Making electrical cable
AssigneeKabel-und Metallwerke Gutehoffnungshutte Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsEckard Schleese, Wolf Gunther, Willi Buddensiek
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Abstract
The cable is made by cascaded SZ pattern stranding of elements (individual conductors, or bundles) in a first stranding level by means of multiple units each having a stationary aperture disk, a reversably revolving aperture disk, a tube between them, and a stranding head downstream from the revolving disk, with a wrapping station between them, resulting in plural, stranded bundles serving as stranding elements in a further unit for second-level stranding and being basically similarly constructed as each of the first-mentioned units.
Claims3
A stranding machine, comprising:
- a plurality of stranding units, each including (i) a stationary disk with apertures;
- (ii) a rotatable disk with apertures;
- (iii) a tube extending between the disks and being fastened to one of them;
- (iv) a stranding head downstream from the rotatable disk;
- (v) a wrapping unit disposed between the rotatable disk and the head;
- means for feeding stranding elements to said units so that a plurality of stranded bundles leave said heads;
- a single drive means connected to all of said rotatable disks for reversibly driving all of the rotable disks;
- a further stranding unit having a stationary disk with apertures, a rotatable disk with apertures, a tube extending between the latter disks and being fastened to one of them, a stranding head, and means connected for reversibly driving said latter rotatable disk;
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- said stranded bundles being fed to said stationary disk of said further stranding unit so that a higher-order stranded bundle may be withdrawn from the head of further stranding unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.