the area of their respective longitudinal edges 38 40 in this way it is insured that on application of the device 2 to the cable 32 the material of the sealing lips 18 20 is compressed uniformly between the carrier element 6 and the outer surface 30 of the cable 32 and not respectively pushed outwards in the axial direction due to the aforementioned material characteristics of the elastic material the device 2 according to the invention is robust long lived and resistant to aging as well as mechanically strong in addition it can be used over a wide range of temperatures the device 2 represented in fig1 and 2 can also be used as a device for sealing for example of an electrically conducting contact or the like on an outer surface of a in particular cylindrical body against penetration of humidity or dust in the area of contact in this case the contact means in particular the contact element 36 and in given cases also the carrier element 6 of metal are not required fig3 shows the device 2 according to fig1 and fig2 in the mounted position it can be seen that the body 4 in this mounted position abuts the cable 32 and engages around it in the form of a sleeve fig4 shows a second exemplary embodiment of a device according to the invention for electrically conducting contacting which is distinguished from the exemplary embodiment according to fig1 by the fact that instead of the contact element 36 contact projections are provided of which only one contact projection provided with the reference number 39 can be seen in fig4 the contact projection 39 is formed by a profiling in the form of an arch which is convex in cross.