Patent ID: 6401784
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: H01B,Y10T

Abstract:
A tool for sheathing a bundle of elongate elements by wrapping the bundle in a flexible adhesive tape that is wrapped transversely to its long direction around the bundle and whose longitudinal margins are united by adhesive, the tool comprising a shaping member for shaping the tape, which shaping member possesses a deflector edge extending in a plane that is inclined relative to the direction the tape arrives in the shaping member and to the longitudinal direction of the bundle, wherein the shaping member comprises a sleeve of substantially circular cross-section that possesses a sloping end forming the deflector edge, and opposite to the point where the tape arrives therein, a longitudinal slot through which the longitudinal margins of the tape pass, the sleeve having at least one longitudinal hinge to enable it to be opened and to enable the tape to be put into place therein.