Cable laying configuration

A cable laying configuration disposed in a conduit selected from the group consisting of galleries, tunnels, shafts, pipes, and channels, the configuration comprising:

• at least one cable selected from the group consisting of electric cables, data and information transport cables, control cables, fiber optic cables, and fluid transport tubes, said cable said being unwound from a drum from a region of an opening providing access to an installation shaft or access shaft toward a respective pipe or channel, or drawn or fixed in a stationary manner in the pipe or the channel, a stationary positioning of said cable and the cable laying configuration being obtained and ensured by a force of gravity and a frictional fit thus arising with the pipe or channel;
• a flexible and/or articulated carrier band having an underside and lateral edges, said carrier band to be pulled into the pipe or into the channel, disposed at a distance from a bottom of the pipe or from a channel sole and laid against an inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel, adjoining both sides with said lateral edges, and forming a substantially flat second bottom in the pipe or the channel disposed above the pipe base and/or the channel sole;
• cable supports disposed on said underside pointing to the pipe base and/or the channel sole for mounting said cable;
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• at least one continuous weighting body having a plurality of weighting elements spaced from one another and disposed on the pipe base or the channel sole, said weighting body preventing said cable from floating up due to water or waste water disposed in the pipe or the channel;
• wherein one of said weighting body and said weighting elements is formed with an outer casing fastened to said carrier band and having a cross-sectional contour that corresponds to a cross sectional contour of the pipe base or the channel sole, and that an interior space of one of said weighting body and said weighting elements formed between said underside of said carrier band and said outer casing is filled with a pourable and/or free-flowing and/or at first free-flowing and then hardening material having a high average density of more than 2.5 g/cm2, with crushed stone and/or heavy mineral sand and/or with a binding agent selected from the group consisting of concrete and mortar mass.

A cable laying configuration disposed in a conduit selected from the group consisting galleries, tunnels, shafts, pipes, and channels, the configuration comprising:

• at least one cable selected from the group consisting of electric cables, data and information transport cables, control cables, fiber optic cables, and fluid transport tubes, said cable said being unwound from a drum from a region of an opening providing access to an installation shaft or access shaft toward a respective pipe or channel, or drawn or fixed in a stationary manner in the pipe or the channel, a stationary positioning of said cable and the cable laying configuration being obtained and ensured by a force of gravity and a frictional fit thus arising with the pipe or channel;
• a flexible and/or articulated carrier band having an underside and lateral edges, said carrier band to be pulled into the pipe or into the channel, disposed at a distance from a bottom of the pipe or from a channel sole and laid against an inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel, adjoining both sides with said lateral edges, and forming a substantially flat second bottom in the pipe or the channel disposed above the pipe base and/or the channel sole;
• cable supports disposed on said underside pointing to the pipe base and/or the channel sole for mounting said cable;
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• at least one continuous weighting body having a plurality of weighting elements spaced from one another and disposed on the pipe base or the channel sole, said weighting body preventing said cable from floating up due to water or waste water disposed in the pipe or the channel;
• wherein said carrier band is formed with a plurality of articulated band links which can be swivelled vis-à-vis one another in a plane of said carrier band.

A cable laying configuration disposed in a conduit selected from the group consisting of galleries, tunnels, shafts, pipes, and channels, the configuration comprising:

• at least one cable selected from the group consisting of electric cables, data and information transport cables, control cables, fiber optic cables, and fluid transport tubes, said cable said being unwound from a drum from a region of an opening providing access to an installation shaft or access shaft toward a respective pipe or channel, or drawn or fixed in a stationary manner in the pipe or the channel, a stationary positioning of said cable and the cable laying configuration being obtained and ensured by a force of gravity and a frictional fit thus arising with the pipe or channel;
• a flexible and/or articulated carrier band having an underside and lateral edges, said carrier band to be pulled into the pipe or into the channel, disposed at a distance from a bottom of the pipe or from a channel sole and laid against an inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel, adjoining both sides with said lateral edges, and forming a substantially flat second bottom in the pipe or the channel disposed above the pipe base and/or the channel sole;
• cable supports disposed on said underside pointing the pipe base and/or the channel sole for mounting said cable;
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• at least one continuous weighting body having a plurality of weighting elements spaced from one another and disposed on the pipe base or the channel sole, said weighting body preventing said cable from floating up due to water or waste water disposed in the pipe or the channel;
• wherein said two lateral edges of said carrier band have plastic peripheral sliding profiles gripping said lateral edges for a close fit laterally on the inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel and for a reduction of frictional resistance when drawing said carrier band loaded at a bottom with one of said weighting body and said weighting elements.

