Patent ID: 6637488
Filing Date: 2003-10-28
Classification: H01B,Y10T

Abstract:
A tape-sheathing device for an electric wire, said device comprising: a plurality of dies, each die including a tapered hole that tapers from a large diameter at an upstream end to a smaller diameter at a downstream end, said plurality of dies being arranged in series along an axial line in a feeding direction;each die, except the most downstream die in the feeding direction, having a notch therein extending from said tapered hole to an outer periphery thereof that communicates with said tapered hole, and wherein the notch of each die is arranged out of alignment, in a radial direction of the axial line, from the notch of each other die; whereby tape passing through each die is caused to be successively wrapped about only a portion of the electric wire as the tape and the electric wire pass through the series of dies, and the tape is completely wrapped by said most downstream die.