Bridges – Suspension – Cables and cable clamps
Patent
1985-02-14
1986-09-23
Novosad, Stephen J.
Bridges
Suspension
Cables and cable clamps
174 92, 24459, 52230, 248 743, E01D 1910
Patent
active
046126805
ABSTRACT:
An armor for a bridge cable including a specified number of trough-shaped metal covers for covering a bridge cable formed of PC steel wire bundles, male and female fitting parts provided on both side edges of the covers for being fitted to each other, and elastic spacers fitted into and connected to the inside of the cover and having concave parts formed thereon for maintaining the PC steel wire bundles in a mass or assembled state. A joint of the cable cover includes a seal member constituted by a specified number of elastic trough-shaped divided bodies for covering the outer periphery of the cable cover by abutting against each other on the side edges thereof, protrusions projecting from the middle of the inside of each divided body for insertion between the facing end edges of the cable covers, and engaging parts projecting from both ends of the outer surface of the divided body. A fixing tube constituted by trough-shaped divided covers, each of which externally contacts with a divided body on the end edges facing the inside of the engaging parts and by fixing parts for fixing the side edges against which the divided cover abuts in a water tight manner.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2095721 (1937-10-01), Sunderland
patent: 4557007 (1985-12-01), Diaguji et al.
Harumoto Iron Works Co., Ltd.
Letchford John F.
Novosad Stephen J.
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