System for mounting electrical and optical conductors to floor beams of an aircraft
AssigneeInflight Investments Inc.
InventorGeorge R. SMALLHORN
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Abstract
A system for mounting conductors, such as electrical wires, optical fibre cables, conduits and the like, to the floor beams of an aircraft cabin floor, having: an elongate raceway a longitudinal routing rails spanning between adjacent pairs of floor beams, each routing rail having an interior channel for housing conductors; conductor cradle blocks disposed in the interior channel, each cradle block including a mounting cushion adapted to engage a bottom portion of said conductors; and rail support brackets, each rail support bracket removably clamped on at least one of: the top flange; the bottom flange; and the web of a beam and removably mounted to the rail ends
Claims17
A system for mounting conductors, such as electrical wires, optical fibre cables, conduits and the like, to the floor beams of an aircraft cabin floor, each floor beam having a top flange, a bottom flange and a web extending between the flanges, the floor beams being disposed in a substantially parallel spaced apart array, the floor including a plurality of removable floor panels mounted on said floor beams, the system comprising:
- an elongate raceway comprised of a plurality of longitudinal routing rails spanning between adjacent pairs of said floor beams, each routing rail having an interior channel for housing said conductors and having two open ends;
- a plurality of conductor cradle blocks disposed in said interior channel, each cradle block including a mounting cushion adapted to engage a bottom portion of said conductors;
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- a plurality of rail support brackets, each rail support bracket removably clamped on at least one of:
- the top flange;
- the bottom flange;
- and the web of one of said beams and removably mounted to one of said rail ends.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.