Fiber optic loose tube buffer to fan-out tube adapter system

Details Fiber optic loose tube buffer to fan-out tube adapter system Fiber optic loose tube buffer to fan-out tube adapter system

1994-09-20

1995-12-05

Healy, Brian

Optical waveguides

With disengagable mechanical connector

Optical fiber/optical fiber cable termination structure

385 86, 385 76, 385 77, 385100, 385109, 385136, 385137, G02B 636

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054737184

ABSTRACT:
An adapter system protects optical fibers transitioning from a close-pack nfiguration within a rigid loose tube buffer to a fanned-out configuration using fan-out tube assemblies. Each fan-out tube assembly includes a hollow furcation tube surrounded firstly by a stranded strength member and secondly by an outer jacket surrounding the stranded strength member. The adapter system includes a first sleeve secured to an end of the loose tube buffer, a second sleeve joinable to the first sleeve, a first spacer plate incorporated in the second sleeve, and a second spacer plate maintained within the second sleeve and spaced apart from the first spacer plate. Each optical fiber exits the end of the loose tube buffer and is inserted through a furcation tube from a fan-out tube assembly such that the optical fibers are maintained in a spaced apart configuration when passing through the first and second spacer plates of the adapter system.

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