Tool for preparing optical ribbons

• US 5,160,569 A
• Filed: 08/08/1991
• Issued: 11/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Siecor Technology, Inc. (Corning Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Siecor Corporation (Corning Incorporated)
• Inventors: Bazemore, Jeffrey T., Brogley, Mark E., Ott, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): LINDSAY JR, ROBERT
• Application Number:
  US07/742,415
• Time in Patent Office: 453 Days
• Field of Search: 65/1, 65/11.1, 65/181, 65/4.3, 65/152, 65/156, 65/4.2, 156/178, 156/179, 156/433, 156/439, 269/60, 269/902, 269/903, 269/909
• US Class Current: 156/439
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/4403 with ribbon structure G02B6/4429, G02B6/4439, G02B6/4479 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/448 Ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 269/909 Work holder for specific work

Abstract

Disclosed is a fiber organizing tool having a frame with a channel with narrow raised sidewalls for piercing an adhesive tape to be laid on fibers laid straight in the channel. The optical fibers are arranged in a narrow slot in a member hingedly mounted to the frame.

Claims

1. A tool for fabricating a planar array of optical fibers to be held by adhesive tape, comprising:

a frame having a channel therein for holding parallel optical fibers, said channel set between a pair of rigid sidewalls extending slightly from the channel, said sidewalls being sufficiently narrow to sever adhesive tape to be placed on the optical fibers in the channel when said adhesive tape is pulled away from said sidewalls, and

means for organizing optical fibers into a parallel array for placement into said channel.