A process for producing a pressuretight cable termination.

摘要

A process for producing a pressuretight termination of a multi-wire communications cable which can be put under gas pressure provides, within a transition zone which contains the end of the trimmed-back cable jacket (3) and a section of the bared wires (5) emerging from the cable jacket, a curable sealing composition (11) in a flexible sheath (15) which is heat sealed on the cable jacket (3) at an end section (21) on the cable side. The sealing composition (11) used is arranged to be cured at a higher rate by applying heat (25) and the sheath (15) is made of a heat-shrinkable material. The sheath (15) is sealed against the bundle of wires (5) at an end section (17) remote from the cable (1) and is shrunk onto the bundle of bared wires and sealing composition (11) thereon by the application of heat.