Forming and stripping of conductors
AssigneeWestern Electric Company, Inc.
InventorHerbert Adolf Pohl
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Abstract
One or more projections are formed, and insulation is stripped, at interconnection areas along one or more conductors, e.g., plural conductive paths in a flat flexible cable, employing apparatus which comprises three rotary members. One or more protuberances on a first rotary member cooperate with a compliant backing surface on a second rotary member so as to form a projection in a conductor about each protuberance. Continued rotation of the first rotary member brings the insulation on each projection into contact with an abrasive surface on the third rotary member, while the protuberance on the first rotary member, about which the projection has been formed, serves as a backing surface to maintain the shape of the projection as the insulation is removed by the abrasive surface.
Claims8
A method of so operating on an elongated insulated conductor as to form a projection at an interconnection area along the conductor and to remove the insulation from the conductor at said interconnection area, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) in a forming location, engaging with said interconnection area along the conductor, a protuberance shaped to form a projection in the conductor about the protuberance;
- then
- (b) advancing said protuberance, with the projection retained thereon, into an insulation removing location spaced from said forming location;
- and then
- (c) removing the insulation from the conductor at said interconnection area while said protuberance, with the projection retained thereon, is disposed in said insulation removing location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.