Process and apparatus for degreasing a fiber-optic cable

Details Process and apparatus for degreasing a fiber-optic cable Process and apparatus for degreasing a fiber-optic cable

1994-02-24

1995-05-23

Bovernick, Rodney B.

Optical waveguides

Miscellaneous

G02B 600, G02B 614

Patent

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054188849

ABSTRACT:
A process for cleaning and in particular degreasing optical fibers (6) emerging from the stripped end of the sheath of a cable (5), surrounding in particular a plurality of such fibers protected by a material based on grease or the like. According to the invention, this process consists in utilizing a liquid solvent (13) applied to the external surface of the fiber in the form of a foam, composed of a mixture of solvent and air, increasing the contact surface of the fiber and the solvent. The subject of the invention is also an apparatus for carrying out this process.

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patent: 5268035 (1993-12-01), Neubauer et al.
patent: 5268036 (1993-12-01), Neubauer et al.
Abstract only of Soviet Union 1,733,127; Dec. 1989.
Abstract only of Japan 0619585; Jan. 1986.

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