Patent ID: 7918270

Claim:
An apparatus to be used with services loops in an oil derrick, each service loop having a given length with at least an inner liner extending the length of the service loop and having a given diameter and surrounded by a braid extending the length of the service loop and having a given diameter, the apparatus comprising: a. a first interior retaining means affixed to the braid of a first service loop and positioned at a given longitudinal location along the length of the first service loop and a first interconnecting means affixed to the first interior retaining means and extending transversely from the first interior retaining means and a second interconnecting means affixed to the first interior retaining means and extending transversely from the first interior retaining means; b. a second interior retaining means affixed to the braid of a second service loop and positioned at a given longitudinal location along the length of the second service loop and a first interconnecting means affixed to the second interior retaining means and extending transversely from the second interior retaining means and a second interconnecting means affixed to the second interior retaining means and extending transversely from the second interior retaining means; c. each respective service loop having an exterior layer which surrounds the braid of that service loop and having a gap at each location of an interconnecting means to enable each interconnecting means of each respective service loop to extend through the exterior layer of each respective service loop; d. the first interconnecting means of the first service loop aligned with the first interconnecting means of the second service loop and the second interconnecting means of the first service loop aligned with the second interconnecting means of the second service loop; and e. a first flexible affixation means interconnecting the first interconnecting means of the first and second service loops and a second flexible affixation means interconnecting the second interconnecting means of the first and second service loops so that the two service loops are flexibly restrained to thereby prevent the two service loops from entangling as they move up and down the oil derrick.