B - Operations – Transporting – 32 – B
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
32
B
26/197, 88/97
B32B 5/00 (2006.01) B32B 5/08 (2006.01) G02B 6/44 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1151857
METHODS OF AND APPARATUS FOR ORGANIZING FIBER LIGHTGUIDES INTO A PLANAR ARRAY Abstract of the Disclosure In order to organize a plurality of fiber lightguides into a planar array, so that they can be bonded together between two tapes to form a ribbon, the fiber lightguides are payed out from individual supply spools and advanced toward a takeup. Interposed between the supply spools and the takeup is at least one surface past which the lightguides are advanced and which is effective to organize them contiguously into a single layer array. The surface is made with a curvature which is convex in the direction of advance of the fiber lightguides and which is concave in a direction transverse to the direction of advance. The single layer array is advanced past and in engagement with another surface which reforms the array into a planar configuration after which the lightguides are bonded together to form the ribbon. A plurality of the ribbons may be formed into a stack which comprises a core of an optical communication cable and which lends itself to group-splicing techniques.
330821
Eichenbaum Bernard R.
Topolski Francis J.
Kirby Eades Gale Baker
Western Electric Company Incorporated
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