| Assembly | Two or more individually insulated conductors or groups of insulated conductors cabled together to form a round cable. A flat or oval cable may also be constructed with single conductors or groups of conductors in one or more rows. The length of lay of the twisted conductors or groups is not specified. Fillers may be used in a cable but are not required. A barrier layer, if employed, may be a fibrous wrap serving, or braid, paper, nylon, oriented polyethylene terephthalate, or thermoplastic-tape wrap. Such a barrier layer would serve to protect the cable during further processing and would be applied immediately over the twisted assembly of individual conductors or groups of conductors or over the shield, if provided. |