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AssigneeBICC Public Limited Company
InventorsPhillip Dey, Peter Fearns, Karl W. Plessner, Kenneth H. Pickup, Bernard Gaylard, Arthur B. Murphy
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A flexible stranded body, such as an electric conductor of an overhead electric transmission or distribution system, comprises at least one stranded layer of elongate elements of metal or metal alloy, at least one elongate compartment within and extending throughout the length of the stranded body and, loosely housed in the elongate compartment, at least one separate optical fibre and/or at least one optical bundle. Preferably, the elongate compartment extends within a circumferentially rigid central core which is surrounded by the stranded layer or layers but it may be a bore in an elongate element of a stranded layer or an elongate space bounded by two adjacent elongate elements.
An overhead flexible electric transmission conductor adapted to be freely supported from spaced supports in long lengths, comprising at least one layer of helically wound bare elongate elements of metal or metal alloy, at least one elongate compartment, constituted by a space formed within and extending throughout the length of the conductor and, loosely housed in the elongate compartment or at least one of the elongate compartments, at least one separate flexible optical guide.
An overhead flexible electric transmission conductor adapted to be freely supported from spaced supports in long lengths, comprising a substantially circumferentially rigid central core having an elongate compartment constituted by a space formed within and extending throughout the length of the core, at least one separate flexible optical guide loosely housed in the elongate compartment and, surrounding the central core, at least one layer of helically wound bare elongate elements of metal or metal alloy.
An overhead flexible electric transmission conductor adapted to be freely supported from spaced supports in long lengths, comprising at least one layer of helically wound bare elongate elements of metal or metal alloy, at least one elongate compartment formed within and extending throughout the length of the layer and constituted by an elongate space bounded by at least two adjacent bare elongate elements of the layer or layers and, loosely housed in the elongate compartment or at least one of the elongate compartments, at least one separate flexible optical guide.
An overhead flexible electric transmission conductor adapted to be freely supported from spaced supports in long lengths, comprising at least one layer of helically wound bare elongate elements of metal or metal alloy, at least one elongate compartment extending throughout the length of the layer or of at least one of the layers and constituted by a bore formed in an elongate element of the layer and, loosely housed in the elongate compartment or at least one of the elongate compartments, at least one separate flexible optical guide.
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