Abstract: A conductor strand 12 for an electric cable 10 is disclosed. The conductor strand includes a solid first wire 16 having a longitudinal axis A.sub.1, an inner layer of six solid wires 20 twisted helically about the first wire and an outer layer 24 formed of two different diameter wires. The outer layer includes six third wires 26 spaced circumferentially one from the other leaving a gap G therebetween. Disposed in each gap is a fourth wire 28 having a diameter which lies in a range of sixty-eight percent to seventy-eight percent of the diameter of the third wire. A method for making the cable is disclosed which includes the steps of helically twisting the inner layer about the first wire with a lay greater than the lay of the finished conductor, twisting the outer layer of wires about the inner layer of wire with that greater lay, and twisting the outer and inner wires about the first wire to reduce the lay to the lay of the finished conductor strand.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compound cable, such as an aluminum cable, an aluminum alloy cable, aluminum cable steel reinforced or an aluminum alloy cable steel reinforced with reduced audible noise for use in a high voltage transmission line.The surface of each of the aluminum wires to constitute the outermost layer of the cable is treated in water or aqueous vapor of more than 90.degree. C. so as to form a hydrophilic hydrated film on said surface, or more than 3 grooves are provided on the outer periphery of each of the aluminum wires in excess of 30% of such wires to constitute the outermost layer of the cable, a hydrated film being caused to form on the surface including the grooves thereof, so that the raindrops adhering to the surface may readily disappear due to the improved hydrophilic property and draining property of the surface of the cable thereby preventing the development of the corona discharge.

Abstract: According to the method, a strip of nonconductive, fibrous material having a capillary effect with respect to water is fixed in close contact with each conductor of the transmission line. The capillary effect of the fibrous material ensures the formation of thin filaments of water on the surface of the conductor when the same is wet. These filaments of water promote the generation of a corona effect in the form of permanent discharges resulting in a luminescent phenomena and inhibit the occurrence of pulsatory discharges. A conductor for aerial, high voltage, electric power transmission line which allows the above method to be carried out, is also disclosed.

Abstract: A transmission conductor comprises an inner conductor or conductors substantially shaped in a cylindrical form, and an outer conductor layer covering the inner conductor or conductors, the outer conductor layer being annular in section, having an even outer surface and being split in a plane or planes radially extending on the center of the transmission conductor into a plurality of split conductor elements. Outer corners of the two adjacent split conductor elements at every predetermined number of junctions between the plurality of split conductor elements are formed in rounded corners, i.e. arcuate in section, with a radius r (m) of curvature. These plurality of split conductor elements disposed annularly on the outer surface of the inner conductor or conductors are stranded in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The coaxial sub-marine telephone cable employs a central conductor which is formed by a compound twisted core of high tensile steel wires and of aluminum-based wires which are encased in a longitudinally welded copper tube that is applied tightly around the twisted core. The aluminum-based wire has high tensile strength, high breaking elongation and good electrical conductivity. The crushing of the aluminum based wires by the steel wires under the effect of radial pressures exerting on the core through sizing dyes while being manufactured is minimized and avoided by arranging the steel wires in contact with each other under radial compression so that they interact as an arch or vault.

Abstract: A multiwire conductor in which a layer of wires surrounds a center wire. The center wire has a predesigned structure which produces many small, negligible kinks instead of few intolerable ones, which may otherwise occur as the result of temperature changes or stress variations.

Abstract: A hose for cleaners comprising a bellows-shaped hose main body and two reinforcing synthetic resin elements arranged side by side axially of the hose and helically wound on and attached to the inner surface of the hose main body. Each of the reinforcing helical elements has embedded therein a conductor comprising a hard steel wire and a plurality of thin copper wires provided on the outer periphery of the hard steel wire and extending longitudinally thereof.

Abstract: An inner conductor for a gas filled high voltage cable is constructed from plural elements arranged on a carrier tube in one or several layers. The conductive elements are either stranded around the carrier while remaining spaced from each other so that they can deform azimuthally in a wave-like pattern whenever their temperature increases, or alternatively, the conductor elements remain unstranded and are already contoured in a wave-like pattern whose amplitude excursion increases with temperature. In either case, length extensions of the elements are taken up by the wave pattern and do not cause overall length extensions of the conductor assembly as a whole.

