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19-Wire Unilay Cable of Strand Quality - 1984
19-Wire Unilay Cable of Strand Quality - 1984
19-Wire Unilay Cable of Strand Quality - 1984
19-wire unilay---- - - - -
cable O f 2.1. 0 8 VA C Burlon, CEng, MIEE,
Norlhamplon Machinery Co Lid,
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So m e years aga whilst developing 19-wire unil ay secto r s haped ca ble. with the
co-operation of a large UK cab le manufacturer, we observed t~at atte~ pt s to sec_tor
shap e the hex3go nally shaped 19 w ires o n OUf large d ouble tWist bunchtng/strandlng
ma chin e proved t o be almost impo ssibl e.
An exa min atio n of th e geometry of the strand Icd us to a realisation of the problem.
Wh at we were attempting to do was to Secto r s hape a rotatl ng spira l of wlres whose
sectlon Is as Illustrated In Figure 1.