US2462149A - Process for treatment of cable insulated with thermoplastic material - Google Patents

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US2462149A
US2462149A US636022A US63602245A US2462149A US 2462149 A US2462149 A US 2462149A US 636022 A US636022 A US 636022A US 63602245 A US63602245 A US 63602245A US 2462149 A US2462149 A US 2462149A
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01B—CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
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  • This invention relates to treatment of electric cables and more particularly of cables in which the conductor is insulated with a covering of thermoplastic material.
  • voids are apt to occur in the body of the insulation and along the boundary between the conductor or conductors and the insulation. Some of the voids may initially be vacuous but in course of time the gas pressure in them increases owing to air diffusing through the insulation. Voids are particularly liable to occur along the boundary between the conductor and its surrounding insulation in the case of insulation composed of certain thermoplastic materials that either do not adhere to metal at all or i do not satisfactorily or easily adhere thereto. This is particularly the case with solid polymers of ethylene, known as polythene, since these substances will not at all adhere to metal unless some special precautions are taken.
  • a method of manufacturing an electric cable the conductor of which is insulated with a covering of thermoplastic material comprises heating the insulated conductor and subjecting it to pressure whilst hot and during subsequent cooling.
  • the time during which the heat and pressure are maintained depends upon the temperature, the higher the temperature the less the time required so that it is preferable to heat to a temperature only a little below the melting point.
  • the insulated conductor should not of course be raised to such a temperature that the insulating material melts.
  • the voids in the insulation and between the insulation and the conductor are substantially reduced as may be determined by visual inspection and by measurements of the minimum voltage at which ionisation occurs.
  • the minimum voltage at which ionisation occurred was increased from about 2 kv. to over 6 kv. by the application of the method set out above.
  • a still further improvement may be effected by placing the insulated conductor in vacuo prior to heat and pressure being applied, the insulated conductor being allowed to remain in vacuo for a sufficient period to enable any air therein to difiuse away.
  • the pressure diiference assisting the diifusion of the air is not greater than 15 lb./sq. inch, the period required for the air to diffuse away may be inconveniently long. It may, however, be lessened by first compressing the insulated conductor and. then releasing. the pressure and storing the cable for a while at atmospheric pressure or in vacuo. Any entrapped air is thus raised to a higher pressure and tends to diffuse more quickly through the insulation whilst the insulated conductor is maintained at atmospheric pressure or below.
  • the time required is still further reduced if the insulated conductor is heated whilst under pressure so that the preferred method is to heat the insulated conductor whilst subjecting it to pressure, allow it to cool whilst the pressure is maintained, evacuate the container in which the cable is placed, allow the insulated conductor to remain in vacuo for a time and then to repeat the heat and compression.
  • the invention although particularly applicable to and hereinafter described in connec tion with a cable in which the conductor is insulated with polythene, is not confined thereto but is applicable to cables the conductors of which are insulated with other thermoplastic materials.
  • Fig. 1 shows in cross section a stranded conductor insulated with an extruded covering of polythene immediately after extrusion
  • Fig. 2 shows, also in cross section the same insulated conductor after the method of the invention has been applied thereto;
  • Fig. 3 shows one form of apparatus for treating a cable of comparatively large diameter according to the invention.
  • Fig. 1 shows a stranded conductor I over which has been extruded a covering of polythene 2. Owing to such factors as air bubbles in the extruded polythene and contraction upon cooling voids such as 3 may be formed, and there may also be a space 4 be tween a portion of the periphery of the conductor and the surrounding polythene. These features have been shown in exaggerated form for the sake of clearness. The polythene does not adhere to the wires of the stranded conductor l.
  • Figs. 3 and 4 show such an apparatus adapted for a cable of large eral sections 8 of heavy steel pipe jointed together.
  • the ends of the cable are sealed by means of metal caps bound with rubber tape.
  • Suitable end pieces 9 are then bolted on the end sections 8.
  • the steel tube composed of the-sections 8 and end pieces 9 is then evacuated of air and filled with water.
  • the steel tube is enclosed within an outer jacket l provided with inlet and outlet pipes l l and I2 and steam under pressure is circulated through the jacket it, thus heating the water Within the inner steel tube.
  • a suitable pump I3 to about 2 tons per square inch.
  • the steam is shut on and the cable allowed to cool slowly with the pressure still maintained. Azfter room temperature is attained the pressure is released and the steel tube emptied of water.
  • Thesteel tube may then be evacuated and the cable'left in vacuo for some hours or even days.
  • the end caps 9 may be removed and the cable pulled out of the steel tube, rewound on a drum and stored for some days or weeks, and then redrawn into the steel tube and the end caps 9 replaced.
  • cables of small diameter can conveniently be wound upon a former and that the chamber for carrying out has been reduced to a smaller size whilst the polythene 2 has been forced into the interstices between the strands of conductor I thus eliminating the space 4.
  • thermo-plastic insulated cable that comprises placing the finished cable in a pressure chamber, applying pressure to the cable within the chamber and maintaining the cable at a temperature such as to cause softening Without melting of the insulation whereby the insulation is compressed and gas within voids in such insulation is subjected to increased pressure causing reduction in the size of such voids, thereafter reducing the temperature whilemaintaining the pressure whereby the insulating material becomes solid, then storing the cable at sub-atmospheric pressure whereby gas in the voids clifiuses through the insulating material into the surrounding atmosphere.

