Appeal No. 95-0072
Application 07/922,796
claims 1 through 5, 7, 8 and 10 through 19, all of the claims now
pending in this application. We reverse.
Claim 1, the sole independent claim before us, defines the
claimed invention as follows:
1. In an apparatus for filling the interspaces between leads
and a sheath of an optical and/or electrical cable with a filling
compound, said apparatus including a filling head that has a pre-
filling chamber and a main filling chamber, the improvements
comprising the pre-filling chamber having a common admission
channel for receiving a plurality of leads, which are loosely
bundled together to form a bundle having a bundle diameter, said
common admission channel having a diameter of the through-opening
thereof slightly larger than said bundle diameter, said admission
channel being followed by the pre-filling chamber into which said
bundle of loosely bundled leads enters, said apparatus including
a coating nozzle having a diminished cross section positioned to
receive the bundle leaving the pre-filling chamber and
discharging the bundle into the main filling chamber, a bypass
interconnecting the pre-filling chamber and the main filling
chamber, said pre-filling chamber having openings for said
admission channel, said coating nozzle and said bypass and being
otherwise closed and pressurizable, the main chamber being
connected to a reservoir containing the filling compound and pump
means for maintaining said filling compound pressurized in said
main chamber and in said pre-filling chamber.
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