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US 8,826,945 B1Granted
Apparatus and method for forming wire
OwnerThomas M. Clerkininventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for forming a single strand wire with improved flexibility and a stranded cable from a single strand wire. In one embodiment, the flexible single strand wire has a solid, single strand wire body and at least one helical groove formed on an outer circumferential surface of the wire body. The stranded cable includes a plurality of strands. In one embodiment, one of the strands has a planar surface that extends along a longitudinal axis of the cable body.
Claims4
A process for forming wire, the process comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a source of generally cylindrical single strand wire defining a longitudinal axis, wherein the single strand wire is a ductile metal, wherein the single strand wire has a solid core;
- (b) twisting the single strand wire in a first direction about the longitudinal axis;
- (c) forming a single substantially continuous longitudinal groove in the single strand wire without severing the single strand wire;
- (d) reshaping the single strand wire into a substantially circular cross-section by closing the longitudinal groove;
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- (e) twisting the single strand wire in a second direction about the longitudinal axis.
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