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"Good first time (seasonal) job. "
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I worked at Toys ''R'' Us part-time (Less than a year)
Flexible hours, will work with you if you have school or another job.
Friendly co-workers and management.
Fun environment.
During seasonal hours can very and be few.
Little training - consisted of watching a 45 minute video and shadowing someone for about half an hour, then sent out on your own.
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A little more training would be nice, I know that I was only seasonal, but that doesn't mean that I don't care about the job I'm doing and that I don't want to know what I'm really doing.
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I have been working at Toys ''R'' Us part-time (More than a year)RecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEORecommendsNeutral OutlookNo opinion of CEO
good pay, good hours if you ask to work and learn things. and of course if you do a good job then you will make more money. it can be fun at times. talking to people on the sales floor definitely gives great experience for many other future jobs. its not easy to get fired really. not as many crying babies as one might expect. and pregnant ladies are actually pretty kind. when people do recognize your hard work, it feels pretty good, but thats not often. pos system is pretty simple. scheduling is pretty good.
sales pressure for cashiers is not cool. cashiering can make one feel robotic and while it may look good on applications to cashier for a couple years, it does a lot more for your character to sell things on the sales floor. some employees can be rude and immature at times. inconsistent policies and procedures. not all employees are on the same page about how things work. i have a bad feeling that my last pay "raise" was based on a personal bias of one supervisor towards me which had no reasonable explanation to it. its not that easy to be recognized. nobody seems to trust each other. theres no drug tests. after my long time working very hard i feel like if im not recognized as the next supervisor of my department then im basically wasting my time. when the store is busy, the lack of enough main cashiers calls for sales floor workers to get on registers and lose time that could be used on more important tasks. oh, and managers definitely have favorites. too much complaining from everyone about everything. the complaining has definitely rubbed off on me as well
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pay closer attention to all employees. show more respect. an old assistant manager of mine was basically an expert of the whole store, all managers should be that way. managers should basically know more than anyone when it comes to certain procedures, product knowledge, and just how to do everything. could be a little more open minded. store seems too divided by departments. we need more to make our small group of employees feel like an awesome team. more employees and more business to make use of new employees. if theres any way to suggest to corporate better marketing strategies to improve sales that would be great. out store seems like the minimum of a "busy store".
"Very good job but not career unless you like retail A LOT "
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I worked at Toys ''R'' Us part-time (More than a year)Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEODoesn't RecommendNegative OutlookNo opinion of CEO
I loved working there for about 8 or 9 months but I was there for 14 months total. I was hired for season in November and it was my first job and I was ecstatic at the age of 17. Working season for the first time was a lot of fun yet a lot of work which wasnt anything to complain about. My managers seemed to love me and I was given a very very very small raise which again i was fine with at 17. I got along great with my coworkers at work but since i was so young i was excluded from most of the activities that the other coworkers always did such as bowling, movies, and bars which i couldnt go for obvious reasons. The pay was ok for me since i was in high school but it was not much. I worked for 14 months and ony made 4500 total.
Aside from the good things,which i cant deny there were a lot but very seldom, there were so many flaws that i never saw until i matured through my job and personal life. One of the biggest flaws is those stupid metrics such as loyalty goals and bpp's and batteries. NOBODY CARES I GUARANTEE IT. of course there are the few suckers (guests) that get sucked into the monopoloy of over priced toys that are "only at toys r us." but in reality and for the real people of this wold, no one cares about loyalty cards and they especially dont care about the secret marketing idea that is behind them. and if metrics ae so important than why shouldnt you give the cashiers some form of comission for selling them. if we dont get any reward for doing them and geting a lot of metrics (and believe me i got plenty) then that causes people like me to not care about metrics. there is no room for advanceent unless you are tere for fricken ever. since there is no room for advancement there is no desire to do anything at all that benefits the ompany unless it somehow benefits us but it DOES NOT. for example wheni had been there for about 4 months they tld me that they wanted to move me to rzone in about two months. im a geek so i belong there and i completed their training but waited patiently for about 6 or 7 months. when they started hiring for season i asked f i could go to rzone but they told me some crappy stuff about me being the best cahier and they needed me to help te new ones. instead of moving me there they hired new people who knew almost nothing and that angered me. cashiering is not hard at all and i figured it out onmy own. they can too. i again patiently wated until season was over and i expected to work rzone by then but no they moved somebody else over there because "it as a girl" . by season after working there for a year with no appreciation i stopped caring at all. during reshop i would stick a bunch of random items behind biger suff so we could leave early. anybody that has worked cashier know its exrremely easy but it is beyondboring and annoying as hell. i got tired of neglect and getting terible hours for terrible wges and constantly working cashier shifts so i just stopped going and could care less what happened because of my absence.sory for all the grammar errors this was off of a phone.
