Patent ID: 8397480

Claim:
An energy guide chain for guiding cables and hoses between two connection points movable relative to each other, comprising: a plurality of hingedly interconnected tubular chain links which each have a bottom wall, oppositely disposed side walls laterally adjoining the bottom wall and a top wall, wherein the top wall is removably connected to the side walls, the side walls each have a respective hinge pin and a hinge opening for hingedly connecting adjacent chain links and pivoting the adjacent links in two opposing pivotal directions, a pivotal angle of the adjacent chain links being limited in both pivotal directions by an abutment of one of the chain links, and the top walls, the side walls and the bottom walls of the adjacent chain links in a telescopically overlapping relationship over the entire pivotal angle, wherein the top wall and the bottom wall, a transitional zone between the top wall and the bottom wall, and the side walls of each chain link are convexly curved in a peripheral direction of the tubular chain links, and wherein the top wall and the bottom wall of each chain link includes a scraper which bears against the top wall and the bottom wall, respectively, of the adjacent chain link.