Abstract: In the laying-up of the cores of a multiple core cable in which the cores travel from a plurality of auxiliary platforms rotatably mounted on a main, rotatable platform to a laying-up member, the platforms are rotatable by separate motor drives, one for each platform, and the cores operate position sensors intermediate the auxiliary platforms and the laying-up member so as to speed up or slow down the motor drives for the auxiliary platforms dependent upon the positions of the cores as they pass from the auxiliary platforms to the laying-up member thereby eliminating residual torsion in the cores of the cable.

Abstract: A thread guide for drawing threads (3',4') overhead from two yarn bobbins (3,4) disposed coaxially one above the other comprising separate thread guide flyer arrangements (5,12) mounted by means of respective bearing bushes (6,13) provided for each yarn bobbin. The thread guide flyer arrangement (5) provided for the lower yarn bobbin (3) is mounted between the two yarn bobbins. The second thread guide flyer arrangement (12), which can be associated with the upper yarn bobbin, is also mounted between the two yarn bobbins such that the two thread guide flyer arrangements keep one another under control for the purpose of rendering their circumferential speeds uniform.

Abstract: An electromagnetic disc type tension control in which the yarn guiding post is slotted off-center between the discs so that the yarn being tensioned is received between the discs and exerts a torsional force on the tension discs to cause the tension discs to rotate in order to enhance the dissipation and self-cleaning of the yarn finish accummulated therebetween.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to produce a continuous filament textured yarn with unusually low crimp contractions and intermittent crimp along its length. This is accomplished by the use of an electromagnetic tension device to control the draw in the yarn being supplied to a false twist device driven at a speed to provide low false twist in the yarn being twisted. The apparatus includes a control between the electromagnetic tension control and the yarn supply package to prevent the yarn coming off the package from rotating in a full balloon path and consequently prevent entanglement of the yarn in the yarn guides to a yarn consuming machine.

Abstract: An apparatus for stranding wire, cables, ropes or the like, has one or more rotatable supports and a plurality of receptacles are non-rotatably mounted on each of the supports. A bundle of wound wire which is to be stranded is contained in each one of the receptacles which are positioned so that the axis of each bundle of wire is substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the support. The wires from each of the bundles in a receptacle are then guided to a stranding point.

Abstract: An improved wire or fiber strand payoff neutralizer adapted for multi-position application is described, which permits numerous individual strands of wire or fiber that will be formed into a cable to be payed out linearly and uniformly under controlled and regulated tension to the other components of a cabling machine. The present invention utilizes a split shaft, the reel containing the wire or fiber strand being mounted on an arbor portion of the split shaft, and a flyer being mounted on the driven portion of the rotor shaft. The wire or fiber strands then travel from the product supply reel to the flyer and then back to the hollow core of the rotor shaft and thence to the other components of the cabling system. The flyer and the rotor shaft rotate at the same speed as the other components of the cabling system, as well as in the same direction.

Abstract: A continuous process of drawing a plurality of strands from a supply and neuturalizing the twist as taken from supply reels, twisting the various strands into a cable and then passing the cable over capstans and an accumulator to maintain proper tension in the cable and then on to a closer where the cable is packaged, all units being driven from a common shaft in time with each other and in a one-to-one relationship with the elimination of back twist in individual strands and the maintenance of uniform tension on the individual strands and a minimum tension on the cable.

Abstract: Yarns or filaments from producers packages, having little or no twist therein and mounted upon two-for-one spindle units, are uptwisted, directed to a ply twisting unit where the twisted filaments are plied and downtwisted onto a takeup bobbin of a spindle unit. A selected percentage of the required twist is inserted as the plied, cabled filaments are wound upon the takeup bobbin and the remainder of the required twist inserted as the filaments are unwound from the takeup bobbin and directed to a winder unit. Alternatively, the rate of twist applied to the plied filaments may be increased by driving the traveler ring, thus increasing the life or the speed of the traveler which directs plied filaments to the driven takeup bobbin. Occasionally, when two-for-one spindle units are applying extremely high twist, which slows down the delivery of twisted plied filaments, the driven downtwist takeup spindle unit may employ a super high speed stationary traveler ring.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for up-twisting directly a spinning package having the shape of the cake. According to the invention, the device comprises a vertical spindle driven in rotation at constant or variable speed. Centering and positioning means are provided for the cake on the spindle, said means preferably comprising two cones placed in opposition and fitted at each extremity of the cake. The cones are characterized by the lower cone being secured to the spindle axle and the package being positioned between the two cones by means of a locking element which connects the lower cone to the upper cone. Preferably, the upper cone is associated with a cap flyer which projects beyond the outer edge of the package. The invention applies itself particularly well to up-twisting.

