Cable guide

• US 9,837,802 B1
• Filed: 09/22/2015
• Issued: 12/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cable Glydz, LLC
• Original Assignee: Cable Glydz, LLC
• Inventors: Welch, Lee D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Estrada, Angel R
• Application Number:
  US14/860,846
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 174135, 174 681, 174 683, 174 72 A, 174 40 CC, 174 88 R, 174 95, 248 681, 248 49, 248 62, 248 742, D8349, D8354, D8356
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2701/34 electric cords or electric power cables
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 57/16 formed to maintain a plurality of filaments in spaced relation
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 75/14 with two end flanges
• CPC Class Codes: H02G 1/08 through tubing or conduit, e.g. rod or draw wire for pushing or pulling inserting electrical cables into tubes using wallbores E21B17/206; for optical cables G02B6/4401

Abstract

A cable guide has a plurality of parallel cylindrical sleeves connected together and radially distributed about a center axis. Each sleeve has open ends and a lengthwise opening of an arc of about 10 to 150 degrees extending between the open ends and running parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve. The sleeves receive and hold electrically conducting cables on a spool or in a conduit.

Claims

1. A cable guide comprising a plurality of outwardly extending, curved, resilient vanes having a thickness that is substantially uniform, the vanes being connected together at their proximate ends to form a plurality of outer cylindrical sleeves, each sleeve defining a longitudinal axis and having open ends and a lengthwise lateral opening of an arc of about 10 to 150 degrees extending between the open ends and running parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve, the sleeves being adapted to receive and hold electrically conducting cables and a centrally located inner sleeve having open ends and a lengthwise lateral opening that communicates with one of the outer sleeves.

2. The cable guide of claim 1 wherein the sleeves are radially distributed about a center axis of the cable guide.

3. The cable guide of claim 2 wherein the cable guide comprises four parallel cylindrical sleeves.

4. The cable guide of claim 3 wherein each vane comprises an outer surface with an outwardly extending ridge running transverse to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.

5. A process for installing electrically conducting cables in a conduit, the process comprising placing a plurality of the cable guides at spaced apart intervals onto a plurality of cables as or before the cables are pulled into a conduit, each cable guide having the general shape of an open impeller for a centrifugal pump and comprising a plurality of outwardly extending, curved, resilient vanes, the vanes being connected together at their proximate ends to form a plurality of outer cylindrical sleeves, each sleeve defining a longitudinal axis and having open ends and a lengthwise lateral opening of an arc of about 10 to 150 degrees extending between the open ends and running parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.

6. The process of claim 5 wherein the sleeves of each cable guide are radially distributed about a center axis of the cable guide.

7. The process of claim 6 wherein each cable guide comprises four parallel cylindrical sleeves.

8. The process of claim 7 wherein each cable guide additionally comprises a centrally located inner sleeve having open ends and a lengthwise lateral opening that communicates with one of the outer sleeves.

9. The process of claim 8 wherein each vane of each cable guide comprises an outer surface with an outwardly extending ridge running transverse to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.

10. A process for placing electrically conducting cables on a spool, the process comprising placing a plurality of the cable guides at spaced apart intervals onto a plurality of cables as the cables are being placed onto a spool, each cable guide having the general shape of an open impeller for a centrifugal pump and comprising a plurality of outwardly extending, curved, resilient vanes having a thickness that is substantially uniform, the vanes being connected together at their proximate ends to form a plurality of outer cylindrical sleeves, each sleeve defining a longitudinal axis and having open ends and a lengthwise lateral opening of an arc of about 10 to 150 degrees extending between the open ends and running parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.

11. The process of claim 10 wherein the sleeves of each cable guide are radially distributed about a center axis of the cable guide.

12. The process of claim 11 wherein each cable guide comprises four parallel cylindrical sleeves.

13. The process of claim 12 wherein each cable guide additionally comprises a centrally located inner sleeve having open ends and a lengthwise lateral opening that communicates with one of the outer sleeves.

14. The process of claim 13 wherein each vane of each cable guide comprises an outer surface with an outwardly extending ridge running transverse to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.