Tool unit for collective breaking of optical fibres

Details Tool unit for collective breaking of optical fibres Tool unit for collective breaking of optical fibres

1981-07-29

1983-12-06

Yost, Frank T.

Severing by tearing or breaking

Breaking or tearing apparatus

Combined with preliminary weakener or with nonbreaking cutter

225 2, 225 965, C03B 3716

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044188552

ABSTRACT:
The end faces of a plurality of parallel optical fibers are all located in one plane at right angles to the general direction of the fibers after simultaneous cutting by a tool unit comprising a sliding shoe which carries a cutting-tool support. During translational displacement of the shoe, the cutting edge of the tool scores each optical fiber in turn. A flat, parallel array of fibers is stretched tangentially to the top generator-line of a bearing cylinder and held in position between two clamping members on each side of the bearing line. At the level of the notch formed in the glass fiber by scoring, each optical fiber is split in transverse cross-section by applying an abrupt tensile stress or flexural deformation to the fiber.

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patent: 4168026 (1979-09-01), Lukas et al.
patent: 4257546 (1981-03-01), Benasutti
patent: 4315584 (1982-02-01), Wuestner

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