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Figure out a way to motivate employes to actually do their job.
Make a rewards program that actually benefits the guests and make it easier to understand and utilize for the guests.
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Gear in your server room is using more power and making more heat than ever before. High temperatures can cause gear to work poorly or even break your gear. Internal pieces swell and pull away from each other or simply burn. Effective server room temperature monitoring and maintenance is vital in maintaining the safety and performance of your gear.
Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) units or computer room air conditioning (CRAC) units are expected to keep a controlled temperature between roughly 61 and 75 F. Chances are you won't want the room temp to spend much time on the upper end of that range. It's also likely that gear in your server room will not maintain a level environment. Different gear in the room will generate more heat and require more cooling power.
To combat high temps in the server room, new major cooling plans have been developed: liquid cooling and air flow management.
Many server rooms employ liquid cooling in some form or another. HVACs / CRACs often use refrigerant to cool the air they put out. But typically the term "liquid cooling" is used to describe liquid-cooled racks, in which the same concept of using refrigerant to chill the air output is simply large to the racks themselves.
Most liquid cooled systems involve rack mounted chillers. There are door-mounted liquid cooling systems that cool the air leaving the rack to lower the rack's thermal output to the room. There are also liquid cooled systems that fully seal the rack. These systems have their own heat exchanger to cool air flowing through the system.
Finally, there are also liquid cooled systems that actually run liquid coolant in tubes on or near gear in the system. While this sort of system does deliver a maximum amount of cooling potential, it can cost a lot and creates a number of operational issues (including humidity control and problems with scalability).
Air flow management involves keeping a low temperature in the server room by using air flow to circulate cold air in and hot air out. The most popular use of air-flow management is referred to as a "hot aisle" layout. The popular plan arranges racks in aisles alternating between facing each other and facing away from each other. In the aisles where the racks face each other, cold air is pumped from under the floor and into the air intakes of the racks. Hot air is pushed out the backsides of the racks into the aisles where the racks face away from each other. CRAC units then push the air back into the ventilation system where it is cooled again and released beneath the floor to create a cycle that ensures the constant flow of cold air in the server room.
This plan is pretty low in cost compared to liquid cooling, but depends on all of the systems working to maintain air flow. The failure of any one piece results in a failure of the system, which can cause problems for the whole server room. Still, the low cost of install and the options allowed by air flow management cooling layouts make it the main method of server room cooling.
Of course, no matter what method you choose, you're going to need to guarantee that your server room maintains a cool temperature. You can't afford to wait until a server melts to find out that a part of your server room's temp management system has failed. It's expensive both in the cost of gear and potentially the number of clients you may lose due to a service-affecting outage. So you'll need a proactive monitoring system to keep you informed of the goings-on within your server room, so you can take action before a major failure occurs.
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Beyond simple rack monitoring though, you'll need to monitor the server room temperature/environment at large. Proper environmental monitoring will clue you into to problems long before they affect service, which will help you improve your uptime.
