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US 11,139,090 B1Granted
Electrical cables with non-metallic jackets and methods of fabricating the same
AssigneeEncore Wire Corporation
InventorsDavid K. Smith, William T. Bigbee, Jr., Jose D. Garza, Mark D. Bennett
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Abstract
An electrical cable having a plurality of conductors including a grounding conductor and at least one power-carrying conductor. The plurality of conductors disposed approximately in parallel within an outer jacket such that the electrical cable has a substantially elongated horizontal cross-section.
Claims16
A method of fabricating an electrical cable:
- passing a plurality of insulated conductors and a bare conductor through a first guide plate to parallelize the plurality of insulated conductors and the bare conductor;
- passing the bare conductor through a paper folder to wrap the bare conductor with paper;
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- extruding a jacket around the parallelized insulated and paper-wrapped bare conductors to produce an NM-type cable having a generally elongated horizontal cross-section.
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A method of fabricating an NM-type electrical cable:
- parallelizing at least three insulated conductors and a bare conductor;
- wrapping the bare conductor with paper;
- wrapping the parallelized at least three insulated and paper-wrapped bare conductors with paper to produce a paper-wrapped assembly;
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- forming jacket around the paper-wrapped assembly to produce a generally elongated horizontal cross-section with the at least three insulated conductors and the paper-wrapped bare conductor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.