GB424364A - Improvements in and relating to sleeves for electric cable ends - Google Patents

Abstract

424,364. Cable end-sleeves. BRITISH THOMSON - HOUSTON CO., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London.-(Assignees of Allgemeine Elektricitõts-Ges. ; 2, Friedrich Karl- Ufer, Berlin) Nov. 22, 1933, No. 32626. Convention date, Nov. 23, 1932. [Class 36] An end-sleeve for an impregnated cable 20 comprises a casing 4 secured to the cable sheath and having apertures in its end-plate 7 through which the insulated cores 1 of the cable individually pass, each core being surrounded at its end by a flexible, insulating and oil-resisting tube 2 which is sealed at one end to the terminal member 11 of the core. The tube 2 is provided with a collar 5 which is compressed between the endplate 7 and a clamping disc 9 to form an oil-tight joint between the tube and the casing. In a modified construction the apertures in the end-plate 7 are in the form of glands in which the collars 5 are compressed by gland nuts. The tubes 2 may be of rubber which is coated at all points liable to come into contact with the impregnating compound with film 3 of oil-resisting material, such as the material known under the Registered Trade Mark " Plexigum." The collar 5 may consist of a rubber ring rolled up in a rubber tube 6 which impermeably connected to the tube 2 by adhesive or vulcanization, or the collar may be formed by rolling up the end of the tube 6, or the tube 2 may be formed with an integral collar.