GB725156A - Means for controlling the movement of a looped hose, electric cable, or like flexible element - Google Patents

Abstract

725,156. Supporting pipes. BRITISH OXYGEN CO., Ltd. Jan. 20, 1954 [Jan. 27, 1953], No. 2334/53. Class 99 (2). [Also in Group XXXVI] A flexible hose 26 disposed in a loop and having one end connected to a moving body 10 and the other to a stationary member 29 is connected by two guide tracks 15, 16 which are generally parallel to the direction of motion of the body 10, each of which is provided with at least one retaining side wall 20, 22 and which engage respectively the parts of the hose at opposite sides of the loop. The track 15 may comprise a series of transverse rollers 17 and the track 16 a series of transverse bars 21, the tracks preferably being at different levels. A second hose 27 connected to a moving body 11 traversing a path which overlaps that of body 10 may be guided by the same pair of tracks, the loop of the hose 27 extending in the opposite direction to that of hose 26. The supply point 29 is preferably positioned opposite the middle of guide rails 12 on which the bodies 10, 11 move. Where connection is required to three or four moving bodies having overlapping paths, three guide tracks are provided, the first being engaged by the parts of the three or four hoses between the loops and supply point 29, the second by the other parts of two of the hoses and the third by the other parts of the remaining hose or hoses.