Patent ID: 8287787

Claim:
A method for cooling a cable, the method comprising the steps of: providing a cooling trough including a base having a cooling liquid reservoir, a wet cooling chamber, and an air dry chamber; passing cable to a first rotatable sheave in the wet cooling chamber of the cooling trough; cooling the cable by spraying a cooling liquid from spray nozzles onto the cable as it passes from the first rotatable sheave to a second rotatable sheave in the wet cooling chamber; draining cooling liquid from the wet cooling chamber into the cooling liquid reservoir in the base; passing the cable from the wet cooling chamber to the air dry chamber; drying the cable in the air dry chamber by injecting air onto the cable to separate cooling liquid from the cable; draining cooling liquid separated from the cable in the air dry chamber into the cooling liquid reservoir in the base; and enclosing the base, the wet cooling chamber and the air dry chamber in a housing comprising at least three walls and a door.