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US 2011/0061894 A1Published application
Apparatus and method for forming wire
OwnerThomas M. Clerkininventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for forming a single strand wire with improved flexibility and a stranded cable from a single strand wire. In one embodiment, the flexible single strand wire has a solid, single strand wire body and at least one helical groove formed on an outer circumferential surface of the wire body. The stranded cable includes a plurality of strands. In one embodiment, one of the strands has a planar surface that extends along a longitudinal axis of the cable body.
Claims14
A stranded cable comprising:
- an elongated cable body comprising a plurality of ductile metal strands, wherein the strands include a longitudinally-extending planar portion and a longitudinally-extending arcuate portion;
- wherein the arcuate portions of the strands define a substantially continuous and uninterrupted circumferential surface of the cable body;
- and
- wherein the planar portions of strands are adjacent at least one planar portion of another strand to minimize gaps between the plurality of strands.
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A stranded cable comprising:
- a cable body comprising a plurality of ductile metal strands, wherein each of the strands include longitudinally-extending planar portions joined at a vertex and a longitudinally-extending arcuate portion;
- wherein the arcuate portions of the strands define a substantially continuous and uninterrupted circumferential surface of the cable body;
- and
- wherein planar portions of strands are adjacent at least one planar portion of another strand to minimize gaps between the plurality of strands.
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A stranded cable comprising:
- a cable body comprising a plurality of ductile metal strands severed from the same single strand wire, wherein each of the strands include a longitudinally-extending arcuate portion;
- and
- wherein the arcuate portions of the strands define a substantially continuous and uninterrupted circumferential surface of the cable body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.