Flexible push-pull cable
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    发明授权
    Flexible push-pull cable 失效
    柔性推拉电缆

    公开(公告)号:US3183301A

    公开(公告)日:1965-05-11

    申请号:US10083361

    申请日:1961-04-05

    申请人: TELEFIEX INC

    摘要: 950,546. Electric cables. TELEFLEX Inc. April 5, 1962 [April 5, 1961], No. 13128/62. Heading H1A. [Also in Division F2] A push-pull control cable 26, Fig. 1, adapted also to transmit a flow of fluid or electricity, is movable in a conduit 28 by means of a toothed gear 70, Fig. 3 (not shown), engaging the spaced coils of a helical wire 58, Fig. 4, wrapped around the cable, the cable itself comprising helically wound wires 56, 38, &c. defining a central passageway receiving a solid, tubular or stranded core 36, either the core or the helical wires comprising the means for transmitting a flow of fluid or electricity. As shown, the cable has a solid core 36 of steel or titanium forming a tension element, a close-coiled wire or wires 56 forming a compression element, four long-lay steel or titanium wires 38, 40, 46, 48 assisting the tension element, and two copper or aluminium electrical conductors 42, 44 insulated by ceramics, plastics or rubber and covered by fibreglass braid. In modifications (a) the compression element 56 is omitted; (b) the element 56 is omitted and the wires 36 to 48 are wrapped with threads of plastics, glass fibre or other material to minimize abrasion between wires; (c) the solid core 36 is replaced by a freely inserted core of stranded electrical leads and the helical conductors 42, 44 are replaced by helical tensile wires, the tension then being taken wholly by the helical wires 38-48; (d) embodiment (c) is modified for a cable acting only in compression by omitting the tension layer 38- 48 ; (e) the solid core 36 of Fig. 4 is replaced by a tube of rubber, plastics or metal for hydraulic or pneumatic flow or suction; (f) the embodiment (e) is modified by the insertion of an electrical conductor through the tube. It is also stated that the compression layer 56, in embodiment (c) and elsewhere, may be formed from insulated electrical conductors. In the application shown in Fig. 1 the cable 26 positions a device 24 for sensing temperature or other conditions in a furnace 22 and is engaged by the teeth of a gear 70, Fig. 3 (not shown), driven by a motor and reduction gear unit 72. The cable is coiled in a housing 60 and fed to the gear 70 through a swivelling guide tube 64.