Compression sleeves
AssigneeThe National Telephone Supply Company
InventorsRichard G. Meyers, Raymond Disantis
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Abstract
A compression sleeve for connecting and swaging cable has an outer housing having one or more passages therethrough for holding a cable having a sheath thereon. The passages have a series of teeth separated by blunt roots which extrudes and removes the sheath from the cable thereby swaging the sleeve to a metal portion of the cable. The sleeve can be pressed at a first central position such that the teeth engage the sheath of the cable. The sleeve can also be pressed at subsequent positions extending outwardly from the central position of the sleeve such that the teeth engage the sheath of the cable.
Claims21
A compression sleeve for connecting cable comprises:
- an outer housing having a first passage therethrough for holding a cable having a sheath thereon;
- wherein said first passage comprises a series of teeth separated by blunt roots which removes said sheath from said cable thereby swaging said sleeve to a metal portion of said cable.
A method of progressively pressing a sleeve to a cable, comprising:
- providing a sleeve having a plurality of teeth extending into a passage formed in said sleeve;
- extending a metal cable having a sheath thereon through said passage of a sleeve;
- pressing the sleeve at a first central position such that said teeth engage said sheath of said cable;
- pressing the sleeve at subsequent positions extending outwardly from said center portions of said sleeve such that said teeth engage said sheath of said cable;
- extruding said sheath from said cable and swaging said sleeve to said cable.
A method of roller crimping a serrated sleeve for connecting a cable, comprising:
- extending a cable having a coating thereon into at least one opening of said serrated sleeve;
- providing a first roller and a second roller on opposed sides of said serrated sleeve;
- rolling said first roller and said second roller in one of a first rolling direction and a second rolling direction thereby crimping said serrated sleeve onto said coated cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.