Corning Cable Systems

Siecor Corporation

Bruce E Townsend

Warren Welborn McAlpine

Bradley Jerome Blazer

George Cornelius Abernathy

Donald Kennedy Hall

Harriet G Cooke

Kevin T White

Timothy F Summers

Thomas Mueller

Charles DeMasters, Iii

Mary Ann Clarke

A fiber optic cable product is provided that includes a strength member and an elongate cable core surrounding and mechanically coupled to the strength member. The cable core defines a number of lengthwise extending slots for receiving optical fibers and a number of voids proximate the strength member that also typically extend lengthwise therethrough. The fiber optic cable product is therefore relatively lightweight and flexible. In order to insure that the mechanical properties of the fiber optic cable product are uniform, the cable core typically defines the voids in a generally symmetrical manner about the central strength member. A method and an apparatus for extruding a fiber optic cable product that includes a cable core defining a plurality of voids are also disclosed.

Fiber optic cable product and associated fabrication method and apparatus

A fiber optic cable (40,50) having a cellularized cable component (10,10',10'), the cellularized cable component including at least one optical fiber and a cable jacket (45,55). The cable jacket can include surface irregularities (46,56) having crests and hollows (46a,46b;56a,56b) for reducing surface-to-surface contact with a surface (60) in the cable passage way. The cable jacket can include a friction reducing additive for lubricating the interface between the cable jacket and the cable passageway or objects in the cable passageway. A method and apparatus for producing the cables is also disclosed.

Fiber optic cable for installation in a cable passageway and methods and

A method for centering a crosshead extrusion die to a tip by fixing the positions of the tip and die while a sizing probe is inserted into the tip and die.

Tip and die centering method

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Hickory, NC, United States of America

Bruce E Townsend