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OwnerAndreas Hermey, Philip Howoldinventors
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The invention relates to a pay out apparatus (1) for a spatially deflectable line or line guide device (10) for guiding one or more supply lines (3), comprising a delivery unit (30) for paying out and retracting a longitudinal portion of the line arrangement (2) from a storage region (4). The invention also relates to the delivery unit (30) per se for driving the line guide device (10). According to the invention, the delivery unit (30) comprises a drive wheel (32) which has, on the circumference, a number of engagement portions (33) each having at least one force transmission element (34), and the flexible line arrangement (2) has a plurality of projections (12) and/or recesses on the outside that are distributed along at least one longitudinal portion of the line arrangement (2). The force transmission elements (34) of the drive wheel act force-transmittingly together with a projection (12) and/or recess of the line arrangement (2) to deliver or drive the line guide device (10) during paying out and/or during retraction.
A dispensing device (1) with a flexible line arrangement (2) comprising a line guide apparatus (10) for guiding one or more supply lines (3), wherein the line guide apparatus has links (11) which are connected together in articulated manner and can be pivoted relative one another, the dispensing device (1) comprising a conveying unit (30) for dispensing at least one longitudinal portion of the line arrangement (2) from a storage space (4), the conveying unit (30) incudes a drive wheel (32) which has on its circumference a number of engagement portions (33) with in each case at least one force transmission element (34);
A device with a three-dimensionally deflectable line guide apparatus (10) which has links (11), which are connected together in articulated manner and can in each case be pivoted relative to one another in at least two directions, for guiding one or more supply lines (3), and with a conveying unit (30) for driving the line guide apparatus (10),
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