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US 7,845,069 B2Granted
Methods for forming armored cable assembly
AssigneeCommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
InventorsRobert Brian Franklin, Jimmy Dameron
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Abstract
A method for forming an armored cable assembly includes: forming an armor sheath using an armor sheath forming apparatus, the armor sheath defining a sheath passage; forcibly feeding a transmission cable into the sheath passage upstream of an exit capstan to provide an excess length of the transmission cable in the armor sheath upstream of the exit capstan; and drawing the armor sheath downstream of the armor sheath forming apparatus using the exit capstan.
Claims15
A method for forming an armored cable assembly, the method comprising:
- forming an armor sheath using an armor sheath forming apparatus, the armor sheath defining a sheath passage;
- forcibly feeding a transmission cable into the sheath passage upstream of an exit capstan to provide an excess length of the transmission cable in the armor sheath upstream of the exit capstan;
- and
- drawing the armor sheath downstream of the armor sheath forming apparatus using the exit capstan.
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