Tube slitting tool for accessing optical fibers in a buffer tube

Details Tube slitting tool for accessing optical fibers in a buffer tube Tube slitting tool for accessing optical fibers in a buffer tube

1994-09-26

1995-08-22

Payer, Hwei Siu

Cutlery

Means for cutting elongate, strand-encircling sheath

Longitudinally

30 904, 81 94, H02G 112

Patent

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054435366

ABSTRACT:
A tube slitting tool for cutting a buffer tube and allowing access to one or more individual optical fibers or ribbons containing optical fibers encased therein, includes a first holder and a second holder in slidable contact with one another, each holder having a channel which when said holders engage forms a passageway therebetween to receive the buffer tube. Cutting blades are mounted to the holders and extend into the passageway such that when the fully-engaged tube slitting tool moves relative to the buffer tube, the tube is cut longitudinally, facilitating access to the optical fibers or the ribbons within the buffer tube.

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