US 11,774,006 B2
Line guiding device for hanging applications, particularly as a service loop for a drilling rig
Dominik Barten, Meckenheim (DE); and Harald Nehrign, Bonn (DE)
Assigned to IGUS GMBH, Cologne (DE)
Appl. No. 17/254,095
Filed by IGUS GMBH, Cologne (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/066109
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 18, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/243377, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 20 2018 103 418.9 (DE), filed on Jun. 18, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0262587 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. E21B 17/20 (2006.01); F16L 3/015 (2006.01); H02G 3/04 (2006.01); H02G 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 3/015 (2013.01) [E21B 17/20 (2013.01); H02G 3/0475 (2013.01); H02G 11/00 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A line routing apparatus to guide at least one line for hanging applications, comprising:
a flexible carrying strand which has tensile strength and which extends over a length of the line routing apparatus;
a plurality of guide bodies arranged in succession in a longitudinal direction of the carrying strand;
wherein adjacent guide bodies of the plurality of guide bodies are spatially deflectable relative to each other;
wherein each guide body of the plurality of guide bodies has a central part having a central axis extending coaxially relative to the carrying strand and an outer part having at least one peripheral element, wherein the peripheral element outwardly delimits a receiving region open in an axial direction for the at least one line and is held to the central part;
wherein, in each guide body, the outer part is openable;
wherein at least some guide bodies of the plurality of guide bodies, at their central part, have a respective fixing device to fix the central part to the carrying strand; and
wherein the central part has two axially projecting mutually opposite joint regions, wherein the joint regions are of conjugate configuration, wherein one joint region of one of the guide bodies is releasably introducable in the axial direction into a conjugate joint region of another guide body of the guide bodies, and wherein a joint connection of successive guide bodies is axially releasable and loose in the axial direction; or
wherein, provided as the fixing device, is a screw clamping device with a clamping screw, wherein the guide bodies are fixed to the carrying strand in axially mutually spaced force-locking relationship by their fixing device and the central part has no conjugate mutually opposite joint regions.