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US 12,355,226 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for temporarily suspending conductors
AssigneeQuanta Associates, L.P.
InventorsBenjamin James Harvey, Daniel Neil O'Connell, Raymond Henry Jodoin
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Abstract
A set of components for assembling a temporary wire suspender includes in the set a yoke plate, a plurality of J-hook assemblies, a plurality of linkage members, and a plurality of removable couplers configurable to handle an expandable number of energized or de-energized conductors or sub-conductors. Positive control of the suspended and/or supported energized or de-energized conductors or sub-conductors is achieved by using releasable latches on the J-hook assemblies.
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A set of components for assembling a temporary wire suspender for temporarily suspending a plurality of conductors or sub-conductors, separated from each other by a pre-set clearance, the set comprising:
- a yoke plate having left and right yoke plate conductor cradles and a yoke plate engagement structure;
- a plurality of J-hook assemblies, each J-hook assembly having a corresponding conductor cradle and a corresponding J-hook engagement structure;
- a plurality of elongate linkage members, each linkage member having a corresponding engagement structure;
- and a plurality of removable couplers adapted to releasably, selectively and mechanically couple the yoke plate, the plurality of J-hook assemblies, and the plurality of linkage members through their corresponding engagement structures into multiple wire suspender assembled combinations to temporarily suspend the plurality of conductors or sub-conductors, wherein the assembled combination for use with sub-conductors is an assembled combination comprising:
- a four sub-conductor wire suspender comprising the yoke plate and first and second J-hook assemblies of the plurality of J-hook assemblies coupled to ends of the yoke plate through the plurality of linkage members such that the first and second J-hook assemblies depend downwardly from the yoke plate,
- and wherein first and second sub-conductors of the plurality of sub-conductors are suspended in the left and right yoke plate conductor cradles and third and fourth sub-conductors of the plurality of sub-conductors are suspended in corresponding conductor cradles of the first and second J-hook assemblies, separated from each other by the pre-set clearance.
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A set of components for assembling a temporary wire suspender for temporarily suspending a plurality of conductors or sub-conductors, the set comprising:
- a yoke plate having:
- first and second, correspondingly upper and lower, suspension apertures formed in the yoke plate along a centroidally located vertical axis of symmetry of the yoke plate, and wherein oppositely disposed left and right yoke plate conductor cradles are formed in the yoke plate and symmetrically spaced apart in the yoke plate from the vertical axis of symmetry of the yoke plate, and third and fourth suspension apertures formed in the yoke plate below the left and right yoke plate conductor cradles respectively;
- a plurality of J-hook assemblies, each J-hook assembly of the plurality of J-hook assemblies having a hook so as to form a corresponding conductor cradle at a lower end thereof and having fifth and sixth, correspondingly upper and lower, suspension apertures formed in each J-hook assembly respectively above and below the J-hook assembly conductor cradle along a centroidal vertical axis of the J-hook assembly;
- a plurality of elongate linkage members, each linkage member of the plurality of elongate linkage members having seventh and eighth suspension apertures formed therein at opposite ends thereof;
- and wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth suspension apertures in the yoke plate, the plurality of J-hook assemblies, and the plurality of elongate linkage members, respectively, are adapted to be releasably coupled, using a plurality of removable couplers, into multiple wire suspender assembled combinations to temporarily suspend the plurality of conductors or sub-conductors, wherein the assembled combination for use with sub-conductors is an assembled combination comprising:
- a four sub-conductor wire suspender combination wherein first and second sub-conductors of the plurality of sub-conductors are suspended in the left and right yoke plate conductor cradles,
- and wherein third and fourth sub-conductors of the plurality of sub-conductors are suspended in first and second J-hook assemblies of the plurality of J-hook assemblies coupled by their fifth suspension apertures to the third and fourth suspension apertures in the yoke plate by intervening linkage members of the plurality of elongate linkage members,
- the seventh suspension apertures of the intervening linkage members coupled to the third and fourth suspension apertures of the yoke plate,
- and the eighth suspension apertures of the intervening linkage members coupled to the fifth suspension apertures of the first and second J-hook assemblies.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.