APPARATUS FOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COMPACTED CABLES BY USE OF RIGID CAGE STRANDERS

摘要

An apparatus for manufacturing cable including a cage strander for rotation about a line axis. Bobbins are supported by the cage strander and arranged for dispensing round conductors downstream thereof for receiving the conductors and forming them into a plurality of complementary segmented pre-shaped wires each having a desired cross-sectional profile in a final compact conductor and each defining at least lateral surfaces. The formed conductors are positioned and oriented to substantially correspond to the positions and orientations between such wires in the final twisted compact conductor. A first drive means rotates the forming apparatus and a second drive drives the forming apparatus. These driving means are synchronized to allow the formed conductors to be closed about the core causing the lateral surfaces of adjacent pre-shaped wires to substantially abut each other and produce a cable wherein the interstices between the wires forming the twisted conductor are substantially eliminated.