Of course monitoring your server room's temp systems is no easy task. You'll need to monitor air flow in hot aisles, cold aisles, the air under the floor, and possibly the air above the racks. You'll want to measure temperature in hot-spots around the room and at the racks themselves to check that your setup of computer room air conditioners doesn't have any blind-spots. Monitoring your server room's environment will help you stop server problems when a part of your temperature control systems fail. If air flow drops or one of your CRAC units isn't putting out the right temperature of air, monitoring your server room will tell you before you end up with a server-affecting problem. This saves you from a network downtime or gear failure. While this means you need to collect and report a lot of info, collecting that information doesn't have to be very hard or costly.
DPS Telecom recommends the TempDefender to collect data on your server room's temperature control systems. The TempDefender is a small, rack-mountable RTU designed to monitor up to 16 analog sensors, tracking temperature, air flow, and any other environmental factors you may be worried about in your server room. (In the event of liquid cooling systems, for example, you may wish to deploy humidity sensors near your liquid cooled components.)
The TempDefender's sensors connect via simple RJ11 connectors and are daisy-chainable up to 600 feet from the RTU. You can run sensors to every corner of your data center without having to run 16 full sensor cables back to your RTU. You also then don't have to place different RTUs in every corner of the data center to get the coverage you need. From this one RTU, you can run sensors to your room's hot spots and put sensors to measure air-flow in your hot and cold aisles.
You can also use the TempDefender's 8 Dry contact alarms to add extra monitoring in the cabinet with the TempDefender. Or you can mount the TempDefender near your CRAC units and monitor CRAC units directly, setting alarms immediately if a CRAC unit or heat exchanger fails.
Your monitoring systems will collect and report a lot of data. Both the NetGuardians and the TempDefender have a simple web interface and can send email alerts when alarms set. Tt will be much easier to keep track of your server room with a master station collecting and reporting alarms on a single interface. The master station will also need to have stolid reporting services, so you can keep updated on what happens in your server room, even when you're not around.
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Chapter 17 Exodus 19-20
The Story of a Kingdom Chapter 17 Chapter 17 The Story so Far Exodus 19-20 God was re-establishing His Kingdom through the family of Abraham – God's people, living in God's place, under God's rule and blessing. God's promises to Abraham involved his children living in a foreign land as slaves for 400 years. Through Joseph God's people went to live in Egypt and after some time they became slaves to Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God then sent Moses to Egypt to rescue His people, but Pharaoh refused to let them go. So God fought for His people as the Warrior-King against Pharaoh and destroyed their enemy. Objectives • To introduce the 10 commandments in the context of Israel's role as a priest • To understand the covenant at Mount Sinai as a follow on with Abraham's covenant, and part of God's Kingdom promises • To see the contract as both conditional and unconditional Connections • Adam and Israel as priest-kings – God will rule and bless the world through Israel • Both Adam and Israel live in covenant with God under His loving rule • God is re-establishing His Kingdom through His rule over His people Summary Israel is a priest-king to the world. Through Israel, God will rule and bless the world. As God's son, Israel must live in obedience to his Father and King The Story of a Kingdom Chapter 17 The Rules of the King The wrong way? Interestingly, God does not lead His people directly northeast to Canaan, but southeast to Mount Sinai in the desert. Geographically this is a long way round to get to Canaan and therefore what takes place at Mount Sinai must be very important. The Bible uses the word "redemption" to describe how God bought His people out of Egypt. It means the payment for freeing a slave. A ransom is paid to allow the slave to be joined in a new relationship with the person who bought him. Therefore, in the Bible it says that God redeems Israel. God buys Israel out of slavery in Egypt and into a new relationship with Himself. Israel now has a new owner, and so the question is, how should Israel live in relation to their new King? What are the rules of this King's country, and His house? And what purpose does Israel now serve under the King's loving rule? Reminder about redemption (Exodus 6:5; 15:13) What God has done for Israel (Exodus 19:3-4) God has rescued Israel from Egypt. He uses the picture of being brought to God, carried on an eagle's wings. This has been an act of grace since Israel was disobedient to God by worshipping the gods of Egypt. God has now entered a relationship with them. The Story of a Kingdom Chapter 17 What Israel is to do for God (Exodus 19:5-6) In response to God's kindness Israel is to obey their new King and Father, by keeping the covenant (contract) that God is about to reveal to them. God explains Israel's role in the world. Among all the nations Israel is to be holy = set apart = different. Israel is also to be a priest = mediator. To summarise, Israel is to serve the