Patents by Inventor Benjamin C. Ellis, Jr.

Benjamin C. Ellis, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Reverse oscillated lay cable
    Patent number: 4372105
    Abstract: In the manufacture of a cable unit (30), which comprises a center portion and a plurality of layers of twisted conductor pairs, the pairs in the center portion and in each layer are oscillated in alternately opposite directions after which the unit is bound and taken up in a stationary container (62) by a system (100) which distributes the unit in a predetermined pattern of varying size convolutions. This distribution, which results in a dense package of a cable unit having a free end that facilitates testing of the unit during takeup, is accomplished while the speed at which the unit is being advanced and distributed into the varying size convolutions is maintained substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1983
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin C. Ellis, Jr.
  • Apparatus for depositing cable
    Patent number: 4342434
    Abstract: In the manufacture of a cable unit (30), which comprises a center portion and a plurality of layers of twisted conductor pairs, the pairs in the center portion and in each layer are oscillated in alternately opposite directions after which the unit is bound and taken up in a stationary container (62) by a system (100) which distributes the unit in a predetermined pattern of varying size convolutions. This distribution, which results in a dense package of a cable unit having a free end that facilitates testing of the unit during takeup, is accomplished while the speed at which the unit is being advanced and distributed into the varying size convolutions is maintained substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1982
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin C. Ellis, Jr.
  • Methods of and apparatus for making cable
    Patent number: 4266399
    Abstract: In the manufacture of a cable unit (30), which comprises a center portion and a plurality of layers of twisted conductor pairs, the pairs in the center portion and in each layer are oscillated in alternately opposite directions after which the unit is bound and taken up in a stationary container (62) by a system (100) which distributes the unit in a predetermined pattern of varying size convolutions. This distribution, which results in a dense package of a cable unit having a free end that facilitates testing of the unit during takeup, is accomplished while the speed at which the unit is being advanced and distributed into the varying size convolutions is maintained substantially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1981
    Assignee: Western Electric Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin C. Ellis, Jr.