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US2863173A (en) * 1956-03-26 1958-12-09 Dow Chemical Co Process for clarifying oriented vinylidene chloride polymer films
US4259281A (en) * 1978-04-19 1981-03-31 Industrie Pirelli S.P.A. Process for reducing micro-voids in the extruded insulation of electric cables
US4360706A (en) * 1978-04-19 1982-11-23 Industrie Pirelli S.P.A. Electric cables of reduced micro-voids in the extruded insulation
US20100314022A1 (en) * 2008-02-20 2010-12-16 Abb Research Ltd. Method for providing an insulated electric high voltage dc cable or a high voltage dc termination or joint
US11450450B2 (en) * 2018-03-30 2022-09-20 Essex Furukawa Magnet Wire Japan Co., Ltd. Insulated wire

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US1501791A (en) * 1920-06-23 1924-07-15 Marshall Charles Lancaster Gas-expanded vulcanized-rubber substance and process for making the same
US2035190A (en) * 1932-02-29 1936-03-24 Ici Ltd Manufacture of thermoplastic resinous materials
US2245640A (en) * 1936-04-10 1941-06-17 Tide Water Associated Oil Comp Method of molding paraffin wax
US2273188A (en) * 1939-04-12 1942-02-17 Du Pont Method and apparatus for producing artificial structures
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US1501791A (en) * 1920-06-23 1924-07-15 Marshall Charles Lancaster Gas-expanded vulcanized-rubber substance and process for making the same
US2035190A (en) * 1932-02-29 1936-03-24 Ici Ltd Manufacture of thermoplastic resinous materials
US2245640A (en) * 1936-04-10 1941-06-17 Tide Water Associated Oil Comp Method of molding paraffin wax
US2273188A (en) * 1939-04-12 1942-02-17 Du Pont Method and apparatus for producing artificial structures
US2384224A (en) * 1941-11-03 1945-09-04 Ici Ltd Extrusion of thermoplastic materials

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US2863173A (en) * 1956-03-26 1958-12-09 Dow Chemical Co Process for clarifying oriented vinylidene chloride polymer films
US4259281A (en) * 1978-04-19 1981-03-31 Industrie Pirelli S.P.A. Process for reducing micro-voids in the extruded insulation of electric cables
US4360706A (en) * 1978-04-19 1982-11-23 Industrie Pirelli S.P.A. Electric cables of reduced micro-voids in the extruded insulation
US20100314022A1 (en) * 2008-02-20 2010-12-16 Abb Research Ltd. Method for providing an insulated electric high voltage dc cable or a high voltage dc termination or joint
RU2477539C2 (ru) * 2008-02-20 2013-03-10 Абб Рисерч Лтд Способ получения изолированного электрического высоковольтного кабеля постоянного тока (dc), или высоковольтного вывода постоянного тока (dc), или высоковольтного места соединения
US8398803B2 (en) * 2008-02-20 2013-03-19 Abb Research Ltd. Method for providing an insulated electric high voltage DC cable or a high voltage DC termination or joint
US11450450B2 (en) * 2018-03-30 2022-09-20 Essex Furukawa Magnet Wire Japan Co., Ltd. Insulated wire

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