Cable sealing cover including stress relief

The invention relates to electrical wiring, and optical fiber transmission structures, represented by wiring harnesses, and fiber-optic networks and the like, which include transition sections produced by diverting signal carriers from a multi-wire or multi-fiber cable into connecting branches required by the signal carrier network design. More particularly the present invention provides a protective, sealing, cable transition cover including stress-relief to accommodate repeated flexing and related distortion of branched-signal carrier transition sections during manufacture and installation of signal and electrical power carrying structures. A molded article for protecting a transition section of a multi-wire cable. The article includes a transition cover having an elastomeric skin and further including a cable receiving tube, having an open channel therein. The cable receiving tube has intersection with each of a plurality of wire cover sleeves to provide passage openings from the open channel of the cable receiving tube to each of the plurality of wire cover sleeves for insertion of at least one wire of the multi-wire cable therein. A stress relief pocket formed in the elastomeric skin, adjacent to at least a portion of each intersection, extends towards the open channel and includes at least one crease to accommodate expansion of the stress relief pocket from a partially folded condition to reduce the concentration of stress at an intersection during movement of the transition cover from a relaxed condition to a stretched condition.