Floatable flexible electric and/or optical line
AssigneeKabelwerke Reinshagen GmbH
InventorsAlfred Kotthaus, Lothar Nohring
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Abstract
A floatable flexible line is provided with at least four air chambers which extend in the form of a one-piece extruded flexible chambered casing around the conductors. The density of the material for the chambered casing is preferably below 1 kg/dm.sup.3.
Claims4
A floatable flexible line comprising a plurality of conductors and a flexible one-piece casing having an extrudable cross-section shape and comprising an inner cylindrical wall and an outer cylindrical wall with a plurality of radial walls extending therebetween, said walls being impermeable to air and liquid, said inner cylindrical wall surrounding said conductors, said walls defining a plurality of air chambers extending longitudinally of said line for providing buoyancy thereto, said casing being constructed of an extrudable thermoplastic rubber having a density of less than 1 kg/dm.sup.3 for supplementing the buoyancy of said line.
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