Patent ID: 7526910

Claim:
A cable protection and guide device comprising: a number of pairs of right and left spaced link plates are articulately connected to each other in a longitudinal direction enabling said link plates to form a flexional circumferential bend having a flexional inner circumferential side and flexional outer circumferential side; each of said link plates includes a flexional inner circumferential side residing during bending on said flexional inner circumferential side of said bend; each of said link plates includes an outer circumferential side residing during bending on said outer flexional circumferential side of said bend; each of said link plates includes a concave portion; connecting plates are bridged over said flexional inner circumferential sides and said flexional outer circumferential sides of said link plates; said pairs of right and left spaced link plates are connected to each other; each of said pairs of right and left spaced link plates include flexional restricting means for limiting flexional movement during bending; a shoe; said shoe includes a front end portion, a rear end portion, a center portion having a protrusion portion and a side wall portion; said side wall portion of said shoe is formed of soft resin enabling flexibility of said side wall; said side wall portion of said shoe includes a hook formed of soft resin enabling flexibility of said hook; said center portion is formed of hard resin; said protrusion portion of said center portion formed of hard resin; said hook of each of said shoes interengages said concave portion of each of said link plates; each of said link plates includes an insertion opening, said link plate being molded from a hard resin; said protrusion portion of said shoe residing in said insertion opening of said link plate; and, said shoe removably attached to said flexional inner circumferential side of each said link plate.