Sliding cable safety device for generating an alarm signal

A sliding cable safety device to secure a system, a plant, a machine, a machinery, an equipment, a conduit, a pipe, or a similar installation and structure, subject over time and in operation to the danger and risk of breaking, exploding, failing, having an accident, or suffering a similar exceptional event, including:

• a sliding cable which has a first attachment eyelet and a second attachment eyelet formed respectively by two end portions of the sliding cable;
• a first ferrule or sleeve and a second ferrule or sleeve which slidably house said sliding cable and close the respective two end portions so as to form, at the two ends of the safety device, said first and second attachment eyelets;
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• two terminals provided at the two opposite ends of the sliding cable included in the safety device,
• whereby said first attachment eyelet and second attachment eyelet allow to attach and connect the safety device, at two opposite ends of the safety device, to two parts, adjacent, of said system, plant, machine, machinery, equipment, conduit, pipe, or similar installation and structure, to be secured, by sliding the sliding cable in said first and second sleeve so as to push the two terminals, provided at the two opposite ends of the sliding cable, to cooperate in contact with the first and with the second sleeve so as to tighten the two eyelets around said two parts of said system, plant, machine, machinery, equipment, conduit, pipe, or similar installation and structure, to be made safe using the same safety device, wherein the safety device further comprises:
• signalling means designed to generate an alarm signal;
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• activation means which connect at least one area of the sliding cable, included in the safety device, to said signalling means, in order to activate said signalling means and therefore generate said alarm signal;
• wherein said activation means consist of an activation cable or cord which connects said sliding cable to said signalling means;
• whereby, in the event of a break, explosion, failure, accident or similar exceptional event in said system, plant, machine, machinery, equipment, conduit, pipe, or similar installation and structure, secured by said safety device, said sliding cable intervenes to hold said two parts of said system, plant, machinery, equipment, conduit, pipe, or similar installation and structure, so as to avoid further damage caused by said exceptional event, and furthermore said activation means, due to the movement of said sliding cable caused by said exceptional event, activate and control said signalling means so as to generate said alarm signal.