Optical waveguides – Accessories – Splice box and surplus fiber storage/trays/organizers/ carriers
Patent
1991-03-22
1992-03-17
Gonzalez, Frank
Optical waveguides
Accessories
Splice box and surplus fiber storage/trays/organizers/ carriers
G02B 636
Patent
active
050975293
ABSTRACT:
An optical fiber cable closure (20) includes a cable termination assembly (26) and a cover (28) into which the termination assembly is inserted. The cable termination assembly includes an end plate assembly (34) through which distribution cables (21,22) to be spliced extend. From the end plate is cantilevered a distribution portion (106) which supports an optical fiber organizer (115). Mounted on the fiber organizer adjacent to a longitudinal edge thereof are a plurality of stacked organizing modules (120,120). Each module includes a plurality of nests (134-134) for receiving splicing devices such that the axes of the fibers in the devices are parallel to each other and to an axis of the closure. Optical fibers from each incoming cable are routed in individual bundles or as ribbons from the distribution portion to selected ones of the modules. The stacked organizing modules are held spaced above the fiber organizer to allow fiber to become routed therebetween thereby allowing a radius of curvature which exceeds that if the fiber had been routed between the stack of modules and an opposite longitudinal edge.
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Cobb Gary S.
Dunn Lawrence R.
Evers Melvin W.
Jones Wesley W.
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Gonzalez Frank
Somers Edward W.
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