A connector assembly has a connector part and a cable manager part. The cable manager part can be provided with a separable lacing fixture that functions to retain the severed portions of the wires that result from the termination process, rather than allowing the severed wire portions to fall to the floor in an uncollected state. In one aspect, the cable manager part has a main body to which the separable lacing fixture is attached via a plurality of breakaway portions.

An electric pulse decomposition method for separating a composite material by an electric pulse, the composite material being obtained by bonding or joining a plurality of conductors to each other with an insulating member, the electric pulse decomposition method including a protrusion formation step for forming a protrusion in a specific site, on a side on which the composite material is arranged, of at least one of the plurality of conductors, and a separation step for separating the plurality of conductors in the composite material 1 by respectively bringing electrodes into contact with surfaces of the plurality of conductors and applying an electric pulse between the electrodes to destroy the insulating member. This makes it possible to separate the plurality of conductors from the composite material by making a shock wave caused by a current of the dielectric breakdown functioning as an adhesive to effectively destroy the insulating member.

An improved bacterial oil treatment composition or pool for handling a decommissioned oil cable, which may be laid in particular as part of a power grid in the ground. The invention further relates to a bacteria growth culture medium containing the bacterial oil treatment composition for refurbishing an oil cable and a corresponding use.

The invention relates to an apparatus for unravel-ling wire ropes (3), which are made up of a complex of different materials, having a peeling device (1) with an opening (5), through which a core (9) of the wire rope (3) passes along a through-feed axis (D) and a through-feed direction (Z), while an outer portion (10) is separated, said peeling device (1) comprising a mandrel (4) through which the opening (5) passes axially, with at least one rotatable cutting wheel (12) being provided next to the mandrel (4), which wheel has on the circumference thereof at least one blade (13) and the axis of rotation (R) of which wheel is substantially transverse to the through-feed axis (D), characterized in that a cut-ting profile (6) of the blade (13) or a common cutting profile (6) of the blades (13) is concave in form.

A device for separating a core and sheath of cable includes an apparatus delivering the cable along cable feed axis parallel to longitudinal axis of cable. Two knives cut sheath to two portions mechanically dissociated from one another. Each knife cuts sheath over its whole thickness in radial cutting zone with respect to central axis of the cable. Two blockers extend the knives in the direction of the feed axis of the cable and keep the core in position along the feed axis of the cable. At least one ramp extends from each knife in a second direction perpendicular to the radial cutting zone and to the feed axis of the cable. The ramp has an outer surface extending away from the cable feed axis in the first direction when movement takes place in the feed direction of the cable to separate the core and the portions of the sheath.

According to typical inventive practice, a cable is grasped by a Kellum grip and is positioned through the topside “V”-notch of an “M”-structure. Two wires engage pulleys and a ratchet distanced from the pulleys. The pulleys are joined with a grip plate, attached at an axial end of the Kellum grip. The ratchet is joined with a ratchet plate, proximate and/or attached to the “M”-structure. The “M”-structure has joined therewith three blade wheels having cutting orientations in the same linear direction. The blade wheels are situated interiorly and perpendicularly in correspondence to the geometric sides of the inverted triangle defined by the “V”-notch. Each blade wheel is adjustable to suit the diameter of the cable positioned through the “V”-notch. Ratcheting of the wires moves the ratchet plate and hence the “M”-structure, resulting in creation via the blade wheels of three parallel slices in the cable along its axis.

In this treatment method of a coated wire, a coated wire, which is a metal wire coated with a resin, is subjected to low-temperature heating in a non-combustion atmosphere in coexistence with an alkali to embrittle the coating resin, the embrittled coating resin is crushed, and the coating resin and the metal wire are separated.

A connector assembly (10) is disclosed in which a connector part (12) and a cable manager part (20) are provided. The cable manager part (20) can be provided with a separable lacing fixture (24) that functions to retain the severed portions (6a) of the wires (6) that result from the termination process, rather than allowing the severed wire portions (6a) to fall to the floor in an uncollected state. In one aspect, the cable manager part (20) has a main body (22) to which the separable lacing fixture (24) is attached via a plurality of breakaway portions (34). During installation, the connector part (12) is inserted onto the cable manager part (20) and is placed in a wire termination tool (7) which fully inserts the connector part (12) onto the cable manager part (20). This action causes the connector part (12) to cut the wires (6) and to sever or break the breakaway portions (34) such that the separable lacing fixture (24) is separated from the fully formed connector (10).

The disclosure relates to an apparatus for continuous processing of a cable-to-be-recycled simultaneously with being pulled from a pull zone during reconductoring or restringing so as to avoid storing the cable-to-be-recycled on a reel, wherein said cable-to-be-recycled has a cable length equal to a length of the pull zone, wherein the cable-to-be-recycled has aluminum strands surrounding a core, and wherein the cable-to-be-recycled is pulled during a pull from the pull zone by a first puller, the apparatus including: a strand cutter adapted to be used in proximity to the puller and adapted to continuously receive the cable-to-be-recycled and to cut through the aluminum strands of the cable-to-be-recycled, while in proximity to the puller, so as to remove segments of the aluminum strands from the core of the cable-to-be-recycled, for recycling of the segments of the aluminum strands, while leaving the core intact as the cable-to-be-recycled passes through the strand cutter during the pull from the pull zone of the cable-to-be-recycled.

Methodology for reclaiming metal from insulated and/or shielded and/or jacketed power cables present on supporting conveyor belts, by waterjetting using stationary and/or spinning nozzles.