US 12,148,551 B2
Cable with joints for the connection of cable armour non-metallic elements
Enrico Maria Consonni, Milan (IT); and Federico Cordo′, Milan (IT)
Assigned to Prysmian S.p.A., Milan (IT)
Filed by Prysmian S.p.A., Milan (IT)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/190,767.
Claims priority of application No. 102022000007280 (IT), filed on Apr. 12, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0326627 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. H01B 7/18 (2006.01); F16B 7/04 (2006.01); H01B 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01B 9/00 (2013.01) [F16B 7/0433 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable comprising:
a cable core; and
an armor comprising a plurality of consecutive sections of non-metallic tensile elements wound around the cable core, each section of the plurality of consecutive sections of non-metallic tensile elements including a first non-metallic tensile element connected to a second non-metallic tensile element by a joint, the joint comprising:
a first socket and a second socket, each of the first and second sockets comprising a flat body extending longitudinally along a longitudinal axis between a proximal end and a distal end and comprising an inner through bore between a proximal aperture at the proximal end and a distal aperture at the distal end, the first and second non-metallic tensile elements having an end portion being housed in the inner through bore of respectively the first and second socket by the proximal aperture and secured therein by a bonding material, and each inner through bore being shaped to translationally and rotationally lock the bonding material, and
an interconnecting device translationally and rotationally locked in the distal apertures of the first and the second sockets and allowing the sockets to relatively rotate exclusively around at least one rotation axis perpendicular to a plane where the socket body longitudinal axes of the first and the second sockets lie.