3m Innovative Properties Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

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3m Innovative Properties

Kenneth D Rebers

William Vogel Dower

Sergio A Alarcon

William J Seim

Thomas S Croft

Russell P Smith

Daniel G Lee

Alan J Oshinski

Jacqueline J Pulido

Kwang H Chu

Charles H Dodgen

Dean C Krenz

Joe T Minarovic

William George Allen

Rutesh D Parikh

George J Knox

Mark M Rutenbeck

Thomas E Bludau

Laszlo Markos

Joseph M Van Allen

Dennis A Burgess

George W Parrett

Lazlo Markos

Franklin S Sanders, Jr

Richard L Miklos

Udaya P Kumar

An inlet device is described for inserting a cable containing optical fibers into a telecommunications enclosure. The inlet device includes a housing with a strength member securing section configured to fasten at least one strength member to the housing. The inlet device further includes a fiber guide device. The inlet device may be used in a single fiber optical cable assembly or multi-fiber optical cable assembly. A method for preparing a cable assembly is also described. A telecommunications enclosure including an inlet device is also described.

Optical fiber cable inlet device and telecommunications enclosure system

A concave housing is provided having an open face and having several circumferential perimeter portions adjacent the open face of the housing. An elastomeric film can be mounted on the circumferential perimeter portions of the concave housing across the open face of the concave housing. The elastomeric film can be adapted to interface one or more cables when the cables are positioned within the housing to seal the cables from environmental conditions.

Sealing apparatus

A closure housing includes several housings. At least one of the housings is a concave housing with an open face. At least one layer, such as for example an elastomeric film or conformable sealant, is mounted on a circumferential perimeter portion of the concave housings across the open face of each of the concave housings. At least one layer, such as an elastomeric film, is adapted to interface one or more cables when the cables are interposed between the housings.

Closure housing for sealing

A method is provided for making a closure housing for sealing. The method includes forming a plurality of housings. At least one of the housings is formed as a concave housing with an open face. The method also includes aligning one or more layers, such as for example an elastomeric film or conformable selant, on one or more of the concave housings in a substantially planar configuration across a circumferential perimeter of the open face of each of the concave housings. The method also includes securing the elastomeric films on the circumferential perimeter of the open face of each of the concave housings. The elastomeric films are adapted to interface one or more cables when the cables are interposed between the elastomeric films on the housings.

Method of making closure housing for sealing

A closure housing includes a plurality of housings. At least one of the housings is a concave housing with an open face. At least one layer, such as for example an elastomeric film, surrounds one or more cables to define one or more wrapped cables. A portion of each of the wrapped cables is adapted to be interposed between the housings.

Closure with wrapped cable

A universal aerial hanger for supporting an aerial telecommunications device used with telecommunication lines. The hanger includes a panel, a shoulder extending from the panel, and at least one arm extending from the panel. The panel includes a mounting surface for attachment to the aerial telecommunications device and an exterior surface opposite the mounting surface. The shoulder extends from the panel toward the mounting surface and includes a plurality of latch receptors and at least one reinforced bracket mounting area.

Universal aerial hanger

An aerial terminal for use with telecommunication lines suspended from a strand is disclosed. The aerial terminal includes at least one hanger and a terminal box. The hanger(s) defines a panel and a shoulder extending from the panel, the shoulder including a plurality of latch receptors. The terminal box includes a base and a lid. The lid is movably coupled to the base between an open position and a closed position and includes at least one latch. In this regard, upon assembly, the terminal box is joined to the panel such that the latch(es) of the lid mate with at least one of the plurality of latch receptors of the shoulder when the lid is in the open position.

Aerial telecommunications terminal and system

A terminal box for use with telecommunication lines. The terminal box includes a base and a lid. The base is a molded double wall structure defining a substantially hollow core. The base includes opposing top and bottom walls and opposing end walls, and a back wall extending between the top and bottom walls and the end walls. The lid is movably coupled to the top wall. A portion of at least one of the opposing end walls defines a compressed single wall region forming a telecommunication line port.

Terminal box

A cable splice closure includes a closure body having mating surfaces sealed together. An end seal in the closure has an opening for receiving a cable. The end seal is sealed to the closure body by an adhesive bond. An adhesive injection port in the end seal. The port is provided to communicate an adhesive injected into the end seal to bond surfaces of the end seal and the cable to be received, into a sealed unit. The adhesive is a low surface energy adhesive based on acrylic monomers with organoborane are complexes.

Cable closure injection sealed with organo borane amine complex

A threaded fastener retention device includes a housing having a retainer aperture formed therein and tab retainers adjacent the aperture. A resilient retainer is movably mounted in the aperture. The retainer includes a body having tabs for engaging the tab retainers and fastener gripping members for engaging the threads of the fastener and retaining the fastener in the housing.

Movable retention device for a threaded fastener

An end seal for a cable splice closure includes a core portion having a slot for receiving a cable. A tail portion, extending from the core portion, is of sufficient length and flexibility to be extended over the slot. An adhesive injection port is provided in the core portion to communicate an adhesive injected into the injection port to the slot to bond into a sealed unit the surfaces of the end seal and the cable to be received. The adhesive is a low surface energy adhesive based on acrylic monomers with organoborane amine complexes.

Cable closure injection sealed with organoborane amine complex

A cable splice closure includes a closure body having mating surfaces sealed together. An end seal in the closure has an opening for receiving a cable. The end seal is sealed to the closure body by an adhesive bond. An adhesive injection port is provided in the end seal to communicate an adhesive injected into the end seal and to bond into a sealed unit the surf aces of the end seal and the cable to be received. The adhesive is a low surface energy adhesive based on acrylic monomers with organoborane amine complexes.

Cable closure injection sealed with low surface energy adhesive

An external ground isolation connector for use with a cable splice closure includes a housing having a keyed bore formed therein. A ground stud is keyed for extending through the bore in the housing so as to limit rotation of the stud within the housing. The ground stud has a first end for extending into an associated cable closure for connection to an internal ground wire, and a second end for extending externally of the cable closure for connection to an external ground wire. A port is formed in the housing for receiving the external ground wire. The first end of the ground stud is provided to be sealed with the housing and the closure and the second end of the ground stud is provided to be sealed with the housing.

External ground isolation connector for cable splice closures

An article such as a conduit or cable, or a splice closure for a cable, is provided with improved resistance to animal damage by applying a layer of abrasive material to the article. The abrasive material is not only sufficiently hard and thick to act as a physical barrier, but its abrasive nature creates such a harsh, unpleasant grating effect that the animal tends to not attack it at all. The preferred embodiments of the article use either a plurality of granules to form the abrasive material, or a mesh substrate having an abrasive coating thereon. The material should have an effective grit value of no more than 325, and preferably no more than 100. The abrasive material may be applied using an adhesive or, where the conduit/closure is a thermoplastic polymer, various methods are provided for embedding the abrasive material in the polymeric wall.

Splice closure with animal protection

An aerial terminal for telecommunication wires is preferably blow-molded, and includes a closure for the in-line splices to a cable and a housing for the drop wire connectors can be mounted together, with the housing mounted on the side of the splice closure so both the interior of the closure and the drop wire connectors are readily accessible from one side.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Kenneth D Rebers