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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 1978
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zvi Paniri, Scarborough, CA;
Thomas H Rudd, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Canada Wire and Cable Limited, Toronto, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
174103 ; 174 / ; 174115 ; 1741 / ;
Abstract
A self-supporting cable, more particularly a vertical riser, borehole, dredger and mine shaft cable is disclosed. The self-supporting cable comprises a cable core, a jacket surrounding the cable core and having one or two diametrically opposed sections of increased thickness, and at least one supporting member totally embedded in each jacket section of increased thickness and disposed parallel to the longitudinal axis of the cable. The supporting member preferably consists of wire ropes made of plural elementary strands wound around a central strand, each strand comprising plural individual wires twisted together.