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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4863541 | Apparatus and method for manufacturing heat-shrinkable sleeve using solid core Long lengths of a heat-shrinkable sleeve for use in splicing electrical cables and the like are manufactured by providing an elongated impermeable core having a smooth outer surface, extruding an elongated sleeve around and in contact with the core, the s... | 09/05/1989 |
| 4822952 | Electrical cable joint and electrical cable termination and methods of making same A joint structure for covering a joint between cables is provided in which an insulation structure extends over and beyond cut back ends of insulation layers of the cables, but terminates at a distance ahead of cut back ends of insulation shield layers of... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4681985 | Premolded mechanically prestressed voltage stress control cones for high voltage cables and method of fabricating same Voltage stress control cones for high voltage cable terminations are produced by premolding and radially expanding to mechanically prestress. The mechanically prestressed premolded cone is slipped over the insulation of a cable end and heat relaxed to shr... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4533789 | High voltage electric power cable with thermal expansion accommodation The insulation shield in a power cable having thick polymeric insulation is constructed of a metallic layer radially spaced from but in electrical communication with an inner semiconducting layer by an intervening helical wrap of a semiconducting or high ... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4519759 | Apparatus for making shrinkable tubing Long lengths of a heat-shrinkable sleeve for use in splicing electrical cables and the like are made in a continuous process. The sleeve is formed around a permeable core, and the core and sleeve are advanced together in an axial direction, the leading en... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4487994 | Electrical cable joint structure and method of manufacture A multilayer, heat shrinkable composite tube covering is provided for a cable joint structure in which intimately joined layers define a semiconductive inner or conductor shield, an insulation layer, and an outer or insulation shield for the joint. Furthe... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4457975 | Tree resistant power cable An improved method and apparatus for fabricating insulated cables, particularly polymeric insulated electrical power cables, resistant to the formation and growth of electrochemical trees is disclosed. Internal pressure on the conductor side of the cable ... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4446095 | Method for manufacturing heat shrinkable tubing Long lengths of a heat-shrinkable sleeve for use in splicing electrical cables and the like are made in a continuous process. The sleeve is formed around a permeable core, and the core and sleeve are advanced together in an axial direction, the leading en... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4372988 | Extension of cable life A method and apparatus for retarding electrochemical tree-type decomposition of polyolefin electrical insulation by saturating the insulation with a liquid having high resistivity and a low dielectric constant. The insulation of cables which have already ... | 02/08/1983 |
