Heating cable connector for railroad switch heating system

Details Heating cable connector for railroad switch heating system Heating cable connector for railroad switch heating system

1999-02-10

2000-11-14

Reichard, Dean A.

Electricity: conductors and insulators

Conduits, cables or conductors

Combined

174 88C, 439578, H02G 1502

Patent

active

061473081

ABSTRACT:
A heating cable assembly includes a connector having a sleeve, and a heat-absorbing electrically conductive core member within the sleeve. The assembly also includes a heating cable having an electrical resistance heating wire extending from the core member out a first end of the sleeve, and a water-proof, heat conductive, spirally fluted tube encasing the heating cable. According to one embodiment, the connector further includes an electrically conductive expansion joint extending from the core member opposite said heating wire. According to an additional embodiment, the assembly includes a weld connecting the spirally fluted tube to the first end of the sleeve.

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