Abstract: An apparatus for treating air core cables such as air core plastic insulated telephone cables, which includes a treatment tank provided with air and liquid application piping; an air application saddle or fitting and at least one liquid application saddle or fitting applied to the telphone cable in spaced relationship, with air and liquid application connections extending from the saddles; and a cable block sealing a segment of the air core cable to be treated. Air and liquid are applied in sequence to the plastic insulated cable pairs located in the cable, in order to clear water and other fluids from the cable and restore electrical transmission through the cable pairs.

Abstract: A magnet wire enamel based on polyamide resins is disclosed in which the molecular weight of the polyamide resin is reduced through an equilibration reaction with a solvolytic agent and a titanate catalyst. Also disclosed is a method of applying said enamel to a magnet wire substrate and the resulting enameled magnet wire.

Abstract: A method for covering electrical conducting means is disclosed. In this method an ethylene polymer composition comprising a linear ethylene polymer having a density of at least 0.94 and a crosslinking effective amount of an acetylenic diperoxide compound having a one hour half-life decomposition temperature of more than 135.degree. C. is utilized to cover the electrical conducting means.

Abstract: A method for restoring stranded conductor, polyolefin insulated electrical distribution cable which comprises supplying the interstices of the conductor of said cable with aromatic radical containing silane such as phenyltrimethoxysilane or phenylmethyldimethoxysilane, and mixtures, and partial hydrolyzates thereof.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a felt applicator for applying a solution of lubricant to magnet wire, the applicator having at least one surface sealed to prevent the premature evaporation of the lubricant solvent during its passage through the applicator from the reservoir to the wire, resulting in more uniform distribution and quantity of the lubricant about the substrate.

Abstract: A method of insulating electrical conductors wherein a tape of porous mica paper and of glass felt or cloth or plastic material film is wound round the conductors, wherein the tape is impregnated with a varnish comprising a polymerizable liquid resin, and wherein the impregnated tape is polymerized by heat treatment, the method including the improvement whereby an adhesive powder is initially added to the tape to provide adhesion between the porous mica paper and the glass felt or cloth or the plastic material film, said adhesive powder comprising a polymer having chains of oxazolidone groups containing groups with epoxy terminations, and whereby the polymerizable liquid resin of the varnish essentially contains isocyanate groups which are transformed into isocyanurate groups during polymerization.

Abstract: Zinc oxide is used in poly(arylene sulfide compositions to improve encapsulation properties and to inhibit color shift. The invention includes electronic components encapsulated with poly(arylene sulfide) compositions containing zinc oxide.

Abstract: A polyether-based photopolymer, which can be produced inexpensively and without costly purification operations comprises an addition product of an olefin-unsaturated monoisocyanate and a polyether having at least one hydroxyl group. The photopolymer is suitable for use in circuit and transmission line applications as a protective and insulating layer.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for coating or insulation grafting a metallic cationic wire wherein the wire is placed in water in the presence of salts of carboxylate or other appropriate polymers having anionic groups together with a cationic substance, such as lithium. A dc current is then introduced to establish the wire as an anode. By electrolysis action there is established a hydrophobic coating having a polymer-anionic-to-metal-cationic bond with the metal. The procedure of introducing salts of appropriate anionic polymers and cationic substances where there is an insulation break and short between the wires, providing moisture or standing water and a small dc current has been found useful in repairing such breaks by the formation of an electrochemical coating on the exposed anode wire.

Abstract: A plasticized polyurethane gel system comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate compound and a polyol in the presence of a ricinoleate plasticizer compound having a total solubility parameter of between about 8.3 and 8.9 or between about 9.1 and 9.7. Said polyurethane systems are cured, cross-linked, nonspewing, grease compatible, and reenterable. This extended polyurethane is further characterized as having superior insulating properties so that it can be used of repairing, encapsulating or reclaiming electrical or telecommunication cables as well as for hard volume encapsulants or general elastomer use.

