Apparatus for reverse stranding and a method in connection with stranding and reverse stranding

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A reverse stranding apparatus for the reverse stranding of conductors to produce cables or the like and to a method in connection with stranding and reverse stranding. In the invention, the conductors are drawn from a distributor means into a nozzle or equivalent through peripheral tubes circumferentially surrounding a central tube and being twistable about the central tube recurrently in opposite directions. To facilitate the passage of the conductor a pressurized, fluid is fed through the peripheral tube upstream ends into the peripheral tubes during the drawing of the conductors to produce oscillation whereby the conductor passing through each peripheral tube remains substantially …