Fig. 2. Cone and collar on cable. 



THE CABLE SYSTEM 



quickly. Each terminal assembly consists of a 

 cone and collar held together by three bolts 

 (Fig. l) . The collar is slipped over the armour 

 braid to the position the assembly is to occupy 

 on the cable. The cone is slipped over the 

 neoprene jacket with the partially unbraided 

 armour ribbons ascending the cone. Each ribbon 

 is inserted through the proper hole in the base 

 of the cone as the cone is pushed toward the 

 collar, clamping the armour between the two 

 identically inclined surfaces (Fig. 2). The 

 three bolts are tightened sufficiently to lightly 

 clamp the ribbons in place. A slight pressure is 

 applied to each ribbon by pulling easily where 

 it exits from the back of the cone. After each 

 ribbon has been positioned, the three self -locking 

 bolts are torgued to 30 foot points to firmly 

 entrap the armour in the terminal assembly. 

 Numerous tests of this assembly on a tension 

 testing machine produced breaking strengths equal 

 to that of the uninterrupted cable. 



The cable to be used contained 1+8 twisted 

 pairs in 7 bundles enclosed in a watertight 

 jacket of neoprene. The conductors are solid 

 copper to reduce cable diameter and facilitate 

 design of an anti-hosing cable. The armour 

 braid of flat stainless steel ribbons woven 

 external to the neoprene jacket provided opti- 

 mum flexibility with a minimum of added diameter 

 and weight. 



Flat stainless steel ribbons readily adapt 

 themselves to a terminating scheme which produces 

 reliable strain member connection easily and 



Two terminal assemblies after being clamped to 

 sections of cable, are joined by three stainless 

 steel rope assemblies so that a flexible connec- 

 tion exists between the strain members of two 

 cable sub-assembly sections. 



The separation of k inches between the two 

 terminal assemblies provides space for the elec- 

 trical connections which present another problem. 

 To keep the array diameter at a minimum and still 

 connect the multitude of leads, each individual 

 connection must occupy little more space than 

 that required for a single lead. Connector 



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