Patent ID: 6536063
Filing Date: 2003-03-25
Classification: B66C,F16G,H02G

Abstract:
A guide channel structure which can be fastened to a substructure, with a guide channel composed of long, parallel side elements having inner sides, between which a flexible object can be laid and moved, the guide channel structure comprising: a stationary structural element for fastening on a stationary section of the substructure, a movable structural element for fastening on a pivotable section of the substructure for pivot about a first axis of rotation in relation to the stationary section, and an intermediate structural element located between the stationary structural element and the movable structural element, which is connected to the movable structural element in a manner permitting pivoting about a second axis of rotation parallel to the first axis of rotation, where the stationary, movable and intermediate structural elements each display channel sections whose face ends lie in flush contact against each other on the inner sides of the side elements when the substructure is in a non-pivoted position, the pivot of the intermediate structural element coupled to the pivot of the movable structural element by a control device, the second axis of rotation for the intermediate structural element is located on a side of the guide channel to which the intermediate structural element is pivoted from the non-pivoted position, each of the channel section face ends of the intermediate and movable structural elements that contact each other is oriented at an angle with respect to the longitudinal direction of the respective structural element such that the movable structural element and the intermediate structural element move past, each other when the substructure is pivoted from the non-pivoted position.