world by being different from the world. By being different Israel is to be an example to the world of what it means to live under God's rule. Israel will be different by obeying God's instructions. Adam and Israel Remember in the Garden of Eden – Adam was to be an example to the world of what it meant to live under God's rule, but he failed. God is giving Israel the same role. If Adam had obeyed, blessing would have come to the world, but it didn't. If Israel obeys, they will be God's special treasure and blessing will come to the world. Israel is like a new priest-king to the world. God will rule and bless the world through Israel. But just like Adam in Eden, Israel in Canaan would have to live under His rule. The King's instructions (Exodus 20) God speaks to the people and gives them 10 instructions to obey: 1. You shall have no other gods before me 2. You shall not make an idol of anything, including myself 3. You shall not misuse my name 4. Remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy 5. Honour your mother and father 6. You shall not murder 7. You shall not commit adultery 8. You shall not steal 9. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour 10. You shall not covet your neighbour's possessions The King's Covenant At Mount Sinai God is making a contract with His people. God the King is giving His law to His people. It is a contract between the King and His subjects. That is why there are two copies written on two pieces of stone – one for the King and one for the people. They are like the family rules from a father to a son. They give a picture of what life in the King's country should look like. The Story of a Kingdom Chapter 17 Summary of God's instructions (Leviticus 19:1-2) God's 10 instructions can be summarised in these words – "Be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy". In fact all of the rules and regulations can be summarised in these words. God's Law can be summarised as – Be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. An unconditional contract - grace God's contract with Israel is both unconditional (no conditions) and conditional (conditions apply). It is unconditional because it is based on God's gracious promises to Abraham. Israel did not deserve to be rescued from Egypt but God acted in grace and gave them what they did not deserve. This is implied in Exodus 19:4 when God speaks to Israel, "You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself". God has carried Israel out of Egypt. God has done it all. This is His act of grace to Israel. God's contract with Israel is unconditional, based not on their good efforts, but on what God has already done for them. A conditional contract - obedience But with grace comes responsibility. This is going to become a key theme from now on in the Bible. When God gives grace to someone they have a responsibility to follow His ways. Now Israel has a responsibility to live in obedience to the God who has rescued them. So this contract from Mount Sinai is also conditional. To continue as God's son, and thus remain in contract, they must obey His words and keep His instructions. It's the natural responsibility that comes from the privilege of being God's chosen people. The conditional side of the contract is seen in Exodus 19:5-6: "Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation". If Israel obeys they will be God's holy people, His treasured possession. The Story of a Kingdom Chapter 17 The covenant is established by grace but is to be maintained by Israel's obedience. The contract is therefore both unconditional (no conditions) and conditional (conditions apply). It is unconditionally established, but it is to be conditionally maintained. God's covenant is established by grace, but is maintained by obedience. GRACE LAW Relationship with God is established by grace. Obedience is the way of life for those in a relationship with God. 'I will be their God, they will be my people' Israel's response (Exodus 19:8; 24:3-4) The Israelites understand the conditions of God's contract. Before God makes the contract the people promise to obey it. Then God gives more rules to Moses. Afterwards the people respond again that they will obey. So the Israelites understand that the contract is established by grace and to be maintained by obedience. They do not do anything to deserve God's contract, but now that they are in it, they must obey. God's Kingdom God's Kingdom is God's people, living in God's place, under God's rule and blessing. God has rescued His people out of Egypt and now He is going to give them a new land in which He will live with them. The rules of God's Kingdom are given to Israel at Mount Sinai, which they are to obey. The themes from Eden are returning. God is ruling His people through His words. The Story of a Kingdom Chapter 17 Think it through & discuss 1. In what way does the covenant at Mount Sinai connect with God's promises to Abraham? Think about where Israel has come from and where they are going. 2. Have God's instructions at Mount Sinai anything to do with His Kingdom? 3. What is Israel's role in the world? 4. What are the connections between Adam and Israel? 5. In what way is God's contract unconditional and conditional? is both
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The shrieks and yells you hear towards the bottom of CMG are not the hapless victims of sasquatch attacks - instead they come from the zip line/alpine slide/roller coaster circus at the base area. Stop and watch if you're interested, the trail goes very close to the tracks in several places.
