A CABLE CHANNEL FILLER WITH IMBEDDED SHIELD AND CABLE CONTAINING THE SAME

摘要

A cable channel filler or spline (126) and a cable (40) containing the cable channel filler or spline in its core. The channel filler extends longitudinally and has a plurality of spaced longitudinally extending open pockets (128, 130, 132, 134) in which wires (42) or cables, such as unshielded twisted pair cables, are placed and form part of the core. The core containing the twisted pair cables in the pockets is jacketed. The channel filler has an imbedded shield (136) that extends into each of the channel filler pocket legs and is preferably prepared from a single tape. Alternatively when two tapes are used for the shield, the first tape has three shield legs and with one leg being a folded over leg and the second tape forms the fourth leg and has 20 to 50 percent or at least 1/16 inches of one of its sides encased by the folded over leg of the first tape.