Method for manufacturing and marking cable
AssigneeKabelmetal Electro GmbH
InventorsManfred Obermeier, Erhard Herrmann
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Abstract
There is disclosed a method of manufacturing and marking a cable including the steps of drawing a plurality of conductors in a longitudinal direction through an apparatus that affixes a plurality of magnetizable inserts along the length of the conductors with a distribution associated with a plurality of particular locations along the length of such conductors; applying a protective jacket of insulating material about the conductors and affixed magnetizable inserts; and marking the outside of the protective jacket in accordance with control signals generated by a sensing device that detects the presence of each of the magnetizable inserts as the cable is drawn through the sensing device.
Claims11
Method of manufacturing and marking a cable comprising a core including a plurality of parallel extending electric conductors and/or light wave conductors, comprising the steps of:
- drawing a plurality of conductors in a longitudinal direction through a means for affixing a plurality of magnetizable inserts along the length of said conductors, each of said inserts being positioned in association with one of a plurality of particular locations included along said conductors and separated by interposed longitudinal distances;
- drawing said plurality of conductors through a means for applying a protective jacket of insulating material about said conductors and said magnetizable inserts to form a cable;
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- drawing said cable through a means for placing markings along the outside of said protective jacket, said marking means including a sensing means that provides control signals as each of said magnetizable inserts moves through said sensing means.
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