping element having a protuberance or recess which co-operates with a recess or protuberance, respectively, integral with the shoe so, as to present axial movement of the shoe within a predetermined range of angles of the clamping element with respect to the housing, uncoupling of the shoe with respect to the clamping element being permitted when said range of angles is exceeded. The assembly …