Device for measuring the length of a cable for processing
AssigneeKomax Holding HG
InventorsStefan Viviroli, Daniel Fischer
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for measuring the length of a cable for obtaining a reference measurement wherein a belt drive advances the cable through a first gripper until the cable is under separating/stripping cutters which cut the cable. The cable is advanced by a length measured by the belt drive, a leading cable-end being passed under a cable-end detector, and the cable is held tightly by the first gripper and with a linear backward movement, the cable is withdrawn until the leading cable-end leaves the cable-end detector. A correction factor is calculated by a control from the distance between the separating/stripping cutters and the cable-end detector and from the travel of the first gripper during the backward movement.
Claims11
A method for measuring a length of a cable being fed to processing stations for processing, wherein a cable-advancing device advances the cable and feeding devices feed cable-ends of the cable to the processing stations, comprising the steps of:
- a) operating the cable-advancing device to advance the cable under separating/stripping cutters which cut off the leading cable-end of the cable;
- b) advancing the cable by a length measured by the cable-advancing device, the leading cable-end being passed under a cable-end detector;
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- c) moving one of the cable and the cable-end detector until the leading cable-end leaves the cable-end detector, a difference between the length measured in said step b) and the movement in said step c) representing an actual length of the cable.
A device for measuring the length of a cable being fed to processing stations for processing, wherein a cable-advancing device advances the cable and feeding devices feed the cable-ends to the processing stations, comprising:
- a cable-end detector for detecting a leading cable-end of a cable being advanced by a cable-advancing device along a measuring path, said cable-end detector being positioned at an end of the measuring path for generating a reference measurement signal representing a detection of the leading cable-end.
A cable processing apparatus comprising:
- a cable-advancing device for advancing a cable with a leading cable-end along a measuring path;
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- a cable-end detector for detecting a leading cable-end of a cable being advanced by a cable-advancing device along a measuring path, said cable-end detector being positioned at an end of the measuring path for generating a reference measurement signal representing a detection of the leading cable-end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.