OPTICAL FIBER INSTALLATION AT CUSTOMER PREMISES

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hand tool that can be used for permanently routing an optical fiber easily, quickly, and unobtrusively at customer premises, without using staples or other fasteners.SOLUTION: A fiber has an adhesive outer coating that is activated as the fiber is applied by a tool...

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Hauptverfasser: BERNARD MILES MALOFSKY, WILLIAM H MANN, DANIEL HENDRICKSON, JOSEPH E BRADLEY, GEORGE JOHN, PAUL R DICKSINSON, ADAM GREGG MALOFSKY, DENIS E BUREK, WILLARD C WHITE
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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hand tool that can be used for permanently routing an optical fiber easily, quickly, and unobtrusively at customer premises, without using staples or other fasteners.SOLUTION: A fiber has an adhesive outer coating that is activated as the fiber is applied by a tool on an exposed surface such as a wall, ceiling, molding, groove, or corner at premises. When the activated coating hardens, the fiber is bonded to the surface on which it was applied, and the hardened coating also provides physical protection for the fiber. In the disclosed embodiment, the coated fiber is supplied on a spool that is mounted on the tool, and the coating is activated by guiding the fiber as it unwinds from the spool through a chamber containing an activating substance. The fiber with the activated coating is then guided to an applicator wheel on the tool which applies the fiber to the surface.