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Optical fiber splicing station
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Inventors: Bossard, Ronald G.;
Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (St. Paul, MN)
Primary Examiner: Healy; Brian
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Griswold; Gary L., Kirn; Walter N., Musgrove; Jack V.
An optical fiber splicing station includes a base having a vise for releasably securing a splice management device, such as a splice tray, and means for removably mounting one or more different fiber optic splicing tools. The splicing station provides a compact, portable platform which facilitates installation of the splice, particularly in difficult locations such as aerial or buried closures, and high-density environments. The base further has means for receiving an optical fiber cleaver at one of several different locations, to accommodate placement of the splicing tool, or simply for user convenience. Means may also be provided to mount the base to a splice case, tripod, or splicing rig support. Torsional stress, which might otherwise be induced on the fibers during installation of the splice onto the splice management device, is minimized by positioning the device close to the splicing tool, and by orienting the lengthwise direction of the device with the direction of the fibers which are held by the splice tool (on the base) during the splice operation. After a splice has been actuated, it may be removed from the tool and placed on the device in a single step, and the torsional stress is distributed evenly over the final coil of slack fiber stored in the device, with no opposing torsional stresses developed in the spliced fiber coils. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides an optical fiber splicing station generally comprising a base having an upper surface, a fiber splicing tool removably attached to the upper surface of the base, and means for releasably affixing a splice management device, such as a splice tray or organizer, to the upper surface of the base.
The base may be designed to secure one of two or more different splicing tools, such as a tool for actuating discrete optical splices and another tool for actuating multi-fiber splices.
The base further preferably has means for receiving an optical fiber cleaver at one of several different locations, to accommodate placement of the splicing tool, or simply for user convenience.
Means may also be provided to mount the base to a splice case, tripod, or splicing rig support.
The splice management device may be affixed to the base by a vise-like mechanism comprising a bar slidably mounted along a cutout formed in the base, and a threaded rod engaging a hole in the bar, the rod being rotatably mounted to the base at one end and extending generally along the cutout such that rotating the rod causes the bar to slide.
One or more stop members are fixed to the base, and one or more stop members are formed on the bar.
In this manner, when a knob attached to the rod is twisted and the bar moves toward the tightened position, the stop members on the bar forcibly urge the device toward the fixed stop members until the device is securely held between the stops.
The stops may include spacers which provide a clearance between the upper surface of the base and the lower surface of the splice management device, to accommodate any downwardly-directed projections on the device.
Torsional stress, which might otherwise be induced on the fibers during installation of the splice onto the splice management device, is minimized with the optical fiber splicing station of the present invention by positioning the device close to the splicing tool, and by orienting the lengthwise direction of the device with the direction of the fibers which are held by the splice tool (on the base) during the splice operation
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