Cable Splice Patent Given
January 31, 1953
Theodore C. Tompers, a local man, has just been issued Patent No. 2,621,228 by the U. S. Patent Office for a cable splicing sleeve with sealing chambers, an improved and simplified way of protecting spliced cables.
Tompers served for many years as an official of the local telephone company under the different ownerships.
He has already contracted with the Kellogg Switch Board and Supply Co. of Chicago, a nationwide telephone manufacturer and distributor, to manufacture the new cable splice protector on a royalty basis.
Since issuance of the patent, two other concerns have contacted him about the possibilities of manufacturing the equipment.
A number of his cable splicer sleeves have been under test in actual use for about 18 months by the U.S. Army. Bell Telephone Co. is also trying some. After he developed the splicing sleeve, he devoted four months to intensive tests under every kind of conditions to prove it. He put it under boiling water and cold water; he tested it with high air pressure. It stood all tests and didn’t leak the slightest.
Another important object of the invention is to provide a device that may be readily removed for circuit testing or the like, and which will be low in cost, simple and easy to use, and be highly efficient for the purposes intended.
