Patent ID: 7980051

Claim:
A cable winding machine for winding a plurality of subconductors into a cable comprising: a subconductor feeder or feeders arranged to move through the machine in a machine direction multiple subconductors having a width dimension across a longitudinal axis greater than a depth dimension through the longitudinal axis perpendicular to the width dimension, as the subconductors are wound together into a cable by the machine, a holder arranged to hold a first subconductor as it moves forward through the machine, a first winder arranged to rotate at least a second subconductor and a third subconductor about the first subconductor as the first, second and third subconductors move through the machine in the machine direction, so that the second subconductor winds with the first subconductor and then the third subconductor winds with the first and second subconductors, after the winder in the machine direction, said first winder being arranged to hold said second and third subconductors in a predetermined orientation relative to said first subconductor and with each other as the first winder rotates the second, third, and any further subconductors about the first subconductor, so that the width dimensions of the subconductors remain substantially parallel to one another as the subconductors move through the machine and are wound together.