US Patent 7196272 High performance support-separators for communications cables

A high performance communications cable that includes one or more interior support-seperators with clearance channels that include rifled slots along the length of the channels such that the interior support-separator include anvil shaped sections that are trimmed to reduce extensions of the anvil shaped sections, resulting in enlarged channel openings, wherein the corresponding radial and axial axis is skewed and elongated offsetting any conductor pair from another conductor pair within the clearance channels of the communications cable.