Cable armour stripping unit
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorJohnny Soerensen
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Abstract
A cable armour stripping unit is provided, including a frame configured to accommodate a transmission cable having a plurality of armoured outer layers arranged about an inner sheath enclosing a plurality of conductors and to hold a cutter arrangement including at least one cutting tool arranged to cut into an armoured outer layer of the cable; a vertical feed arrangement configured to effect a translation of the frame relative to the cable, and a rotation arrangement configured to effect a rotation of the frame relative to the cable. A method of stripping armour from a transmission cable is also provided.
Claims15
A cable armour stripping unit comprising:
- a frame configured to accommodate a transmission cable having a plurality of armoured outer layers arranged about an inner jacket enclosing a plurality of conductors and to hold a cutter arrangement comprising at least one cutting tool arranged to cut into an armoured outer layer of the plurality of armoured outer layers of the transmission cable;
- a vertical feed arrangement configured to effect a translation of the frame relative to the transmission cable;
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- a rotation arrangement configured to effect a rotation of the at least one cutting tool relative to the transmission cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.