Abstract: A plasticized polyurethane gel system comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate compound and a polyol in the presence of an ester plasticizer compound having a total solubility parameter of between about 8.3 and 8.9 or between about 9.1 and 9.7. Said polyurethane systems are cured, cross-linked, non-spewing, grease compatible, and reenterable. This extended polyurethane is further characterized as having superior insulating properties so that it can be used of repairing, encapsulating or reclaiming electrical or telecommunication cables as well as for hard volume encapsulants or general elastomer use.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for providing a bubble-free coating on a fibre, more particularly on an optical fibre. A fibre to be coated is fed into a pressure chamber (61) via an inlet duct (56) with a restricted inlet opening (57) and leaves the pressure chamber (61) through an outlet opening (41) of a nozzle (40). Liquid coating material is supplied to the pressure chamber (61) at such a pressure that the coating material rises in the inlet duct (56) up to a certain level to form a convex meniscus (D). By flushing the surroundings of the inlet opening (57) with a gas having a kinematic viscosity which is lower than that of air, the drawing speed at which the applied coating is still bubble-free can be considerably increased.

Abstract: A crosslinking process wherein at a temperature of about 10.degree. to 160.degree. C., under a pressure of about 1 to 300 bars and for at least about 0.5 hour, a polymer, containing from about 42 to 99% by weight of units derived from ethylene and, where appropriate, also from an .alpha.-olefin, from about 1 to 8% by weight of units derived from maleic anhydride and from 0 to about 50% by weight of units derived from at least one additional monomer selected from an ester of an unsaturated carboxylic acid with an alcohol containing from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, is reacted with at least one polyepoxide compound, preferably present in an amount of from about 1 to 10 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the polymer, in the presence of at least one catalyst suitable for reacting the anhydride functions with the epoxide functions. The catalyst is preferably present in an amount from about 0.02 to 2 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the polymer.

Abstract: A magnet wire enamel having improved runnability and insulating properties is described comprising nylon containing 0.5% to 3.5% by weight tetraalkyl titanate. The nylon can be a sole coat, outermost coating, or bond coat.

Abstract: Apparatus and a method for dispensing a solution for use in a process including a flow meter and a precision valve are disclosed. A solenoid valve is incorporated within the dispensing apparatus and is electrically connected to the process for preventing flow during process interruption periods. Additional alarm means and safety interlocks are provided for controlling flow based upon operating conditions of the process.

Abstract: A magnet wire enamel having improved runnability and insulating properties is described comprising nylon containing a titanate selected from the group consisting of (RO).sub.4 Ti, dimers, trimers, and mixtures thereof where R is an aromatic group. The nylon can be a sole coat, outermost coating, or bond coat.

Abstract: A grease compatible cyclic olefin extended polyurethane comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate terminated polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of a cyclic olefin extender and, a plasticizer having a total solubility parameter of between about 8.3 and 8.9 or about 9.1 and 9.7. Certain extended polyurethanes are characterized as being reenterable, such that they can be used for repairing, encapsulation or reclaiming electrical or telephone cables. Alternate formulations can be used as hard volume encapsulants for general elastomer use.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for uniformly cladding a metal wire with a coating of a second metal is provided. The metal wire to be coated is preheated in a non-oxidizing atmosphere to a temperature slightly less than the melting point of the metal coating. The metal coating is present as a molten metal in an atomization chamber. A source of preheated, pressurized, non-oxidizing gas is utilized to inject such gas into spray nozzles. Each spray nozzle also receives molten metal that is drawn into and atomized in the nozzle. The molten metal is thusly sprayed onto the metal wire moving through the atomization chamber.

Abstract: The present invention concerns superconductor lengths constituted by superconducting filaments based on a ternary chalcogenide of molybdenum (PbMo.sub.6 S.sub.8) assembled within a stabilizing matrix based on copper. The invention provides a method of fabricating superconducting filaments consisting of mixing a powder of a ternary chalcogenide of molybdenum with a metal powder of smaller granulometry and chosen from the components of the chalcogenide in question, or from the group of metals consisting of aluminum, silver, gallium, rhenium, and titanium, in sheathing the mixture of powders obtained by means of a metal wall constituted from one of a group of metals formed by molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, titanium and vanadium, and in subjecting the superconducting lengths obtained after drawing and cold working using conventional wire drawing techniques to a final heat treatment consisting of heating to a temperature of about 800.degree. C. for at least twenty hours.

