Filled service cable having corrugated shield and methods of making
AssigneeWestern Electric Company, Inc.
InventorJoseph M. Hacker
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Abstract
A cable comprises a plurality of insulated conductors enclosed in a corrugated metallic shield jacketed with a plastic material. As a corrugated metallic tape is wrapped longitudinally about the core to form the shield, overlapping longitudinal edge portions of the shield are intentionally spaced apart radially. When the plastic jacket is extruded over the shield, a portion of the plastic material extends between the overlapped but spaced apart longitudinal edge portions. This prevents lock-in of the corrugations along the overlapped edge portions and provides the cable with an additional degree of freedom of movement so that the cable can withstand placement stresses caused by sharp radius bending during installation without shield separation or cracking.
Claims3
A method of making a cable in which a core is enclosed in a shield having an overlapped longitudinally extending seam and a jacket of a vinyl chloride polymer material, the method comprising the steps of:
- advancing a cable core;
- wrapping longitudinally a corrugated metallic tape about the core to form a shield having an overlapped longitudinally extending seam;
- radially separating the overlapped longitudinal edge portions of the shield;
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- extruding a vinyl chloride polymer material about the shield with a portion of the extrudate forming an intrusion of polymeric material having substantially predetermined dimensions between the overlapping edge portions of the shield.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.