Suspension system for surface wave transmission line

• US 3,201,724 A
• Filed: 01/07/1964
• Issued: 08/17/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Theodore Hafner
• Original Assignee: Theodore Hafner
• Inventors: Hafner, Theodore
• Application Number:
  US04/336,282
• Time in Patent Office: 588 Days
• US Class Current: 333/240
• CPC Class Codes: H01P 3/10 Wire waveguides, i.e. with a single solid longitudinal conductor
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 7/00 Overhead installations of electric lines or cables installations of bus-bars H02G5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 7/05 Suspension arrangements or devices for electric cables or lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5466 using three phases conductors
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/54 Systems for transmission via power distribution lines

Claims

1. IN A COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR HIGH VOLTAGE POWER LINES, A NUMBER OF HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION TOWERS, A SURFACE WAVE CONDUCTOR INCLUDING A STEEL CORE, A CONDUCTING LAYER SURROUNDING SAID STEEL CORE AND A DIELECTRIC COATING SURROUNDING SAID CONDUCTING LAYER, AND DEFINING A SURFACE WAVE OF PREDETERMINED FIELD DIAMETER;

SAID SUFFACE WAVE CONDUCTOR EXTENDING CONTINOUSLY THROUGH AT LEAST ONE OF SAID TOWERS AT AN OPENING THEREOF CORRESPONDING TO A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF SAID FIELD DIAMETER, SAID FURFACE WAVE CONDUCTOR OVER AT LEAST A PORTION OF ITS PASSAGE THROUGH SAID TOWER HAVING REMOVED SAID DIELECTRIC COATING FROM SAID CONDUCTING LAYER, COAXIAL LINE FORMED AROUND SAID UNCOATED PORTION, HAVING AN OUTER CONDUCTOR WHICH IS SLOTTED TO RECEIVE SAID SURFACE WAVE CONDUCTOR;

SAOD SURFACE WAVE CONDUCTOR FORMING THE INNER CONDUCTORT OF SAID COAXIAL LINE AT SAID UNCOATED PORTION, AND MEANS FOR ATTACHING SAID SURFACE WAVE CONDUCTOR TO SAID TOWER BY AID UNCOATED PORITON OF SURFACE WAVE CONDUCTOR.