Amp LLC

Albert D Willette

Lincoln E Roberts

John James Tucci

James E Fleischhacker

Ronald D Sizemore

William Batty

An extension cord of flat cable, particularly for undercarpet use, comprising a strip of insulated conductors located in a stiffly flexible sleeve-form shield strip mounted at opposite ends in rigid outlet supporting housings with the conductors terminated to leads of the outlets. At one end of the cable, both the shield strip and the conductor strip are fixed to the housing preventing relative longitudinal movement, while, at the other end, only one of the strips is fixed to the housing, the other strip being free to move relatively longitudinally during a change in the extension cord from reeled to flat condition, Thereby avoiding straining the terminations or buckling the cable. In one example, the shield strip is fixed to the housing and the individual conductors of the conductor strip are connected to leads of the associated outlet by flexible metal bands bowed perpendicularly to the plane of the strip.

Extension cord of undercarpet flat cable

A method for routing a Flat Conductor Cable Assembly (1) in which a cable (10) includes conductors (12) (14)(16) contained in a sheath (18) and the sheath is enclosed within a sealed envelope (2)(4), in which the envelope is entered and the cable routed along an angle turn or spliced to another like cable, and the envelope is resealed.

Method for splicing a flat conductor cable enclosed within a sealed

Plastic molding apparatus is disclosed for forming a series of molded connector bodies along a molded strip segment. By repeating the molding cycle, an additional strip segment is simultaneously molded and joined to a previously made strip segment, so that repeated cycling of the molding machine provides a molded continuous strip interconnecting a series of molded bodies.

Molding plastic bodies on continuous strip

The present invention relates to utilization of a flat conductor cable enclosed within a sealed envelope. In particular, methods are disclosed for entering the envelope to route the cable along an angle turn or to splice the cable to another, like cable.

Sealed routing of undercarpet cable

The present invention relates to apparatus for storing and serially positioning a series of carrier strip mounted electrical connectors at a wire insertion station whereat pairs of small gauge insulated wires are trimmed and inserted into the electrical connectors. Each wire-receiving portion of a connector is located by a projecting portion on the connector. A reeling device advances the carrier strip until the projecting portion registers against a stop which momentarily positions the wire-receiving portion correctly at the insertion station. Subsequent to connection of a pair of wires in the connector the stop is removed allowing advancement of the carrier strip. The stop is then replaced to engage another of the projections on the same connector or another connector to position momentarily another wire-receiving portion of the connector at the insertion station. By applying continuous tension on the carrier strip each wire-receiving portion is advanced and momentarily positioned at the wire-receiving station despite any variation in the length of feed required of the carrier strip.

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Pfafftown, NC, United States of America

Albert D Willette