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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 22, 1990
Max Koch, Meggen, CH;
TTC Technology Trading Company, Meggen, CH;
Abstract
The method and the apparatus for the performance of the method for feeding cable into an automatic cable-processing machine allows to move normal cables (18) and cables of reduced wall thickness at high speeds. The cable (18) is driven by the driving surfaces (3.1, 8.1) of two belts, (3, 8), where the belts (3. 8) of two belt drives (b 1.2), roll off one another. The first belt drive (1) is stationary, while the second belt drive (2) is arranged to be parallel displaceable and disposed perpendicular to its driving surface (8.1). The second belt drive (2) can be pressed onto a laid-in cable (18) by at least one pneumatic piston-cylinder unit (24). In order to assure a clean passage of a cable (18) through the belt drives (1, 2), a cable clamping and tightening device (19) is arranged on the cable feed side (16), and a cable-clamping device (20) is arranged on the cable exit side (17). Thereby, the laid-in cable (18 ) is tightened and precisely aligned before the start of operations. The driving surface (8.1) of the displaceable belt drive (2) projects beyond the driving surface (3.1) of the stationary belt drive (1) and serves for the reception of a driving roller (21) of an adjustable cable length-measuring apparatus (22).