Pole-top insulator
View Patent ↗A pole-top insulator for carrying overhead electrical cables on pole legs or similar supporting structures located along power lines. One or more self-supporting tubular supporting arms made of electrically insulating composite material to which supporting cables are fixed are arranged on the top end of the supporting structures. The tubular supporting arms are joined to the supporting structure via an intermediate center part that can be attached to the supporting structure from which the tubular supporting arms extend outwards.
1. A pole-top insulator for carrying overhead electrical lines on a supporting structure, the pole-top insulator comprising:
at least one self-supporting tubular supporting arm made of electrically insulating composite material, the at least self-supporting arm being attached to the upper end of the supporting structure; and
a common intermediate center part operative to join the at least one self-supporting arm to the supporting structure, the center part comprising support tubes each including an opening, each opening being operative to receive an end of one of the at least one self-supporting arms, such that the at least one self-supporting arm is supported along a considerable part of its outer edge when attached to the center part, and wherein the at least one self-supporting arm extends outwards from the center part.
2. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one self-supporting arm is designed as an essentially continuous element comprising a first end inserted into the insert openings and a second free end.
3. The pole-top insulator according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a retainer arranged on the free end of the at least one self-supporting the retainer being operative to support the lines.
4. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the center part is designed in one unit separate from the at least one self-supporting arm.
5. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the center part is made of a conductive material.
6. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the pole-top insulator comprises a plurality of self-supporting arms extending from the center part at different relative angles.
7. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein one of the at least one self-supporting arm extends vertically up from the center part.
8. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the insulator comprises a plurality of self-supporting arms, wherein two of the self-supporting arms extend horizontally from the center part.
9. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the insulator comprises a plurality of self-supporting arms, wherein the self-supporting arms are angled such that phase leads attached to the self-supporting arms are kept braced at a distance from each other in a triangular shape viewed along a direction of the phase leads.
10. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the pole-top insulator comprises three self-supporting arms arranged in a shape of an inverted T.
11. The pole-top insulator according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one self-supporting arm and the center part are designed as one integrated prefabricated unit.