A cable laying configuration disposed in a conduit selected from the group consisting of galleries, tunnels, shafts, pipes, and channels, the configuration comprising:

• at least one cable selected from the group consisting of electric cables, data and information transport cables, control cables, fiber optic cables, and fluid transport tubes, said cable said being unwound from a drum from a region of an opening providing access to an installation shaft or access shaft toward a respective pipe or channel, or drawn or fixed in a stationary manner in the pipe or the channel, a stationary positioning of said cable and the cable laying configuration being obtained and ensured by a force of gravity and a frictional fit thus arising with the pipe or channel;
• a flexible and/or articulated carrier band having an underside and lateral edges, said carrier band to be pulled into the pipe or into the channel, disposed at a distance from a bottom of the pipe or from a channel sole and laid a against an inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel, adjoining both sides with said lateral edges, and forming a substantially flat second bottom in the pipe or the channel disposed above the pipe base and/or the channel sole;
• cable supports disposed on said underside pointing to the pipe base and/or the channel sole for mounting said cable;
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• at least one continuous weighting body having a plurality of weighting elements spaced from one another and disposed on the pipe base or the channel sole, said weighting body preventing said cable from floating up due to water or waste water disposed in the pipe or the channel;
• wherein said carrier band is formed from a material that can be bent diagonally to its longitudinal extension, is elastic and can be bent up or down;
• and said material is selected from the group consisting of plastic, polyester, epoxy resin, steel, steel plate and a plastic/steel composite material.

A laid cable configuration disposed in a conduit selected from the group consisting of pipes and channels, said conduit having an inner wall surface and a conduit base, the laid cable configuration comprising:

• cables;
• a carrier band drawn into the conduit and disposed at a distance from the conduit base, said carrier band having lateral edges fitting against the inner surface wall of the conduit on both sides with said lateral edges in a flexible and/or articulated manner, said carrier band defining a substantially even second bottom in the conduit above the conduit base, said carrier band having an underside;
• cable clamps disposed on said underside of said carrier band for supporting said cables;
• a flexible and substantially continuous weighting body attached to said underside pointing toward the conduit base, said weighting body supporting said cables, said cable support and said carrier band on the conduit base and preventing said cables found in the conduit from rising in water or waste water, flowing through the conduit, said weighting body being formed by one of:
• a flexible cable connected with said carrier band so as to be relatively movable vis-à-vis the same at least in a longitudinal direction of said carrier band, said weighting body formed of a material having a thickness of more than 2 g/cm3;
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• a flexible, continuous casing filled with a free-flowing weighting material;
• said cables therefore being stationarialy positioned by a force of gravity and a frictional fit with the inner wall surface in the conduit.

A laying cable configuration to be disposed in a conduit selected from the group of pipes and channels and having an inner wall surface and a conduit base, the configuration comprising:

• at least one cable;
• a carrier band having lateral edges and to be drawn into the conduit and disposed at a distance from the conduit base and fitting against the inner wall surface of the conduit on both sides with said lateral edges defining a frictional fit, said carrier band defining a substantially flat second sole in the conduit above the conduit base, said carrier band having an underside on which said cable is disposed pointing toward the conduit base, said carrier band having a cross section with side zones each surrounded by said lateral edges and extending toward a center of said carrier band, said carrier band having a central gutter and shoulder zones disposed at a same relative high position to one another and flank said central gutter on both sides, said central gutter disposed in a median zone of said carrier band and being U-shaped for accommodating and guiding water or waste water in low-rainfall time periods;
• at least one cable holder attached to an underside of said shoulder zones and holding said cable disposed underneath at least one of said shoulder zones;
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• said the carrier band itself forming a weighting body having a proper mass for preventing said the cable from rising or changing position in water or waste water found in the conduit.