International Standard Electric Corporation

George Ellwood

David G Dalgoutte

To adjust an optical fiber radially in a connector element, the fiber is supported in a tube which is mounted near its mating end on a thin diaphragm with radial adjusting screws at the other end of the tube to rock the tube for adjustment purposes. Thus a relatively coarse screw movement gives fine adjustment to enable the fiber end to be accurately aligned with the fiber end of a mating connector element. The two elements are located with respect to each other by flats on the surface of one element which cooperate with a V-groove in an inner surface of the other element.

Optical fiber connector

An apparatus for splicing a pair of optical fibres by a collapsed tube technique. The fibre ends are mounted on carrier slides with a coupling sleeve placed on one fibre end. A movable heater fuses the sleeve onto the one fibre after which the second fibre is inserted in the sleeve and held in axial alignment with the first fibre while the splice is completed.

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Harlow, United Kingdom

George Ellwood