Abrasive tool making process – material – or composition – With carbohydrate or reaction product thereof
Patent
1989-01-27
1990-04-10
Olszewski, Robert P.
Abrasive tool making process, material, or composition
With carbohydrate or reaction product thereof
51 73R, 51206R, 51 26, B24B 1500
Patent
active
049148664
ABSTRACT:
An alignment sleeve (66) for holding two conically shaped portions (30--30) of plugs (24--24) each of which terminates an optical fiber (25) includes two conically shaped cavities (68, 70) communicating through a common minimal diameter plane (72). After the sleeve has been molded, a tool (100) faced with an abrasive material is inserted into each cavity of the sleeve and turned rotatably while a force is applied in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tool. This causes material to be removed from the walls defining the cavities so that when the two plugs are inserted into the cavities, the axes of the fibers will be aligned coaxially and the end faces of the fibers will have a predetermined separation. The apparatus of this invention also may be used to adjust a length measurement of plugs. This is accomplished by inserting a plug into a conically shaped cavity of a tool. A wall which defines the cavity of the tool is faced with an abrasive material which upon turning the plug abrades the plug to thereby increase the distance from a reference circumference of the plug to a pedestal (36) in which the free end of the optical fiber terminates.
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Sommers Edward
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