Cable splicing boots

Claim 1

AN INEXPENSIVE ONE-PIECE GENERALLY TUBULAR BOOT ADAPTED TO USE IN PROTECTING A CABLE SPLICE, SAID BOOT BEING FORMED ENTIRELY OF IMPERVIOUS NONCONDUCTIVE SUPPLE THIN PLASTIC MATERIAL AND COMPRISING AN ELONGATED TUBULAR BODY OF SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORM CROSS-SECTION THROUGHOUT THE MAJOR PORTION OF ITS LENGTH, THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID BOOT CONVERGING TO FORM RELATIVELY SMALL DIAMETER TAPERING SLEEVES ADAPTED TO SNUGLY EMBRACE CABLE SHEATING IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF A CABLE SPLICE, SAID TAPERING SLEEVES HAVING FUSED SEAMS ALONG THEIR DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSED SIDES WHICH SEAMS CONVERGE TOWARD THE OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID BOOT TO DIAMETERS SNUGLY TO EMBRACE CABLE SHEATHING TO EITHER END OF A SPLICE, AND FLIXBLE PLASTIC SEAM-FORMING MEANS EXTENDING THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH OF SAID BOOT AND INCLUDING COMPLEMENTALLY SHAPED INTERLOCKING TONGE AND GROOVE MEANS COOPERATING TO FORM A FLUID-TIGHT SEAM WHEN CLOSED TOGETHER, SAID SEAM FORMING MEANS BEING LOCATED ALONG ONE SIDE OF SAID BOOT AND BETWEEN THE CONVERGING FUSED SEAMS OF SAID TAPERING SLEEVES.