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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 05, 1989
Dave J Kihlken, Richmond, IN (US);
John J Deeter, Batavia, IL (US);
Harry Nelson, Richmond, IN (US);
Cooper Industries, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Apparatus for applying marking to the outside surface of an outer jacket of a cable assembly including a cable having flat cable sections and sections where the conductors are not held. The apparatus includes a supply station for providing a length of the cable, a take up station for taking up the completed cable assembly, and a driver for moving the cable toward the take up station. The apparatus also includes a flat cable section detector adjacent the supply station for marking a flat cable section with an implant, and an extruder positioned downstream of the flat cable section detector for providing the outer jacket about the cable and the implant. The apparatus further includes an implant detector disposed downstream of the extruder for detecting the passage of the implant, and a printer located between the implant detector and the take up station and which is responsive to the implant detector for marking the location of a flat cable section on the outside surface of the outer jacket.