Abstract: A yarn-twisting apparatus comprises a spindle receiving the supply spool or bobbin, a rotating can or sleeve surrounding the spool and the bobbin, a yarn takeup arrangement for drawing the yarn from the upper end of the can, and a housing surrounding the can. According to the invention, the stationary housing and the upper and lower ends of the spindle are provided with closures which reach close to the spindle at the bottom and form an opening traversed by the yarn at the top. Means is provided for enabling the upper closure to be removed or displaced for ready access to the interior of the housing. The system reduces the power consumption required for twisting the yarn.

Abstract: A cabling technique for assembling an optical communication cable having a helically twisted stacked array of optical fiber ribbons and an extruded cable jacket to which helically stranded longitudinal strength members are tightly coupled.

Abstract: Apparatus for laying-up fine filaments, i.e. filaments which may be readily broken by bending, tension or torsion stresses, which comprises a rotatable platform carrying a plurality of filament bobbins, each bobbin being supported on the platform so that it can rotate about its own axis and about an axis perpendicular thereto, a drive system for rotating the bobbins about the latter axis as the platform is rotated to produce one rotation of each bobbin about the latter axis with each revolution of the platform, braking means for the bobbins which varies the braking force in accordance with radius of a filament winding on a bobbin, tubular guides extending between each bobbin and the laying-up point and supporting discs intermediate the bobbins and the laying-up point which are rotatable with the platform, the tubular guides being rotatably supported on the discs.

Abstract: A twisted pair of wires is produced by drawing two insulated wires from two supply reels while rotating one wire supply reel about the other. A capstan and tachometer measure the linear rate at which the twisted pair is being drawn. The output of the tachometer is controllably and variably divided and used to control a power inverter that drives a motor which rotates the one wire supply reel about the other. The variable ratio between the linear wire movement and the rotary or twisting movement is controlled by a random generator producing a series of numbers representing length per twist of the twisted pair, between fixed limits.

Abstract: A system for twining and cabling pairs of elongate elements such as wire is disclosed wherein pairs of filaments are first twined by twining apparatus and then passed to a cabling device. The twining apparatus includes rearward and forward supply reels from which elongate filaments are drawn off over payoff arms under constant tension, the rear filaments being passed around the forward supply reels by flyer assemblies which twine the rear filaments about the forward filaments whereafter the twined pairs of filaments are passed to the cabling device.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing cables by stranding individual wires, comprising: a pay-out apparatus having four pay-out reels and fixed supports therefor; a stranding apparatus situated after the pay-out apparatus and comprising a forming die receiving the individual wires; a take-up apparatus having a take-up reel, a support for the take-up reel, and a cable-puller for pulling the cable through the die at a predetermined speed; and further comprising wire-tensioning devices disposed between each of the pay-out reel supports and the die, each of the wire-tensioning devices comprising a guide member for one of the wires, disposed at a fixed location and coaxial with a respective one of the reels, a zone situated before the guide member for non-guided passage of a portion of the wire from the reel to the guide member, a motor for driving each of the pay-out reels at a variable speed of rotation, the speed being sufficient to cause the portion of wire to assume the form of a loop under the effect of centrifugal fo

Abstract: A horizontally elongated machine for twisting a plurality of different yarns has at least one longitudinally extending drive shaft. A plurality of horizontally extending and vertically spaced rows of twisters is provided on each side of the machine with each twister being rotatable about a respective axis perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the machine. The twisters are driven in groups of two or four by a common flat belt spanned over the respective whorls of the twisters and over a single drive pulley on the drive shaft. A takeup device for each of the twisters is provided directly above the twister.

Abstract: A wire cabler is described in which wire is deployed from rotating spools supported on an oppositely rotating frame in a manner which causes the wire to pass in engagement with the circumferential edges of the spools. The relative rotation of the spools and the rotating frame is such that the twist imparted to the wire is substantially equal but in opposite directions for full and nearly empty spools.