Patent ID: 7175460

Claim:
A sheathed cable for underground mining, comprising a flexible sheath containing armouring and receiving the electric conductors, a cable connector being mounted on one end of the sheathed cable and comprising a one-part hollow coupling sleeve which engages over the sheath and receives the end of the sheathed cable in tension-resistant manner in a compression joint and also comprises a plug insert connected to the sleeve by a snap-in connection and receiving contact elements electrically connected to the conductors, wherein a cable feed-through opening in the hollow coupling sleeve is partly filled with sealing compound, in which the coupling sleeve has a continuation which is deformable in order to make the compression joint and exclusively receives the sheathed cable, sheath, conductors and armouring and in which the coupling sleeve and continuation are connected in tension-resistant manner to the sheathed cable exclusively via a crimp connection.