Suspension apparatus for bundle conductors

Claim 1

IN TRANSMISSION LINE APPARATUS, IN COMBINATION, AN INSULATOR, A RIGID SUSPENSION PLATE CARRIED BY THE SAID INSULATOR WITH MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING THE SAID INSULATOR TO THE SUSPENSION PLATE AT THE TOP CENTRAL PART THEREOF FOR RELATIVE MOVEMENT AT LEAST IN THE PLANE OF THE SUSPENSION PLATE, TWO ARMS AT THE TOP OF THE SUSPENSION PLATE EXTENDING SYMMETRICALLY OUTWARD ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE PLATE, AND A PART OF THE SAID SUSPENSION PLATE EXTENDING DOWNWARD AND AWAY FROM THE SAID INSULATOR IN ALIGNMENT WITH SAID CONNECTING MEANS, TWO CONDUCTOR CABLES AND SUSPENSION MEANS THEREFOR CONNECTED TO THE SAID TWO ARMS AT POINTS SYMMETRICALLY DISPOSED ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF AND SPACED TOWARD THE INSULATOR FROM THE PIVOT POINT OF THE INSULATOR CONNECTING MEANS, AND STABILIZING MEANS AT THE LOWER EXTREMITY OF THE SAID SUSPENSION PLATE, CHARACTERIZED AT LEAST BY THE WEIGHT THEREOF, FOR PRODUCING FORCES TENDING TO RESTORE THE SAID APPARATUS TO A BALANCED POSITION GREATER THAN FORCES DUE TO THE LINE CONDUCTORS TENDING TO DISTRUB THE SAID APPARATUS FROM THE BALANCED POSITION.