Cable magazine
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson
InventorsPer Olov Hedlund, Lars Olof Hertsius
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Abstract
Cable magazine provided with two mainly parallel shafts on which sets of pulleys are arranged, and over which a cable is intended to be thread in several long and narrow coils, whereby one of the two sets of pulleys is stationary and the other one is movable and the sets of pulleys are intended to be moved away from each other when filling the cable magazine with cable and to be moved closer to each other when emptying the cable magazine of cables, which cable magazine is arranged with a mechanism for pulling the cables in form of a pulling wheel, against the periphery of which the cable is intended to be pressed and where said mechanism and the stationary set of pulleys are arranged on a common shaft.
Claims3
In a cable magazine comprising a first shaft and a second shaft spaced parallelly from said first shaft, said first shaft having rotatably mounted thereabout a plurality of pulleys and said second shaft also having rotatably mounted thereabout a plurality of pulleys, said second shaft and its associated plurality of pulleys being movable relative to said first shaft and its associated plurality of pulleys to thereby vary the distance between said shafts in accordance with the amount of cable being stored in said magazine, the improvement comprising:
- a grooved pulling wheel affixed to said first shaft for pulling cable into said cable magazine, and driving means connected to said first shaft for rotating said first shaft and said pulling wheel affixed thereto, said pulling wheel being affixed to said first shaft such that said plurality of pulleys of said first shaft are all positioned on one side of said pulling wheel, whereby loops of cable are formed between the plurality of pulleys on said first shaft and the plurality of loops on said second shaft.
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