Abstract: The purpose of the invention is to manufacture varnish-bonded thread-covered circular-section and profile-section wires and braided conductors in a manner which is particularly cheap and which involves particularly little risk of contaminating the environment.Suitable thread-covered wires and braided conductors are obtained by impregnation, in one operation, with partially crystalline or amorphous thermoplastic polycondensates.

Abstract: Wire which has been coated with a polymeric material is useful in a wide variety of applications. One such application is as a winding for electrical equipment such as motors, transformers, magnetic coils, relays and the like. Generally, coated wires of this type have been prepared by coating the wire with multiple layers of a solution of the coating material. It has been determined that metal wires can be satisfactorily coated with a specific type of thermoplastic composition in a single layer without using solvents. This process utilizes a tubing type cross-head die with the thermoplastic composition comprising a mixture of 80% to 99% by weight polyethylene terephthalate and from 1% to 20% by weight of polyethylene, polypropylene, or a mixture thereof.

Abstract: In providing a dried insulation layer upon conductor, a covering fluid layer is initially provided by a process and apparatus in which the layer is formed from composite material comprising magnetically permeable particles homogeneously mixed with a fluid carrier. The fluid layer is formed by passing the conductor through a reservoir of the material and then vertically through a die orifice. The reservoir of fluid applies pressure at the die orifice and this pressure is adjustable to vary the rate at which the material passes through the orifice and thus varies the diameter. This pressure is controllable by adjusting the height of the reservoir above a die orifice or by adjusting gas pressure acting downwardly upon the material. The diameter of the layer is advantageously measured after it is dried and variation in measured diameter from that desired effects a change in pressure to alter the diameter towards that desired. The diameter of the layer may, however, be measured with the layer in fluid form.

Abstract: An apparatus and method is detailed for the application of non-conductive material, generally of a powder or fine fiber form from bulk storage onto a conductive filament or plurality of filaments. A series of vibrating troughs are used to store, convey, unpack and load particulate material at a controllable rate into a gas stream traversing a converging-diverging nozzle. High aerodynamic shear in the nozzle reduces the material's size. Divergent nozzle exit geometry slows the material to speeds where electrostatic forces can predominate, as the material is injected upwardly into a chamber fitted with a cascade of conical forms. Each cone is electrified about its circumference in one or more locations, with respect to a centrally located upward moving filament. Conventional electrostatic charging and deposition on the filament is augmented by the convergent geometry of the cones. Excess material falls on the outside of the cones, and eventually downward to a recovery area.

Abstract: Melt-fusible polyimides based on pyromellitic dianhydride and at least one defined aromatic diamine are useful in making low-void composites and thermoplastic tapes, which can be fabricated into articles such as, for example, aircraft and autobody panels, printed circuit boards, etc. Some of these polyimides are melt-processible and can be fabricated by conventional procedures such as extrusion and injection molding.

Abstract: Making an insulated electrical conductor having an insulation layer formed from dielectric carrier with magnetically permeable particles dispersed therein in which the conductor bearing the layer is passed through a magnetic field to cause an increase in magnetization of magnetic domains of the particles towards a single direction.

Abstract: A magnet wire enamel having improved runnability and insulating properties is described comprising nylon containing 0.25% to 20% by weight titanium chelate. The nylon can be a sole coat, outermost coating, or bond coat.