Note: the CMG trail is open for downhill biking only from Lower Jenni's Trail to the bottom. Uphill and downhill biking is OK on CMG higher than Lower Jenni's Trail.
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An elongated material such as a cable (20), for example, is provided with a repetitive pattern of a marking (40) which provide information to an observer. Each marking includes intentionally discernible indentations or recesses (33--33) which are formed in plastic material comprising an outer covering (32) of the elongated material. Further, each indentation is filled with a pigmented material (50) which provides a desirable color contrast with the color of the outer covering. The filling material must have a melt viscosity which allows it to be flowed easily into the indentations, yet be retainable in the indentations during handling of the elongated material such as during installation of a cable.
1. A cable having an identifying marking thereon, said cable comprising:
a core comprising a communications medium;
a sheath system which includes at least a jacket which encloses said core, said jacket comprising a plastic material and having an identifying marking thereon, said marking including laser-formed indentations which have been provided in a desired manner to a predetermined depth in said jacket; and
a curable filling material which is disposed in said indentations and which contrasts to a color of said plastic jacket material wherein said filling material comprises a composition of matter which has a melt viscosity that does not exceed a value of about 5000 centipoise and which is such that it does not inhibit the flow of said filling material into the indentations, and wherein said filling material substantially fills each of said indentations.
2. The cable of claim 1, wherein said filling material comprising a wax and having a melt viscosity which falls in the range of about 200-5000 centipoise at a temperature of about 170� F. to 250� F.
3. The cable of claim 1, wherein said filling material is a composition of matter which includes a pigment constituent which causes said filling material to have a color which exhibits a desirable contrast to the color of said jacket.
4. The cable of claim 3, wherein said cable jacket is black in color and the color of said filling material is substantially white.
5. The cable of claim 1 wherein said filling material extends from an innermost surface of said indentations to an outer surface of said plastic jacket material.
6. The cable of claim 1, wherein said cable jacket has a thickness of about 0.020 inch and the depth of each said indentation is in the range of about 0.003 to 0.006 inch.
This invention relates to an article having a marking thereon. More particularly, the invention relates to a cable having indentations formed in an outer surface of an outer plastic jacket thereof with the indentations being filled with a material which contrasts in color with that of the plastic jacket.
Cable is a widely used transmission medium in the communications industry. Typically, a communications cable includes a core comprising a transmission medium and a sheath system. The transmission medium may be an insulated metallic conductor or an optical fiber. The sheath system generally includes a plastic jacket. A commonly used plastic material for the jacket in outside plant communications cables is polyethylene.
For reasons which should be apparent, cables are marked. For example, the markings may be used to provide information such as the name of the manufacturer, type of cable and footage length. Of course, these markings should be permanent and not be removeable by normal contact with expected objects or by handling or by exposure to the elements.
Inks have been used for some time to mark cable jackets. The ink may be applied by a contact wheel printer. A currently used cable ink printer includes a computer controlled system that directs jet streams of ink in dot matrix, alpha-numeric codes onto the outer plastic cable jacket. The length accuracy of the markings can be adjusted to �0.1% by changing electronically an input signal from a counter wheel. From a manufacturing point of view, this system appears to be a significant improvement over a previously used contact ink marker.
