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Abstract

A new type of process for creating a termination on cables and ropes, as well as a product made by this process. The process can create a termination having a heterogenous composition. It has been found that the addition of certain solids to conventional liquid potting compounds can enhance the performance of terminations made using these compounds. In order to create a desired dispersion of the solids within the potted termination, a new potting process is employed, whereby the strands are wetted with liquid potting compound (containing the solids) before the anchor is placed over them. The anchor is then moved into place in a controlled motion. The geometry of the internal passage through the anchor (which contains the wetted strands) is shaped to take advantage of this controlled motion. The geometry causes the liquid potting compound to flow at one rate while the solids suspended therein flow at a different rate, resulting in a potted termination with a heterogeneous composition.

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