In the known sleeves for receiving electricity conductors and the like it is already known to give the junction box or housing a reasonably watertight form.

The moulded connections also serve as protection against moisture or seepage of groundwater.

In the case of the new glass fibre cables as conductors for data traffic it is however desirable to accommodate the cables intact in the housing or the sleeve, whereby the separating plane of the sleeve in the bottom and cover part is quite large. This requires an additional protection against the entry of moisture.

The invention therefore proposes to provide a housing which takes a highly moisture-proof form but wherein an intact cable can nevertheless be accommodated. The device according to the invention is therefore distinguished in that the or each passage is embodied with a semicircular bottom part and a widened channel which connects to the separating plane between lower and upper shell and in which a mating part with semicircular inner wall is close-fittingly arranged.

The connector for the cable therefore consists of two parts which can be provided in separate manner with a sealing agent, which according to the invention will be of a low-viscous type. This fluid seal is applied by brush but will flow away after a time.

In order to ensure that sufficient sealing agent remains at the join between the top and bottom of the connector, a step which is preferably embodied in'V'-

shape is arranged in or between the widened channel, and therefore around the connector. A quantity of fluid sealing agent is left behind in the"V"which, after placing, of the upper part of the connector, again spreads over the join, which gives a reliable seal.

In order to ensure a further sealing, a coiled jacket of flexible material is preferably arranged round the cable such that the cable can thereby remain intact.

Between the cover and the bottom part of the housing-like device an'H'-shaped seal is clamped according to the invention which will form a double barrier against penetrating moisture.

It is finally noted that the housing is of sufficient volume to allow accommodation of more than one loop of the intact cable, which provides the advantage that the weld eventually to be made between the fibres can be performed well outside the housing, for instance on a separate table above the ground or at a distance from the housing which can also be assembled per se above ground. The remote connecting location provides the possibility of obtaining an optimal percussion weld by means of heat supply to the fibre for connecting in the bundle or glass fibres therein.

Above mentioned and other features will be further elucidated in the figure description hereinbelow of an embodiment.

In the drawing: figure 1 shows a perspective view of a housing with lower and upper shell and passages arranged in the lower shell (4 per short figure 2 is a perspective view of a passage with exploded parts of a detail of the device of figure 1, figure 3 is a perspective view of a detail of the passage of figure 2, figure 4 shows a view corresponding with figure 2 of the connector, now with pull relief, figure 5 is a perspective view of the assembled connector provided with pull relief, figure 6 shows a detail of the step in the connector separation of figures 2 and 5,

figure 7 shows a coiled jacket for the seal in the connector of the fibre bundle.

In the figures the lower shell of the housing-like device according to the invention is designated with the numeral 1 and the upper cover part with the numeral 2.

In top view the housing is substantially rectangular in shape and provided on the short side with four passages 3 for a sheathed fibre bundle 4. It is noted that the fibre bundle can be of random nature, but is particularly intended as a bundle of glass fibres, wherein each glass fibre or group of glass fibres is received in a separate channel of the sheathing. The assembly and technique hereof is assumed known and not further elucidated here.

The sheathed bundle enters the housing via a passage 3 and is fed intact through another passage 3 on either the same side of the rectangular housing or on the other side. This is determined by the designer of the conducting network.

In the housing the bundle is looped a number of times to obtain a good length so as to allow the fibres to be taken out after assembling of the bundle and to be connected to other fibres. These fibres of other bundles can also be carried inside or outside via a passage 3.

The connecting technique is not further discussed in this application.

It will be apparent that the housing part must be sealing at the separating plane along a relatively great length around the periphery. Connectors 3 must also seal against moisture and dirt, this in permanent manner, wherein the seal has the drawback that it also must be separated along the length to allow placing of the cable intact in the connector.

For this purpose the connector is constructed according to the invention from two parts, viz. a lower part 5 with semicircular inner wall 6 (see figures 2 and 6), which semi-annular lower part 5 is extended upward with the part 7, of which the inner walls 8 respectively 9 widen towards the top, i. e. in the direction of the separating plane between the cover and bottom parts of the housing. Into the upper part is placed a mating part

10 which has side walls which coincide with inner walls 8,9 of parts 7. The lower surface of mating part 10 is likewise semicircular at 11 such that, after assembly, the surfaces 6 and 11 form a circular channel for connector 3.

Figure 6 shows that walls. 7 and 6 are mutually connected via a step 12. The step 12 is preferably a In'-sape into which a pointed lower end of the mating part fits.

Such a construction has the purpose during sealing with a fluid sealing agent that this latter collects during assembly in the'V'-shaped step 12 so that after placing of mating part 12 the pointed end thereof pushes the liquid away into the separation between walls of part 7 and part 10.

Figure 2 shows that to clamp the mating part 10 and lower part 5 onto each other a clamping strip 13 can be used which consists of a'U'-shaped lower part 14 which is extended on the one side at 15 with a flat rigid part 16 provided with a sealing layer 17 sufficient to clamp the mating part 10 firmly onto lower part 5 after insertion of a bolt 18 through an opening 20 of part 16 into the threaded hole 19 arranged on the other end of the'U'-shaped part 14.

In order to seal the closure around the sheathing of the bundle 4 and the inner walls 6,11 of connector 3, a strip 21 is placed round fibre bundle 4, which can take place round an intact sheathing.

The assembly of the bundle takes place after the strip 21 has been arranged and placed, see arrow P1, into the lower part 5 of connector 3. After placing of mating part 10, arrow P2, the sheathed bundle can therefore be clamped firmly and moisture-tight by sliding the clamping strip as according to arrow P3 round the part 5 as far as the recessed portion thereof and then closing the strip.

The upper cover part 2 is thereafter clamped by means of screws onto the bottom part 1, this after placing of an'H'-shaped closing profile 30 between the separating planes of the two parts, see figure 1.

Finally, a pull relief can be, arranged on the sheathing of fibre bundle 4, which is shown in figures 4 and 5 at 25. Arranged around bundle 4 are two pairs of shell-like sleeve parts 26,26' provided with a widened head 27. These sleeve parts are then clamped fixedly on the semicircular lower part 5 of bottom housing part 1 by a clamping piece 28.

If desired, an additional clamp 31 is further placed around the sheathing on the inner side of the housing so as to here also ensure a pull relief.

The invention is not limited to the above described embodiment.