Electric fence tape and fence wire are used by graziers for strip grazing. In order to reduce resistance several conductor strands are used in both tape and wire but these are prone to breakage without warning. Stainless steel is favoured but is only a modest electrical conductor. Mixtures of stainless steel conductors 10 which resist tensile stress and copper conductors 8 which improve electrical conductivity are disclosed. Likewise mixtures of stainless steel and aluminium wires are disclosed. Ratios of copper to stainless of 25 to 75% are favoured with an example of three copper and six stainless wires. The mix of wires is incorporated into a woven or knitted tape; a braided ribbon or a unidirectionally twisted cord. A feature of both tape and wire is the use of white textile strands rather than the formerly used colours orange and yellow. The advantage is greater visibility coupled with much increased conduction for larger sized fields and strips.

A prepreg material comprising a web (4) of resin impregnated fabric woven from a multiplicity of elongated fiber bundles (5, 7) arranged to substantially cover the entire surface of the web (4). The individual fibers (6) of the bundles (5) are constructed of a dielectric material, e.g. glass, and at least some of the individual fibers in at least some of the bundles have an electrically conductive surface coating extending over substantially the full length of such fibers. An uncured curable resin impregnates the web so as to form a prepreg material which can be transformed upon curing of the resin into a rigid article exhibiting conductivity supplied by the conductive coating.

An electrically conductive fabric particularly adapted for use as a controlling antenna in a conveyor belt. The fabric includes filler and warp yarns of an electrically insulating material suffused with electrically conducting carbon particles, the warp and filler being woven in an open mesh configuration. The open mesh configuration is secured by a leno weave and a vulcanized elastomeric material surrounding the yarns

Provided are a composite electric wire structure wherein a carbon material island structure is formed on a surface of a metal wire and a method for manufacturing the same. The carbon material/metal composite electric wire is capable of solving stability problem and preventing a decrease in electrical properties, mechanical properties, etc. In addition, the composite electric wire structure may be produced in commercially viable large scale.

Fabric for connector destined to form a grounding, which comprises a plurality of bare aluminium filaments (2) and a plurality of filaments made of non-conductive material (3), both types of filaments being destined to be inserted in two connection terminals (4, 5) provided with openings where are inserted and pressed the ends of the filaments (2, 3), wherein the percentage in weight of the filaments made of non-conductive material (3) is at most 35 % of all the filaments. This fabric is light, cheap and moreover its composition deters from possible thefts. The invention also relates to a connector provided with this fabric, and an element grounded by means said connector.

There is provided a ground structure of a braided wire having reduced the number of parts and the number of assembling processes and having improved a shield capability. A cylindrical part 52 that is made to stand upright from a periphery of an insertion hole 51 toward an outside of a device case 5 is provided to the device case 5. A terminal of a braid 22 is put on an outer side of the cylindrical part 52 of the device case 5 and a shield band 10 is wound on an outer side of the braid 22 put on the outer side of the cylindrical part 52.

There is described a method for making a flexible conductor (15) with connecting terminals (21) at both ends and consisting of one or more flexible, braided copper bands (4, 6), by which method a copper band, preferably from a coil, is supplied to a two-part forging tool (16) in a press, e.g. an eccentric press, that protective gas (nitrogen) is supplied to the forging tool for protecting the structure of the copper and for displacing oxygen and avoiding discolouring of the copper band, that the copper band (4, 6) is subjected to a very great current intensity between points at each side of the forging tool so that the part of the copper band situated in the forging tool (16) is heated to red-hot condition, that the current is switched off and that the press is simultaneously activated for bringing together the tool parts for compressing and forging the said part of the copper band so that it subsequently appears as a solid and homogenous piece of copper of which the connecting terminals are formed, either by an immediately succeeding operation or by a later operation. Hereby it is achieved that by means of simple technical measures it becomes possible to make a new and improved flexible conductor making possible to reduce the number of conductors stocked very significantly as the conductor according to the invention, according to need, may consist of several parallel, preferably identical, copper bands with integrated end terminals of solid and/or homogenous copper.

An elongated conductor is provided having a solder ribbon core which causes the internal flooding of the braid of the cable upon application of heat thereto. The volume of solder flooded throughout the braid may be controlled and uniformly dispersed via inserting a desired weight, thickness and width of the solder ribbon core.

L'invention est relative à un ruban électrifié pour clôture d'enclos à bétail.

Le ruban électrifié est formé d'une armature souple dans laquelle est intégré un réseau de conducteurs électriques. L'armature dispose de moyens de stabilisation dimensionnelle du réseau de conducteurs électriques qui se présentent sous la forme d'une texture trame (4) chaîne (5) entrecroisées liées par une chaîne tricotée dont les mailles bloquent chaque intersection de la texture et enferment les fils du réseau de conducteurs électriques (6, 7 et 8).

L'invention concerne le textile.

Electric fence tape and fence wire are used by graziers for strip grazing. In order to reduce resistance several conductor strands are used in both tape and wire but these are prone to breakage without warning. Stainless steel is favoured but is only a modest electrical conductor. Mixtures of stainless steel conductors 10 which resist tensile stress and copper conductors 8 which improve electrical conductivity are disclosed. Likewise mixtures of stainless steel and aluminium wires are disclosed. Ratios of copper to stainless of 25 to 75% are favoured with an example of three copper and six stainless wires. The mix of wires is incorporated into a woven or knitted tape; a braided ribbon or a unidirectionally twisted cord. A feature of both tape and wire is the use of white textile strands rather than the formerly used colours orange and yellow. The advantage is greater visibility coupled with much increased conduction for larger sized fields and strips.