Patent ID: 6438824
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: H01B,Y10T

Abstract:
A method for continuously manufacturing a communication cable including steps of continuously hauling-off an elongated bundle, which has a plurality of transmission elements selected from electrical and optical elements, along a path extending along a longitudinal bundle axis of a moving bundle in a haul-off direction, continuously supplying at least two elongated retainer elements to said continuously moving bundle, continuously forming loops from a first of the retainer elements and chaining the loops of said first retainer element with at least a second retainer element at successive, discrete locations of the continuously moving bundle, each loop being continuously conveyed farther in the haul-off direction of the bundle by a movement of the continuously hauled-off bundle and thereby being cinched to provide a retaining force on the bundle, continuously implementing said loop forming and chaining of said retainer elements over the entire length of the continuously moving bundle to form a loop structure around said bundle to hold the elements of the bundle over the entire length of the bundle together to prevent unraveling of the bundle, and applying the bundle with said loop structure as a core of said communication cable.