Cable construction
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsJuergen Barfuss, Ulrich Oestreich, Gernot Schoeber, Wolfgang Schrey
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Abstract
A cable construction having a cable core of elements saturated with a filling material and surrounded by a barrier film which is surrounded by an outer sheath characterized by the inner surface of the barrier film having sub-areas containing an adhesive material with the remaining sub-areas being free of the adhesive layer. In one embodiment, an armored layer is interposed between the barrier film and the cable core and an outer adhesive layer is interposed between the barrier film and the outer sheath.
Claims17
In a cable, particularly an optical waveguide cable, having a cable core with a filling compound to produce longitudinal tightness, a barrier film surrounding the cable core and an outer sheath surrounding the barrier film, the improvements comprising an armor layer being composed of stranded material being interposed between the cable core and the barrier film and an adhesive material being disposed on an inner surface of the barrier film only in some sub-areas of the inner surface to form an adhesion between the armor layer and the barrier film only in the sub-areas while the remaining areas of the inner surface are free of the adhesive material and a connection to the armor layer.
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