Method and apparatus for wrapping multiple tapes upon an elongated structure

Abstract From the Canadian patent

The disclosure relates to a tape supply package having a plurality of different tap wound thereon in a universal or traverse wound arrangement. Apparatus and a method for traverse winding the package are disolosed. The disclosure also relates to apparatus and a method for simultaneously wrapping a plurality of different tapes around the outer portion of an elongated structure such as an electrical conductor by the use of the tape supply package having the plurality of traverse wound tapes. The disclosure further relates to various multiple tape-wrapped elongated constructions such as electrical conductors which have a plurality of partially overlapped tapes which have been simultaneously …