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(11) EP 0 169 631 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
03.06.1987 Bulletin 1987/23

(43) Date of publication A2:
29.01.1986 Bulletin 1986/05

(21) Application number: 85303197

(22) Date of filing: 03.05.1985
(84) Designated Contracting States:
CH DE FR GB IT LI SE

(30) Priority: 27.07.1984 CA 459922

(71) Applicant: NORTHERN TELECOM LIMITED
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(72) Inventors:
  • Garner, John Nicholas
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  • McGettigan, Philip Anthony
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(54) Manufacture of telecommunications cable core units


(57) Changing relative positions of conductor pairs (10) along a telecommunications cable core (56) by passing the pairs as they approach a core unit forming means (34), in an array through a flow of air which causes relative sideways movement of the pairs and continual change in their positions. The array may be arcuate, conveniently circular, and the airflow moves outwardly from within the array. Alternatively, the array is primarily planar with the airflow moving from one side of the array.






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