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IN A SPACER DEVICE FOR MAINTAINING SEPARATION BETWEEN PARALLEL SUSPENDED ELONGATE MEMBERS SUBJECT TO RELATIVE MOVEMENT IN A BUNDLE THEREOF, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING COOPERATIVELY PAIRED SEPARABLE CLAMPING ELEMENTS FOR SECUREMENT THEREOF ON EACH ELONGATE MEMBER IN THE BUNDLE, A RIGID STRUT IN OPPOSITE TERMINAL END ARTICULATED CONNECTION TO ONE CLAMPING ELEMENT IN EACH SEPARATE COOPERATIVE PAIR THEREOF ADJACENT EACH OPPOSITE TERMINAL END OF THE STRUT, EACH SAID ARTICULATED CONNECTION INCLUDING A RIGID PIN CONNECTOR ELEMENT RIGIDLY SUPPORTED BY AND EXTENDING FROM ONE OF THE NAMED ADJACENT ELEMENTS COMPRISING THE STRUT AND CLAMPING ELEMENT ADJACENT EACH OPPOSITE END OF THE STRUT, SAID PIN CONNECTOR ELEMENT EXTENDING THROUGH AN APERTURED ABUTMENT RIGIDLY CARRIED BY THE OTHER NAMED ADJACENT ELEMENT, SEPARATE RESILIENT MEANS IN COAXIAL SURROUNDING DISPOSITION ON SAID PIN CONNECTOR ELEMENT, ONE EACH RESILIENT MEANS BEING DISPOSED ON OPPOSITE FACES OF SAID APERTURED ABUTMENT AND EXTENDING AWAY THEREFROM RESPECTIVELY TOWARDS THE STRUT AND CLAMPING ELEMENT, SAID COAXIAL RESILIENT MEANS BEING INITIALLY CONFINED AND PRE-LOADED IN RESILIENTLY BIASING RELATIONSHIP IN INTERCONNECTION OF EACH OPPOSITE END OF THE STRUT AND THE CLAMPING ELEMENT ADJACENT THERETO, AND EACH SAID RESILIENTLY BIASING INTERCONNECTION PERMITTING RESILIENTLY RESTRAINED RELATIVE UNIVERSAK MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID STRUT AND CLAMPING ELEMENT ADJACENT THE OPPOSITE TERMINAL ENDS THEREOF.