Apparatus for producing communication cables

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION CABLES BY CABLING INDIVIDUAL CABLE ELEMENTS ABOUT A CORE, COMPRISING TWO TERMINAL DEVICES COAXIALLY SPACED FROM EACH OTHER AND EACH HAVING A STRUCTURE ROTATABLE ABOUT THE COMMON AXIS, TWO DRUMS JOURNALED ON SAID RESPECTIVE TWO STRUCTURES FOR SELECTIVE PAY-OUT AND PULL-IN OPERATION, EACH DRUM BEING CAPABLE OF ACCOMMODATING EITHER A SUPPLY OF CORE OR THE CABLED STRAND COMPRISED OF CORE AND CABLE ELEMENT LAYER, DEPENDING UPON THE ROTARY DIRECTION OF SAID DRUMS; A MULTIPLICITY OF STATIONARILY ARRANGED CABLE ELEMENT SUPPLY MEANS, TWISTING MEANS FOR PASSING RESPECTIVE ELEMENTS FROM SAID CABLE ELEMENT SUPPLY MEANS ONTO SAID CORE AS THE LATTER PASSES FROM ONE DRUM TO SAID OTHER DRUM, A THIRD STRUCTURE ROTATABLE ABOUT SAID AXIS AND A REVERSIBLE CABLE PULL DEVICE MOUNTED THEREON, CABLE ELEMENT GUIDING MEANS LOCATED ON EACH SIDE OF SAID CABLE PULL DEVICE FOR GUIDING CABLE ELEMENTS ADAPTED TO SURROUND SAID CORE FROM SAID CABLE ELEEMENT SUPPLY MEANS INTO EACH END OF SAID REVERSIBLE CABLE PULL DEVICE, AND SYNCHRONOUS DRIVE MEANS CONNECTED WITH SAID THREE STRUCTURES FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY ROTATING THEM DURING THE CABLING OPERATION ABOUT SAID AXIS, ALL THREE STRUCTURES HAVING THE SAME SENSE OF ROTATION, WHEREBY THE APPARATUS AFFORDS PRODUCING SEQUENTIAL LAYERS OF CABLE ELEMENTS IN SEQUENTIAL CABLING PASSES WITH ALTERNATELY REVERSED TRAVEL DIRECTIONS OF THE CORE.