Abstract: A compressed, multi-layered, concentric layer stranded cable electrical conductor with each succeeding overlying layer of strands helically wound in an alternately opposite direction, comprising the product of sequentially circumferentially compressing each succeeding overlying layer of cross lay strands to a regressively reduced state of consolidation.

Abstract: A gas feeder pipe assembly includes a central duct capable of functioning as a gas feeder pipe and a plurality of pairs of electrical conductors in a unitary structure. The gas feeder pipe is located at the center of the structure, and the conductors surround the pipe in an oscillating lay. The pipe and the conductors are wrapped in a polyester film and enclosed in a coated aluminum sheath. A polyethylene jacket bonded to the aluminum sheath provides the outermost protection for the assembly.

Abstract: Conductive wire coated with a thin magnetic film which is encircled by an insulating sheath. In various applications a plurality of said wires are wound together to provide a conductor having a low leakage due to eddy currents and dielectric leakage at certain frequencies.

Abstract: This invention is a cable core made of two layers of helically wound strips of metal with one layer having a right hand lay and the other layer having a left hand lay. The angle of lay is such that the diameter of the core changes at a faster rate than the length of the strips change with differences in temperature. This increase in the change of the core diameter makes the change correspond more closely to that of a plastic jacket or insulation that surround the core and thus avoids excessive stresses in the insulation as it cools and resulting cracking of the insulation in the case of substantial changes in temperature. The angle of lay of one layer is different from that of the other layer so as to set up restraint conditions that provide stability for the composite construction.

Abstract: An electrical conductor particularly suitable for resistance welding equipment comprises an even number and at least four bunches of helically wound electrically conductive strands arranged in side-by-side contacting relation with a hollow central passage through the conductor and wherein the strands of each bunch are twisted in the opposite direction to the strands of the two bunches in contact therewith so as to provide zero electrical wear points in the cross section of the conductor. In one embodiment there are six bunches of strands surrounded by a further twelve bunches of helically wound strands arranged in side-by-side contacting relation with the strands of each outer bunch twisted in the opposite direction to the strands of the two outer bunches in contact therewith.

Abstract: A cable includes a tubular multi-layer electric conductor, electric insulation surrounding the electric conductor, and an outer cable jacket surrounding the electric insulation. An inner tubular member of titanium or alloyed stainless steel is accommodated in the electric conductor and defines a channel for a cooling medium such as water. At least one of the layers constituting the electric conductor is a circumferentially complete tubular element surrounding or surrounded by a layer comprising a plurality of juxtaposed elongated electric conductor elements. In the region of contact of the electric conductor with the inner tubular member, there is provided at least one groove extending longitudinally of the cable for conducting the cooling medium which escapes from the cooling channel in case of damage to the inner tubular member to the ends of the cable so as to indicate the occurrence of such damage.

Abstract: A support body comprising several support elements lined up one behind the other is disclosed. More particularly, each support element includes a structure which is formed by support rings connected together by bridge members and which is provided at one end with extensions which can engage or be pushed into the end or last support ring of a preceding support element. Moreover, each support element is provided with additional means for limiting the degree of sliding-apart of the element from the element to which it is connected. The present support body has the advantage that its support elements as well as the connections between such elements are sufficiently mechanically stable so that no special guides for the support elements are necessary when the former are being wrapped.

Abstract: A cable for transmitting high electric energies comprises an inner tubular member which is provided with a channel for conducting a cooling medium, cable jacket surrounding the tubular member with spacing, and insulation provided intermediate said tubular member and cable jacket. The tubular member is circumferentially complete so that no cooling medium can escape into the insulation and destroy the insulating properties thereof. The tubular member may itself serve as an electric conductor, or it may be surrounded by an electric conductor.

Abstract: A support body for the conductors of a low-temperature cable including a plurality of carrier elements in tandem which, along with connecting parts arranged therebetween, form a common molding, in which the outer surfaces of the carrier elements contain notches or slots for conducting the cooling medium in the axial direction to permit heat generated at the conductor to be easily removed to permit a construction which requires no special measures for supporting the carrier elements when the support bodies are wrapped in cabling machines.