Reliance Comm/tec Corporation

Peter C Ori

Robert Essert

Optical fiber splicer

A splicer for optical fibers. The splicer is assembled from two polymer body halves. When assembled the body halves function as spring clamps. Internal to the body halves is a metallic splice element which is assembled from two mirror image halves. The polymer body halves and the metallic splice element body halves both include a passageway for the two fibers to be spliced and a passageway for a tool that is used to operate the splicer so that a fiber can be inserted into or removed therefrom. During assembly a portion of the body halves are fused together to provide a unitized construction to the spring clamps. The splicer may be inserted in a panel. A ferrule is used to hold the splicer in the panel.

Polymer spring fiber optic splicer, tool for operating same and panel

A communication cable enclosure having a generally hollow housing, a splice area for splicing and containing cables and a patch area having multiple connectors attached to a patch panel. The multiple connectors attach to the cables at one end and are mounted to the patch panel at another end for interconnecting the cables using patch cables having matingly connectorized ends. The splice area and patch area are positioned on a generally planar top of a common shelf which has at least two side portions. The shelf is slidably retained generally parallelly co-planar the planar top. The shelf and hollow housing have locking pieces for retaining the shelf in predetermined positions along a path which it slidably travels into and out of the hollow body. The locking pieces include a locking protuberance retained on a spring portion which is fixedly retained on the hollow housing, the locking protuberance biasedly projects through a protuberance aperture formed through a side of the hollow body portion for engaging another aperture formed in the side portions of the shelf.

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Chicago, IL, United States of America

Peter C Ori