Marking with inks on polyethylene has always been a problem for the industry because of the wax-like surface of polyethylene and the lack of polar groups in its molecular structure which would facilitate adhesion thereto of a marking material. Unfortunately it has been found that ink jet marks are removed easily during routine cable handling. This, of course, leads to customer complaints and may result in lost business for a cable manufacturer. Long sought after has been a cost-effective, indented, permanent marking for cable jackets.
Currently, processes other than those which involve the application of ink to a cable jacket are in use in copper and in optical fiber cable manufacture, but even these suffer some disadvantages. For example, in order to mark permanently cable jackets, hot stamp apparatus has been used. Such apparatus is mechanically driven and produces high quality marks, but it is relatively expensive to operate. The capital costa and the running costs due to foil consumption cause the system to be significantly more expensive to operate than other systems. Because the unit is not computer-controlled, cable codes must be changed using print type. This is a time-consuming process. Another disadvantage of the hot stamp marker is the difficulty of establishing a correct footage measurement of a desired accuracy. Also, the marking of cable jackets with embossed letters is known in the art.
In another approach, numerical and/or alphabetical recesses or indentations have been formed by lasers in plastic material comprising cable jackets. One example of a cable marking method and apparatus using lasers is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,370,542 which issued on Jan. 25, 1983.
It has been recognized that laser units hold promise as future marking systems. The laser has no consumables and is very reliable because of an all electronic construction. Inasmuch as there are no mechanical wear points, maintenance requirements for a laser cable marking system are negligible. Loading cable product codes may be accomplished by using a keyboard, or to reduce human error, by using a bar code reader. In one laser marking system, as many as seventy-five characters can be stored in the laser's buffer memory. As the laser is activated by a line counter, a five by seven dot matrix marking is burned into the cable jacket. The marking is synchronized to the manufacturing line speed through an optical encoder.
Also, markings which contrast with the color of the cable jacket are known in the prior art. For example, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,808,966there is disclosed a cable jacket marking system which comprises two layers. A first layer includes a colorant material which is contrastingly different from the color of an overlaying second layer of plastic material. Portions of the overlaying second layer of plastic material are removed to form a desired marking which generally is repetitive along the length of the cable. The portions of the plastic material of the second layer are removed to a depth which extends to the first layer thereby exposing the first layer and providing a color contrast for the letters and/or numbers of a marking pattern in the second layer. The removal of portions of the second layer to form an alpha-numeric marking, for example, may be accomplished with a laser. Although this last-mentioned arrangement is effective to render the marking legend more discernible, it involves the use and application of another layer of plastic material.
Similarly, in the art of printed wiring boards, identifying markings are provided on a board by a process which involves the coating of a board with a material different in color from that of the board. Then, portions of the coating are burned away to have a discernible, predetermined marking remain.
What is needed and what seemingly is not provided in the art is a cable having a marking which is substantially permanent, which includes a system that does not require additional layers of material and which can be applied in existing manufacturing processes. Apparatus required for making the sought-after product should be easily intergrated into apparatus of existing manufacturing lines.
The foregoing problems of the prior art have been overcome with a marked article of this invention. An article having a marking thereon includes a substrate. The substrate has an identifying marking thereon, the marking includes indentations formed in a predetermined manner in the substrate. A filling material is disposed in the indentations and contrasts to a color of the substrate. One article of this invention, a marked cable, having an identifying marking thereon, comprises a core which includes a communications medium and a sheath system which includes at least a plastic jacket that encloses the core. The jacket has an identifying marking thereon. The marking includes recesses or indentations formed in a desired configuration to a predetermined depth in the jacket, and a curable material which fills substantially the indentations and which contrasts to a color of the material of the plastic jacket.
In a preferred embodiment, the indentations are formed in the plastic jacket by a laser. The material which is used to fill the recesses which have been formed in the plastic jacket is a wax. The filling material is characterized by a melt viscosity in a predetermined range and by pigment characteristics which provide a desired contrast with the color of the cable jacket.
