A wire-cut electric discharge machining apparatus causes an electric discharge between a wire and the work while supplying a working fluid to the area therebetween, thereby machining the work.

The coloring/cutting unit (12) puts a mark (coloring) on the outer surface (5a) of the cable (3) produced by the production unit (11), and then cuts the cable.

A cable can extend into the cutout area.

The fibre cable is drawn in a drawing zone before being cut into stacked fibres, wherein the fibre cable is treated with a fluid prior to the drawing process.

A cutting apparatus to cut a tow includes a tow support, first blade, and tow support deflector.

The constitution of the plasma cutting torch is such that this torch for plasma cutting (7) has an electrode (13), a first cable (8), a torch switch (12), a second cable (10), a tip (14), and a third cable (9).

Space in a conduit having at least one cable therein which is surrounded by a duct is recovered by longitudinally cutting the duct and removing the duct from around the cable.

The alignment pilot (48) includes a punch for severing the web between adjacent cable ties upon movement of the pilot toward the severing location.

A break-out tray (T) is disclosed for separating the fibre end portions formed by cutting one or more fibres of a multi-fibre cable (C) from the remaining fibres in the cable.

Cutting is accomplished by rotatingly actuating the cutting head with an associated motor, and then radially extending the cutting blades away from the cutting head.

The device may also include a crimped cutting member, a retroacting cutting member, dual pivoting jaws, and/or a wire tensioning assembly.

Cutting is accomplished by rotatingly actuating the cutting head with an associated motor, and then radially extending the cutting blade away from the cutting head.

As a result, a relative dielectric constant of the cable is reduced, increasing a propagation velocity of a signal, and making the cutting of the cable easy.

A cutting assembly (60) is supported by the cutting head (24) and includes a plurality of spaced cutting blades (62) that are rotatable with respect to the housing.

The polish stops may be removed by saw dicing, laser dicing or plasma etching.