Optical fiber cleaner

Details Optical fiber cleaner Optical fiber cleaner

1989-09-08

1991-10-15

Moore, Chris K.

Brushing, scrubbing, and general cleaning

Machines

With air blast or suction

15308, 153091, B08B 704

Patent

active

050561855

ABSTRACT:
An optical fiber (12) being removed from a storage spool (14) for winding onto a canister (20) passes through a housing formed from separable parts (22, 24). A chamber (34) within the housing has a nozzle (40) connected to a supply of a cleaning solvent and directs a spray of the solvent onto the moving fiber. Another version locates a further nozzle (46) within the housing directing a pressurized air stream on the fiber to dry the solvent as well as remove foreign particulate matter from the fiber. Yet another version has brushes (50, 52) within the housing that the fiber moves against to aid in removing particulate matter from the fiber surface.

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patent: 2674112 (1954-04-01), Jones
patent: 3044098 (1962-07-01), Stalson
patent: 3270364 (1966-09-01), Steele
patent: 3518713 (1970-07-01), Krause
patent: 3530526 (1970-09-01), Schmidt
patent: 3882568 (1975-05-01), Hil
patent: 4391016 (1983-07-01), Kawamura et al.

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