Cable chain
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorAnil Mistry
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Abstract
A plastic cable chain having two free ends comprises at least two metallic cables jacketed in a plastic material and spaced apart by cross-linked spacer members. Each of the cables have opposing free ends with a respective eyelet for facilitating the coupling of the eyelets on opposing cable free ends. The eyelets are connected by a connecting link to define thereby a continuous substantially plastic cable chain. In a preferred embodiment, the eyelets are formed by the free end of the cable being bent over and joined to another part of the cable to form a closed loop. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a length of the plastic cable as well as to a method of coupling the ends of the plastic cable together to make a continuous chain.
Claims13
A plastic cable chain having two opposing free ends, the chain comprising a plurality of metallic cables jacketed in a plastic material and spaced apart by cross-linked spacer members, each of the free ends of each of the cables having a respective eyelet for facilitating coupling between said free ends, the eyelets on the free ends of the cables being confrontingly aligned and coupled together by means of a connecting link to define thereby a continuous substantially plastic cable chain.
A method of manufacturing a length of plastic cable chain having two opposing free ends, including forming a chain comprising at least two metallic cables jacketed in plastics material and spaced apart by cross-linked spacer members, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming each of the free ends of the metallic cables with a respective eyelet;
- (b) aligning the eyelets of one free end with the eyelets of the other free end;
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- (c) coupling the eyelets of the free ends of the cable chain by a connecting link to define thereby a continuous substantially plastic cable chain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.