Method and device for removing a screen from a cable

Abstract

A method is disclosed for removing a screen from a cable, which screen surrounds at least one electrical or optical inner conductor (22) and which consists in particular of a braided screen (21) from a cable (19) consisting at least of the at least one conductor (22), the screen (21) and an outer insulation (20). After baring the screen (21) at least at one end or in one section of the cable by removing the outer insulation (20), a section of the screen (21) is deformed and / or unbraided, and then the deformed section of the screen (21) is cut off at least in part. The step of deforming and / or unbraiding is accomplished by lifting off the screen (21) from the at least one inner conductor (22) on at least one end of the section of the screen (21) to be removed, at least over a part of the circumference of the cable. This step is additionally comprising or being followed by pressing the parts of the screen (21), which have been lifted off onto an erection surface (28) before cutting them off, whereby preferably the parts of the screen (21) which have been lifted off are bent backwards in the direction of the yet un-deformed screen (21).

Description

technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for removing a shield from a cable according to the preamble of claim 1 and a device for carrying out this method according to the preamble of claim 8 . Background technique [0002] As is known, electrical or optical cables are provided with a plurality of wires with insulated conductors and at least one film surrounding at least part of the wires. The function of the membrane is an isolating and / or shielding membrane. During use in the field such cables are manually stripped to expose the individual conductors for further processing steps. The continuous surrounding film makes the insulation stripping process rather complicated. In addition, insulation stripping is required in the case of data cables comprising pairs of conductors surrounded by a film and / or if at least one side of the film is coated with an adhesive to ensure better adhesion to the conductors or to adhere the conductors to each other. The process...

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Problems solved by technology

Therefore, in the case of cables, especially cables with non-circular cross-sections, cleanly removing the braided shield without damaging the various cable layers underlying the braided shield is still very complicated and currently Usually implemented manually, since the techniques mentioned above are not particularly suitable for non-circular cables and the disadvantages mentioned above occur

Most known devices are very complex and require many cable specification elements, making these devices and methods inflexible

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