Finishing-contact system for swimming competitions

Claim 1

Finishing-contact system for swimming competitions, comprising a perforated plate, means for suspending this plate at the finishing face of the tract of a competitor and allowing displacement of the plate in a direction perpendicular to said finishing face, a number of horizontally disposed contact cables located between said plate and finishing face respectively, said cables having each two flat conductors maintained at a distance from each other by elastical means in unloaded state of the cable and enclosed together in an elastic tube, sheets of insulating material inserted between the conductors at the ends of each cable and sealing tubes applied to each end of each cable within reach of one of said sheets of insulating material. gClaim 2. A finishing-contact system for swimming competitions according to claim 1 in which said elastic tube is sealed at each end thereof, and connecting means are provided so that said flat conductors are removably connected to said plate, said connecting means continuously extending and acting on the full length of said cable. rClaim 3. A finishing-contact system for swimming competitions according to claim 1 in which said contact cables are electrically connected together. bClaim 4. A finishing-contact system for swimming competitions according to claim 1 in which a basin is adjacent which has a rim, and said plate has a horizontally extending flange covering and extending rearwardly over the upper edge of the finishing face onto the adjacent horizontal rim surface of the basin, and an uppermost contact cable is mounted on said flange. tClaim 5. A finishing-contact system for swimming competitions according to claim 1 which said contact cables are disposed at shorter intervals in the upper portion of said plate than in the lower portion thereof.