CABLE CHAIN

• Main Authors: FUKAO HITOSHI, OZAKI TSUKASA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.08.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: BELTS, CABLES, OR ROPES, PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR DRIVINGPURPOSES; BLASTING; CHAINS; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; FITTINGS PREDOMINANTLY USED THEREFOR; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; GENERATION; HEATING; INSTALLATION OF ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES, OR OF COMBINEDOPTICAL AND ELECTRIC CABLES OR LINES; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; WEAPONS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cable chain which can improve durability and reduce noise and abrasion powder by preventing the meandering caused by a movable member and accordingly avoiding excessive tensile force on a hinge connecting chain unit members. SOLUTION: Plural chain units, each comprising side plates standing at both edges of a support plate, are connected to one another by means of the sheet hinges to form a certain length of a cable chain. One end of the cable chain is fixed to a fixing frame and the other end is fixed to a movable member reciprocating on the fixing member so as to curvedly guide a cable housed between the side plates of the chain unit members along the chain. To each side plate, a meandering control unit is fitted comprising a detachable fitting holder and a rotation member rotatably attached to a shaft fixed vertically on the side surface of the fitting holder so as to abut against a contact member opposite to the side surface of the running chain units.