Flexible remote control device

Claim 1

A FLEXIBLE REMOTE CONTROL DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING TRACTIOIN OR COMPRESSION FORCES, COMPRISING A FLEXIBLE TUBULAR SHEATH, A FLAT FLEXIBLE FORCE TRANSMITTING MEMBER ADAPTED TO MOVE TO AND FRO IN SAID SHEATH, A PAIR OF FLEXIBLE FLAT ELONGATED GUIDE MEMBERS ARRANGED IN SAID SHEATH ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID TRANSMITTING MEMBER, SPACED ROLLING ELEMENTS BETWEEN SAID GUIDE MEMBERS AND SAID TRANSMITTING MEMBER, A PAIR OF COAXIAL TUBES LOCATED AT AT LEAST ONE END OF SAID DEVICE AND ROTATABLE RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, MEANS ROTATABLY SUPPORTING SAID PAIR OF COAXIAL TUBES IN SAID DEVICE AND LIMITING AXIAL MOVEMENT THEREIN IN AT LEAST ONE DIRECTION, EACH OF SAID COAXIAL TUBES IN SAID PAIR THEREOF BEING PROVIDED WITH A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY DISPOSED CLOSED SLOTS EXTENDING GENERALLY IN INCLINED RELATION LENGTHWISE OF THE TUBE, EACH SLOT ON ONE OF SAID COAXIAL TUBES BEING ASSOCIATED WITH A SLOT ON THE OTHER COAXIAL TUBE AND SAID ASSOCIATED WITH A SLOT ON THE OTHER BEING INCLINED IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS SO THAT SUCH ASSOCIATED SLOTS IN EACH PAIR THEREOF CROSS OF FORM AT THEIR JUNCTURE A SPACE THROUGH BOTH OF SAIDS TUBES, THE INCLINATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATED SLOTS IN EACH PAIR THEREOF BEING SUCH THAT THE SPACE FORMED BY ONE PAIR OF ASSOCIATED SLOTS IS MOVABLE LENGHTWISE OF THE DEVICE IN DIRECTIONS OPPOSITE TO THE MOVEMENTS OF THE SPACE FORMED BY THE OTHER PAIR OF ASSOCIATED SLOTS AS SAID TUBES ARE ROTATED RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER, AND A FOLLOWER IN EACH OF SAID SPACES AND CONNECTED TO ONE OF SAID GUIDE MEMBERS.