In a method of providing a cable with a marking, the cable is moved along a path of travel. A laser is caused to form indentations to a predetermined depth in the cable jacket. The indentations are formed in a manner to provide a desired marking. Then a filling material which contrasts in color with that of the jacket is caused to be disposed in the indentations.
Other features of the present invention will be more readily understood from the following detailed description of specific embodiments thereof when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cable having an identifying marking provided in a jacket thereof;
FIG. 2 is a sectional view through a portion of the jacket of FIG. 1 to show a cross-sectional configuration of the marking; and
FIG. 3 is a schematic view of a manufacturing line which may be used to provide a cable having a marked jacket.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a cable, which is designated generally by the numeral 20. The cable 20 may be a communications cable which includes a core 22 and a sheath system 24. As is known, the core 22 may include a plurality of individually insulated metallic conductors or a plurality of optical fibers 26--26 which are shown in FIG. 2. For an optical fiber cable, the optical fibers may be enclosed in a tubular member 28. A waterblocking material 29 may be disposed in the tubular member 28.
Typically, the sheath system for a metallic conductor cable may include one or more metallic shields which may be corrugated and a jacket which is made of a plastic material. For an optical fiber cable such as the one depicted in FIG. 1, the core 22 and tubular member 28 are enclosed in a jacket 32 of plastic material. Embedded in the jacket 32 may be a plurality of strength members 31--31. See U.S. Pat. No. 4,826,278 which issued on May 2, 1989 in the names of C. H. Gartside, III, A. J. Panuska, and P. D. Patel.
A polyethylene plastic material is used commonly for the plastic jacket 32 or for the jacket of a metallic conductor cable. The polyethylene is durable under many environmental conditions and has a relatively low dielectric constant. For the cable of the preferred embodiment, the jacket 32 comprises a high density black polyethylene material having a density of about 0.96 grams/cm3.
Typically, it is desirable to provide desired information on the outer surface of the cable jacket. This may include information such as, for example, the manufacturer's name, date of manufacture, footage marks, place of manufacture and/or type of cable structure. Generally, such information is applied to the cable jacket at spaced intervals along its length.
For the cable 20 of this invention, letters and/or numerical markings are formed in the cable jacket 32 such that each letter or number comprises indentations 33--33 in the plastic material comprising the cable jacket. In the preferred embodiment, letters 34--34 and/or numerals which comprise a marking 40 on the cable jacket 32 are formed by a laser (not shown) which cuts into the jacket material.
A cable marking method and apparatus are disclosed in priorly identified U.S. Pat. No. 4,370,542, which is incorporated by reference hereinto. See also U.S. Pat. No. 4,808,966, which issued on Feb. 28, 1989 and which also is incorporated by reference hereinto. The laser (not shown) which is used must be capable of volatilizing portions of the plastic material of the jacket so as to form the indentations. In optical fiber cables such as the cable 20, the thickness of the cable jacket 32 is about 0.020 inch whereas its outer diameter is about 0.5 inch.
This indentations 33--33 which comprise the letters 34--34 and/or the numerals (not shown) are formed in a five by seven dot matrix, for example, in the jacket plastic to have a predetermined depth. The type of laser, which may be a YAG laser or a CO2 laser, for example, and its operating wavelength must be such that the indentations 33--33 extend through only a portion of the thickness of the cable jacket 32. Operating parameters of the laser (not shown) and the line speed of the cable 20 during marking are controlled to control the dimensions of each of the indentations. In a preferred embodiment, the depth of each indentation 33 is in the range of about 0.003 to 0.006 inch as measured from an innermost surface of each indentation to the other surface of the jacket 32. As can be seen in FIG. 2, each indentation 33 includes sidewalls 37--37 and a crater-like bottom surface 39. A cross section of each indentation 33 as viewed outside the cable may, as one example, depending on operating parameters and line speed, be elliptical with long and short axis dimensions of about 0.015 and 0.008 inch, respectively.
Cable markings must be substantially permanent. Otherwise, the markings may be removed from the cable jacket during handling and installation. The abuse to which a cable is exposed during installation is generally the most rigorous it will encounter during its life cycle.
