Metal clad cable cutting machine
AssigneeGreenlee Tools, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Frederick Nordlin, Dale Ritchie Williams, Sean A. Daugherty, John Jeremiah Morton, Daniel John Marben
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Abstract
A machine forms a whip from a length of cable. The machine includes a clamping assembly, a notching assembly, and a cutting assembly. The clamping assembly includes a pad which can be move into and out of a cable travel space. The notching assembly includes a notching saw which cuts an outer jacket of the cable in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis. Movement of the pad also causes movement of the notching saw to move into the cable travel space or into a raised position. The cutting assembly includes a cutting tool which transversely cuts the conductors of the cable.
Claims20
A machine configured to form at least one whip from a length of a cable having an outer jacket, and one or more conductors enclosed by the outer jacket, comprising:
- an input into which the cable is fed into the machine and an output through which the whip exits the machine, wherein a cable travel space is defined along a longitudinal axis between the input and the output;
- a feed assembly configured to receive the cable from the input, the feed assembly including a feed roller, and a first motor operatively connected to the feed roller, the first motor configured to rotate the feed roller in a first direction to advance the cable along the cable travel space from the input toward the output;
- a clamping assembly configured to receive the cable from the input, the clamping assembly comprising:
- a pad, and
- a second motor operatively connected to the pad, wherein a first activation of the second motor causes the pad to move into the cable travel space and a second activation of the second motor causes the pad to move out of the cable travel space;
- a notching assembly comprising:
- a notching saw, and
- a third motor operatively connected to the notching saw, wherein activation of the third motor causes the notching saw to cut the outer jacket of the cable in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis to form a notch in the cable,
- wherein the second motor is operatively connected to the notching assembly and movement of the second motor causes the notching saw to move into the cable travel space or into a raised position wherein the notching saw is out of the cable travel space;
- and
- a cutting assembly configured to receive the cable having the notch therein from the notching assembly, the cutting assembly comprising:
- a cutting tool having at least one cutting edge, and
- a fourth motor operatively connected to the cutting tool, wherein activation of the fourth motor causes the at least one cutting edge of the cutting tool to completely cut the conductors of the cable in a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis to form a whip, and
- wherein the output is configured to receive the whip from the cutting assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.