To quickly and surely cause a locked state by enhancing the tensile strength of a cable tie.
The cable tie has a slender metal strap, a locking head, and a rolling body means. The head is mounted to the first end of the strap. The second end on the opposite side of the strap is inserted to the head. The head has a strap inserting end and a strap drawing end. The rolling body means causes the locked state by being engaged with the strap. The head has a holding means to capture and hold the rolling body means inside the head. The rolling body means can move between a strap insertion permitting position which is adjacent to the strap drawing end and the holding means, and a locking position which is a nearer position to the strap inserting end from the strap insertion permitting position. A ratio of the distance from the point on an edge at a ceiling to the center of the rolling body means located in the strap insertion permitting position and the diameter of the rolling body means is made to be less than 1.7.
BULANDA JOHN J
CHOPP JOSEPH A JR
O'GRADY BERNARD J
NEWMAN DAVID P
Tadashi Masui
Yasushi Kobayashi
Akio Chiba
Hiroyuki Tomita
Osamu Hoshino
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