Glass manufacturing – Processes – Forming product or preform from molten glass
Patent
1987-09-23
1989-04-11
Lindsay, Robert L.
Glass manufacturing
Processes
Forming product or preform from molten glass
65 42, 65 13, C03B 37025
Patent
active
048203220
ABSTRACT:
Method and apparatus are provided for overcladding a preform rod (22). The preform rod is aligned with and inserted into an overcladding tube (30). The outer diameter of the preform rod and the inner diameter of the tube are such that the clearance between the tube and the rod does not exceed a predetermined value. Successive increments of length of the tube and rod therein are subjected to a controlled zone of heat while the pressure inside the tube is maintained at a value which is substantially less than that outside the tube. This causes the tube to be collapsed onto the preform rod to provide an overclad preform and subsequently a drawn optical fiber in which the overcladding is substantially concentric with respect to the optical fiber core.
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Baumgart Jerry W.
D'Annessa Anthony T.
Flegal William M.
Geyling Franz T.
Miller Thomas J.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company AT&T Bell Laboratories
AT&T - Technologies, Inc.
Lindsay Robert L.
Somers Edward W.
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