摘要 |
A two-piece housing (1) typically for an electrical connector (11) of the type for joining a plurality of electric cables (9) end-on-end in which each housing piece (2, 3) includes a cable inlet region (5) having a cradle portion (6) for receiving a respective part of the cabling and, adjacent the cradle portion, a cable tie capture formation (7), such as a slot, for receiving the leading end (8a) only of a slotted cable tie (8) such that after adjacent cables have been connected together and the housing closed, the free end of each cable tie can be inserted into its respective capture formation, wrapped around its respective cable and then inserted into the slotted end of the cable tie, to thereafter be pulled tight to secure each respective cable to its respective cradle. |