Abstract: A cyclic olefin extended polyurethane system comprising the reaction product of an isocyanate terminated polyisocyanate with a polyol in the presence of a cyclic olefin extender and, optionally, a liquid ester or other type of extender. Said polyurethane systems are cured, crosslinked, non-spewing, grease compatible, and reenterable. This extended polyurethane is further characterized as having superior insulating properties so that it can be used for repairing, encapsulation or reclaiming electrical or telephone cables as well as hard volume encapsulants for general elastomer use. The extended polyurethane is comprised of a defined polyurethane, novel extender combinations, and optionally, a coupling agent.

Abstract: Tracking is reduced in insulators comprising one or more polymers and an anti-tracking filler system comprising (a) a hydrate of alumina having a specific surface area of at least 2 m.sup.2 /g measured by the BET method, and (b) a compound selected from the group consisting of oxides, mixed oxides and mixtures of oxides wherein said compound contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of transition series elements, lanthanide series elements and nontransuranic actinide series elements.

Abstract: A novel apparatus for manufacturing magnet wire in a continuous process by which coatings of a flowable resin material may be applied concentrically to a moving elongated filament in thickness of about 16 mils or less. The filament can be a bare copper or aluminum conductor having round or rectangular configuration or an insulated conductor upon which a top or an intermediate coat of material is desirably applied. Coatings of one-half mil and one mil also can be applied by the method of the invention. By the apparatus of the invention, magnet wire can be manufactured by continuously drawing the wire to size, annealing the wire, if necessary, insulating the wire with one or more coats of flowable resin material, curing the resin material, if necessary, hardening the resin material, and spooling the wire for shipment, without interruption at speeds limited only by the filament pay-off and take-up devices used.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for manufacturing a cable having a composite shield and armor sheath design is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of corrugating a laminated tape formed by bonding a plastic coated aluminum tape to a wider steel tape with one edge of the aluminum tape registering with one edge of the steel tape, forming the corrugated laminated tape around a cable core with the uncovered portion of the steel tape overlapping the registering edges of the laminated tape, and extruding an outer jacket of polyethylene over the corrugated laminated tape.

Abstract: In a method of insulating an electrical conductor, the conductor passes upwardly through a coating fluid and a die means which is carried in a vertical position by a supporting fluid force. This force is provided by the supporting force of the fluid or a magnetic force which holds the die in suspension. Freedom for horizontal movement of the die is provided to enable it to move in a manner corresponding to any lateral movement of the conductor, this die movement being controlled by hydrodynamic forces between conductor and die to maintain the concentricity of a fluid layer formed on the conductor.

Abstract: Method of monitoring net magnetic bipolar orientation of magnetically permeable particles in a dry dielectric carrier layer around an electrical conductor by passing the layer covered conductor through a magnetic field to cause particle orientation to affect the magnetic flux strength in the field. Electromotive force or current induced in a sensing conductor placed in the field is affected by the flux strength of the field. Sensing any change in this induced property indicates a change in the net magnetic bipolar orientation.

Abstract: Monitoring of the quantity of magnetically permeable particles in a dry dielectric carrier layer surrounding a conductor by passing the conductor with its surrounding layer through a magnetic field created by a magnet to cause magnetic attraction between the particles and the magnet. The degree of this attraction is dependent partly upon the quantity of particles lying in the field and the degree of movement towards each other of the conductor and magnet is monitored while resisting this movement, to give an indication of the particle quantity. A method of controlling the quantity of particles is also described and which uses the monitored movement to produce signals by which the input of particles or carrier into a fluid mixture is adjusted.

Abstract: A method of making a multiconductor cable assembly is disclosed wherein at least a portion of the cable assembly is comprised of multiple insulation-sheathed conductors arranged side-by-side in contiguous relation so that the insulation sheaths of adjacent conductors have a substantial interfacing contact area. First and second beads of material integral with the adjacent conductor sheaths and located adjacent each side of the interfacing contact area hold the cable together and maintain its flat profile. The cable can also include portions having a compact profile and can have unbonded ends. The cable assembly is formed by applying a bonding agent, comprised of a filler dissolved in a solvent for the insulation sheaths, as a bead between each pair and on each side of contiguous conductor sheaths. The bonding agent beads initially intermingle with the insulating sheaths material, but do not penetrate into the interfacing area between contiguous sheaths.

