A new 132,000-volt cable joint

D. W. Roper: Mr. Simons has introduced several new points in cable-joint design for which he should receive due credit. We have used a few of these joints in Chicago. In making up the joints, the cable splicers and the engineers who were supervising the construction, had occasion to suggest one comparatively minor change which they thought would improve the joint. The change was not acted upon or received with any great degree of enthusiasm and we did not urge it. However, in giving some further thought to the subject and in looking over some of the patents that have been issued on joints to others, we discovered that the suggestion which we had made for a change in this particular joint was covered by a patent issued to another individual, and controlled by another manufacturer.