Carrier system for supplying power lines to reciprocating machines

Claim 1

A CARRIER SYSTEM FOR SUPPLYING POWER LINES TO A RECIPROCATING MACHINE, SAID CARRIER SYSTEM COMPRISING: (A) A GENERALLY HORIZONTAL ELONGATE CARRIER BELT ADAPTED TO SURROUNDABLY ACCOMMODATE AND CARRY AT LEAST ONE ELONGATE POWER LINE SLIDABLY CONTAINED THEREIN, SAID CARRIER BELT COMPRISING A PAIR OF SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL ELONGATE OPPOSED SHIELDS SEPARATED BY SPACER MEANS, SAID CARRIER BELT BEING UNDULATELY FOLDABLE UPON ITSELF IN THE DIRECTION OF EITHER SHIELD FOR AT LEAST THREE VERTICALLY ALIGNED SEGMENTS SUCH THAT EACH UPPER SEGMENT OF THE UNDULATE STRUCTURE READILY ASSUMES AN ELONGATE AND SLIDABLE INTRA-SHIELD CONTACT WITH THE SEGMENT IMMEDIATELY THEREBENEATH, THE FOLDED REGION AT THE JUNCTURE BETWEEN EVERY CONSECUTIVELY ADJACENT SEGMENT BEING OF AN ARCUATE CONFIGURATION, AT LEAST ONE OF SAID TWO ELONGATE OPPOSED SHIELDS BEING A GENERALLY FLEXIBLE STRUCTURALLY CONTINUOUS STRAP THAT IS SUFFICIENTLY FLEXIBLE TO BE UNDULATELY FOLDABLE UPON ITSELF IN EITHER OF TWO PPOSITE DIRECTIONS FOR AT LEAST THREE VERTICALLY ALIGNED SEGMENTS SUCH THAT EACH UPPER UNDULATE SEGMENT READILY ASSUMES AN ELONGATE CONTACT WITH THE SEGMENT IMMEDIATELY THEREBENEATH, THE FOLDED REGION AT THE JUNCTURE BETWEEN EVERY CONSECUTIVELY ADJACENT SEGMENT BEING OF AN ARCUATE CONFIGURATION, THE EXPOSED OUTWARD SURFACE OF EACH ELONGATE SHIELD BEING SLIDABLE UPON ITSELF WHEN THE CARRIER BELT IS DISPOSED IN SAID UNDULATE FORM, SAID SPACER MEANS BEING LOCATED BETWEEN AND DIRECTLY ATTACHED TO THE INNER SURFACES OF SAID GENERALLY PARALLEL OPPOSED SHIELDS, THE TRANSVERSE DIRECTION OF SAID SPACER MEANS BEING SUSBTANTIALLY CO-EXTENSIVE WITH THE INNER WIDTH OF THE TWO OPPOSED SHIELDS, SAID SPACER MEANS BEING PROVIDED WITH AT LEAST ONE PERFORATION THERETHROUGH IN THE ELONGATE DIRECTION OF SAID SHIELDS TO PROVIDE AT LEAST ONE ELONGATE INTERNAL PASSAGEWAY THAT IS SUBSTANTIALY PARALLEL TO THE ELONGATGE CENTRAL AXES OF SAID SHIELDS, SAID PASSAGEWAY BEING SUBSTANTIALLY COEXTENSIVE WITH THE LENGTH OF SAID CARRIER BELT, AND (B) AN ELONGATE GUIDANCE TROUGH HAVING UPRIGHT PARALLEL INTERIOR SIDES, AN OPEN TOP, A LOWER BOUNDARY PORTION, AND A LINEARLY GENERATED ELONGATE CENTRAL AXIS, A TERMINAL PORTION OF SAID CARRIER BELT HAVING A TRANSVERSE AND PIVOTAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LOWER BOUNDARY PORTION OF SAID GUIDANCE TROUGH SO THAT A TERMINAL SEGMENT OF SAID CARRIER BELT MAY LIE HORIZONTALLY ALONG THE INTERIOR BOTTOM OF SAID TROUGH, THE TROUGH SIDE WALLS BEING OF SUFFICIENT PARALLEL SPACING TO SLIDABLY RESTRAIN THE CARRIER BELT LATERAL EDGES, THE TROUGH SIDE WALLS BEING OF SUFFICIENT HEIGHT TO SO LATERALLY RESTRAIN AT LEAST THREE VERTICALLY ALIGNED SEGMENTS OF THE UNDULATELY FOLDABLE CARRIER BELT.