Abstract: Improved enamels and insulated electrical articles produced therefrom are described. The enamels are composed of solutions of curable resin which have been modified to contain nylon polymer. This polymer facilitates application of the enamel to a metallic conductor so as to produce an especially smooth and desirable insulation coating.

Abstract: Build control means is provided by which the characteristics of a cloud of electrostatically charged particles can readily be altered, so as to produce an optimal deposit upon any of a variety of workpieces. The means described offers a high degree of flexibility of application for the apparatus in which it is employed, and is particularly adapted for use in coating electrical conductors of rectangular cross section.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for filling a cable core unit with powder in a fluidized bed in which the unit is vibrated laterally by introducing energy pulsations into the bed, the pulses being transmitted as successive waves through the powder particles to transfer the energy to the unit and set up the vibration. In preferred constructions, the pulsations are set up by a reciprocating piston means disposed beneath the upper surface of the powder. There may be two or more piston means spaced in the feed path direction for the unit or a single piston extending.

Abstract: An improved electrode and method for electroerosion machining both of traveling-wire type wherein an elongate element having a thickness of 0.05 to 0.5 mm is axially displaced to form a traveling-wire machining electrode therefrom. The traveling-wire machining electrode is juxtaposed with a workpiece across a machining gap flooded with a machining liquid issuing from a jet and a machining current from a source is passed between the electrode and the workpiece to electroerosively machine the latter. Gaseous bubbles formed by the electrical decomposition of the machining liquid tend to be adherent on the machining surface of the electrode and thus act as a thermal insulator between the electrode and the coolant machining liquid. The elongated element is formed with a rugged peripheral surface along a length thereof to facilitate the detachment of the gaseous bubbles from the machining surface of the electrode. Various ways of producing the rugged peripheral surface are described, e.g.

Abstract: An organic, high-molecular weight polyester containing substantially chain members of the formula--O--X--O--Y--wherein X is at least one member of the group consisting of ##STR1## and Y has the formula ##STR2## having an inherent viscosity of at least 1.0 dl/g, preferably at least 1.2, dl/g measured at 30.degree. C. in a solution of 0.5 g of the polyester in 100 ml of a mixture of 60% by weight of phenol and 40% by weight of 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane and whose films cast from a chlorinated organic solution have an elongation at break of at least 10%, preferably at least 20%, measured according to ASTM D-882-75 b with the proviso that if the inherent viscosity is between 1.0 dl/g and 1.5 dl/g, Y is a mixture of 70 to 30% of terephthalic acid and 30 to 70% of isophthalic acid having excellent properties for electrical insulation as well as other fields.

Abstract: A plating method comprises the steps of melting the metal and forming a bath of the molten metal, and displacing a strand to be plated longitudinally through the molten-metal bath so the strand leaves the bath at a surface thereof. Thus the molten metal of the bath sticks to the strand and forms a molten metallic layer thereon. A helicoidal, that is at least generally helical or corkscrew-shaped, magnetic field generally centered on the strand is formed and positioned to exert on the metallic layer a magnetic force generally parallel to the strand and on the conductive metallic bath a rotary force centered on the strand. The field is polarized to exert the magnetic force upward to thicken the layer on the strand and is polarized oppositely to exert the magnetic force downward to thin the layer on the strand. The rotary action on the bath serves to move any impurities floating on the bath outward away from the rising strand.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for filling multi-conductor cables, particularly a telecommunication cable with several insulated wires surrounded by a covering and a sheath, with a mixture of powders which expand with the absorption of moisture. The conductors are fed in spaced relation into the entrance of a casing having an interior, frusto-conical wall which decreases in diameter from its entrance to its exit. The exit is small in diameter compared to the entrance so that the conductors converge as they pass from the entrance to the exit. Intermediate the entrance and the exit, the conductors are subjected to the powders which are caused to follow a helicoidal course by a screw which directs them toward the exit. Due to the shape of the casing wall, the powders are forced toward the conductors.

