General Cable

About: General Cable is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Direct-buried cable & Electrical conductor. The organization has 267 authors who have published 311 publications receiving 3950 citations.

Ground level terminal housing

Abstract: A telephone cable terminal housing adapted to lie flat on the level ground, without excavation. A ground plate has a wide flat ground engaging border and a raised central mounting platform joined by an upstanding wall forming an outward-facing peripheral shoulder. A bell jar cover fits over the platform with its continuous side wall close about and overlapping the peripheral shoulder to enclose equipment mounted on the platform. The platform has a cable entrance opening and forms a mounting base for cable terminal apparatus. This includes terminal strips each having a support bar and resiliently bendable integral legs with T-heads that snap into T-slots in the platform or into similar Tslots in the ends of previously mounted terminal strips. For cable-to-cable splicing, corresponding bundles of wires from the cables are brought together across the terminal strips in one or more tiers and the corresponding wires spliced together. Other wires connect selected cable wires to terminal blocks for service connection, to loading coils, etc. The terminal housing provides all the advantages of an above-ground terminal housing with improved access and as good or better production of the equipment therein, it avoids the difficulties and hazards of underground housings while its ground-level mounting and low silhouette minimizes its visual and physical obstruction of the ground area on which it is mounted.

Electron microscope observations of phase separation near spinodal boundary in a sodium borosilicate glass

Abstract: Time evolution of volume fraction of the minor phase is studied in an alumina-doped sodium borosilicate glass inside the immiscible region. It is shown that such a study permits a distinction between the two mechanisms of phase separation; namely spinodal decomposition and nucleation and growth. For spinodal decomposition, the volume fraction decreases initially, whereas for nucleation and growth, it increases with heat-treatment time.

Reliable sheath bonding connector and method of making

Abstract: The subject invention relates to a new connector assembly design for making a low resistance, stable electrical connection to a plastic coated aluminum shield adhering to and underlying polyethylene jacket of telephone cables. When the connector in accordance with the invention is applied across the composite sheath, it eliminates the creep strain exhibited by the polyethylene jacket and aluminum shield and results in a stable low resistance electrical connection, which is essential for noise-free operation of the cable and good lightning protection of enclosed telephone circuits.