Patent ID: 7514628

Claim:
A cable laying configuration disposed in a conduit selected from the group consisting of galleries, tunnels, shafts, pipes, and channels, the configuration comprising: at least one cable selected from the group consisting of electric cables, data and information transport cables, control cables, fiber optic cables, and fluid transport tubes, said cable said being unwound from a drum from a region of an opening providing access to an installation shaft or access shaft toward a respective pipe or channel, or drawn or fixed in a stationary manner in the pipe or the channel, a stationary positioning of said cable and the cable laying configuration being obtained and ensured by a force of gravity and a frictional fit thus arising with the pipe or channel; a flexible and/or articulated carrier band having an underside and lateral edges, said carrier band to be pulled into the pipe or into the channel, disposed at a distance from a bottom of the pipe or from a channel sole and laid a against an inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel, adjoining both sides with said lateral edges, and forming a substantially flat second bottom in the pipe or the channel disposed above the pipe base and/or the channel sole; and at least one continuous weighting body having a plurality of weighting elements spaced from one another and disposed on the pipe base or the channel sole, said weighting body preventing said cable from floating up due to water or waste water disposed in the pipe or the channel; said weighting body being suspended from said carrier band when said lateral edges of said carrier band are supported by the inner wall surface of the pipe or the channel.