Cable-making harness

• US 3,258,039 A
• Filed: 05/03/1963
• Issued: 06/28/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: W H Brady Company
• Original Assignee: Harry A. Ewalt
• Inventors: Ewalt, Harry A.
• Application Number:
  US04/277,887
• Time in Patent Office: 1,152 Days
• US Class Current: 140/71.00R
• CPC Class Codes: H01B 13/01227 using a layout board
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53243 Multiple, independent conductors

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION, A CABLE-MAKING HARNESS INCLUDING A LAYOUT BOARD HAVING ON ONE FLAT SURFACE THEREOF A CABLE PATTERN INDICATING THE PATH OF EACH OF THE STRANDS OF WIRE USED IN MAKING UP THE CABLE, (A) MEANS REMOVABLY MOUNTED ON SAID BOARD AT POSITIONS INDICATED BY THE PATTERN THEREON HAVING AN OPEN BIFURCATION FOR FRICTIONALLY RECEIVING AND HOLDING THE FREE ENDS OF EACH STRAND OF WIRE ON SAID BOARD IN AN ELEVATED PLANE WITH RESPECT TO THE ONE FLAT SURFACE THEREOF, (B) INTERMEDIATE POSTS HAVING A VERTICALLY EXTENDING ARCUATED SECTOR SURFACE ABOUT WHICH SELECTED STRANDS OF WIRE ARE PASSED TO CHANGE THE DIRECTIONAL PATH THEREOF TO CORRESPOND TO PATTERN CHANGES AS INDICATED ON SAID LAYOUT BOARD, (C) CABLE HOLDING MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID BOARD AND HAVING A SPLIT NORMALLY CLOSED MOUTH THROUGH WHICH THE STRANDS OF WIRE MAY BE FORCIBLY PASSED FOR RELEASABLY HOLDING TOGETHER ALL OF THE STRANDS OF WIRE THAT LIE IN A COMMON PATH OVER THE PATT ERN ON SAID LAYOUT BOARD, AND