Abstract: An organic, high-molecular weight polyester containing substantially chain members of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is at least one member selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## having an inherent viscosity of at least 1.0 dl/g, preferably at least 1.2 dl/g measured at 30.degree. C. in a solution of 0.5 g of the polyester in 100 ml of a mixture of 60% by weight of phenol and 40% by weight of 1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethane and whose films cast from a solution in a chlorinated organic solvent have an elongation at break of more than about 20%, preferably at least 40% measured according to ASTM D 882-75 b having excellent properties for electrical insulation as well as other fields.

Abstract: A polyborosiloxane composition to be used for the formation of an insulating layer on an electric conductor comprises (A) a polyborosiloxane produced by the reaction of boric acid, a boric acid derivative, or a halogenated boron with a silane compound and a silicone oil, (B) a silicone resin or a synthetic resin having a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring in the molecule, (C) an inorganic filler, and (D) a common solvent for (A) and (B). An insulated electric wire excellent in thermal resistance is obtained by applying the composition to an electric conductor and baking the applied layer of the composition.

Abstract: A coil structure for cellulose-free transformer coils characterized by a plurality of helically wound layers disposed in a zig-zag pattern with wedge-shaped resinous insulators between each layer.

Abstract: A process for insulating electrical components located in a conduit from fire comprising mixing and pouring into the conduit a composition comrising a vinyl-containing polysiloxane polymer, an extending filler which is preferably alpha quartz, a platinum catalyst and a hydrogen-containing polysiloxane. The composition is allowed to surround the electrical components in the conduit and cured at room temperature to a solid silicone elastomer. Such a process has been found imminently suitable for insulating electrical components in a nuclear plant from fire for an extended period of time so as to maintain the electrical integrity of the components.

Abstract: An unfilled polymeric composition having improved electrical treeing and water treeing properties comprising a polymeric component and effective amounts of a hydrocarboxyalkoxy silane and a fatty acid. These compositions are particularly useful as insulation for high voltage transmission and distribution cables.

Abstract: Tracking is reduced in insulators comprising one or more polymers and an anti-tracking filler system comprising (a) a hydrate of alumina having a specific surface area of at least 2 m.sup.2 /g measured by the BET method, and (b) a compound selected from the group consisting of oxides, mixed oxides and mixtures of oxides wherein said compound contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of transition series elements, lanthanide series elements and nontransuranic actinide series elements.

Abstract: A novel method for manufacturing magnet wire in a continuous process by which coatings of a flowable resin material may be applied concentrically to a moving elongated filament in thicknesses of about 16 mils or less. The filament can be a bare copper or aluminum conductor having round or rectangular configuration or an insulated conductor upon which a top or an intermediate coat of material is desirably applied. Coatings of one-half and one mil also can be applied by the method of the invention. By the method of the invention, magnet wire can be manufactured by continuously drawing the wire to size, annealing the wire, if necessary, insulating the wire with one or more coats of flowable resin material, curing the resin material, and spooling the wire for shipment, without interruption at speeds limited only by the filament pay-off and take-up devices used. The invention utilizes the flowable resin material to center the filament in a die, the size of the die controls the thickness of the coat to be applied.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for retarding electrochemical tree-type decomposition of polyolefin electrical insulation by saturating the insulation with a liquid having high resistivity and a low dielectric constant. The insulation of cables which have already been in service is dried prior to being saturated with the liquid. One embodiment of the invention provides a continuing supply of liquid to the cable after it has been buried underground.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed by which electrical conductor cable can be produced utilizing electrostatic coating means, which method and apparatus are highly convenient, uncomplicated and economical to carry out. An outstanding and unique feature of the cable produced in accordance herewith resides in the presence of a web portion of reduced cross-section connecting the individual conductors, by which manual severence of one from another is facilitated. Most desirably, the apparatus and method provide means for producing individual insulating coatings on each of the conductors, which means ideally utilizes an electrostatic cloud coating technique.