Westland Helicopters Limited

Gerrard G Farmer

Gary R Cashmore

An electrically conductive ribbon is wound into contact with the screen of each of a plurality of individual conductors in a multicore cable and is passed through a continuous boundary aperture in the tubular body portion of a backshell which is rotated to wind the ribbon about the cable until the ribbon tightly fills the space between the ribbon wound portion of the cable and the internal surface of the body portion to anchor the cable to the tubular body portion. The free end of the ribbon is then severed substantially flush with the external surface of the tubular body portion.

Method of connecting screened multicore cables to a connector body

A backshell for connecting screened multi-core cables includes a tubular body portion which in a preferred embodiment includes a plurality of circumferentially arranged holes one of which, in use, receives the free end of an electrically conductive ribbon wound round the wires of the cable and in contact with their individual screens. Rotation of the body portion winds the ribbon around the periphery of the cable until the space is filled, the ribbon being wound externally round the tubular body portion and secured with termination means whereby the individual screens are connected electrically to the backshell. Attachment means facilitate attachment of the backshell either to a cylindrical connector body or to a hollow box member for connection in turn to a rectangular connector body.

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Sherborne, United Kingdom

Gerrard G Farmer