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US 5,180,890 AGranted
Communications transmission cable
AssigneeIndependent Cable, Inc.
InventorsPaul J. Pendergrass, Edmund Allcock
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Abstract
A communications transmission cable includes at least two jacket encased portions each joined to an adjacent jacket encased portion at a recessed section. Jacket encased portions include at least one conductor and at least one strength member, and are readily separated at each recessed section.
Claims16
A communications transmission cable comprising
- a jacket having
- at least two jacket encased portions, each joined to at least one adjacent, jacket encased portion at a recessed section;
- wherein
- each jacket encased portion includes at least one conductor spaced apart from and approximately parallel to at least one strength member;
- whereby
- the jacket encased portions are readily separable at each recessed section.
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A communications transmission cable comprising
- a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a jacket having
- two jacket encased portions joined to at a recessed section;
- wherein
- each jacket encased portion includes at least one conductor spaced apart from and approximately parallel to at least one strength member, and the recessed section is disposed along the longitudinal axis;
- whereby
- the jacket encased portions are readily separable at the recessed section.
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A communications transmission cable comprising
- at least two conductors;
- at least two strength members;
- and
- a jacket having
- at least two jacket encased portions;
- a longitudinal axis;
- and
- a center recessed section discontinuous with the surface of the jacket;
- wherein
- each jacket encased portion includes at least one conductor and at least one strength member;
- and
- the centered recessed section is disposed along the jacket longitudinal axis;
- whereby
- the conductors are supported by the strength members and jacket encased portions;
- and,
- when the center recessed section is severed along the jacket longitudinal axis, the conductors within each portion remain encased and supported by that jacket encased portion and supported by at least one strength member.
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A communications transmission cable including
- at least two conductors covered with insulating material and formed into twisted pairs;
- at least two strength members;
- and
- a jacket having
- a longitudinal axis,
- at least one principal recessed section, and
- at least two jacket encased portions attached together at a principal recessed section, each portion including a bulbous section and a rectangular section attached to the bulbous section by a secondary recessed section;
- wherein
- the center, principal recessed section is disposed along the jacket longitudinal axis, each bulbous section encases a fraction of all conductors, and each rectangular section encases a fraction of all conductors;
- and each rectangular section encases a fraction of all strength members;
- whereby
- the conductors are supported by the strength members and the jacket encased portions;
- and, when a principal recessed section is severed, the conductors within each portion encased portion remain encased by that portion's bulbous section, and supported by the bulbous section, an attached rectangular section, and the strength members within the attached rectangular section.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.