Needless to say, the letters and/or the numerals which are formed as indentations in the cable jacket 32 are substantially permanent. However, although they are permanent, these laser-formed letters and numerals are not very discernible to the human eye. This is especially true inasmuch as the jacket plastic generally is a black polyethylene material.
What is needed is a marking system which not only is permanent but also one which contrasts with the color of the cable jacket 32. In order to provide such a contrast to the human eye, the indentations 33--33 of the cable marking of this invention are filled with a suitable material 50. Such a material must be one which is easily pigmented in order to have the desired color contrast and further must have a suitable viscosity to facilitate application to the indentations.
The filling material 50 in a preferred embodiment fills substantially each of the indentations. As is shown in FIG. 2, which depicts the preferred embodiment, an outer surface of the filling material 50 is substantially level with an outer surface of the cable jacket.
It has been found that a commercially available wax modified in accordance with this invention is suitable for filling the indentations. A commercially available wax is modified in a preferred embodiment to have a sufficient amount of pigment constituent to provide a generally white filling for each indentation 33.
Many commercially available waxes were found to be too viscous to be flowed with ease into the indentations 33--33. Accordingly, waxes available on the marketplace must be modified to adjust the viscosity thereof. Of course, the viscosity must not be so low as to drip and thereby cause the filled marking to lack permanance. A suitable indentation filling material 50 was required to be maintained within the indentations 33--33 under environmental testing at temperatures as high as about 85� C. and during abrasion testing, simulating exposure during handling and installation. It has been found that a filling material in a preferred embodiment should have a melt viscosity at a temperature range of about 170�F. to 250� F. which is in the range of about 1000 to 5000 centipoise. A filling material having a viscosity as low as about 200 centipoise may be acceptable. What is important is that the filling material in the preferred embodiment must flow readily in a hot melt application. The viscosity of the filling material 50 may be adjusted by including a wax constituent having a suitable molecular weight.
It has been mentioned that sufficient pigment must be used to cause the filling material to exhibit a generally white color thereby providing a suitable contrast with what generally is a black polyethylene jacket. Care must be taken to strike a balance between two objectives, one of which is the requirement for a contrasting color. The other objective in the preferred embodiment is to have a filling material that flows readily in a hot melt application. Too much pigment may inhibit the flow of the filling material 50. Therefore, the composition of the filling material 50 must include a percent by weight of a pigment constituent which is sufficient to provide a desired color without inhibiting the desired flow characteristics of the filling material.
The invention has been described in terms of a cable which includes a substantially permanent marking system. It should be understood that such a marking system may be applied to substrate portions of many different articles of commerce. Also, although the filling material 50 has been described to be applied to a hot melt application, other materials which may be applied in other processes may be suitable.
In a process for providing the cable 20 with a marking, (see FIG. 3), units of optical fibers 26--26 are formed into a core 22 and moved by a capstan 60 through an extruder 61 whereat a plastic material is provided to form the tubular member 28. Then, the plastic material of the tubular member 28 is cooled in a trough 63 after which strength members 31--31 are provided about the tubular member 28. The plastic jacket 32 is extruded by an extruder 64 over the tubular member and the jacketed cable is advanced through a trough 65 whereat the jacket material is cooled.
Afterwards, a laser 70 is controlled to form indentations 33--33 in the cable jacket to a predetermined depth. The indentations 33--33 are formed in a manner to provide letters and or numerals in accordance with a desired marking. Then a filling material 50 is caused to be disposed by an apparatus 72 in each of the indentations 33--33 to a desired level therein. In a preferred embodiment, the filling material 50 extends to the outer surface of the plastic jacket 32. Then the marked cable is taken up in a takeup arrangement 74.
It is to be understood that the above-described arrangements are simply illustrative of the invention. Other arrangements may be devised by those skilled in the art which will embody the principles of the invention and fall within the spirit and scope thereof.
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