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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2018
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Kenneth Duane Billings, Wilmington, NC (US);
Spencer Thomas Kingsbury, Wilmington, NC (US);
Robert Clark Moore, Wilmington, NC (US);
Michael James Todt, Wilmington, NC (US);
Johnnie Edward Watson, Hampstead, NC (US);
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber production system includes an annealing furnace having a furnace inlet, a furnace outlet, and a process tube extending between the furnace inlet and the furnace outlet, the process tube having a process tube wall and a heating zone including at least one heating element. The optical fiber production system also includes a gas distribution assembly fluidly coupled to the furnace outlet and structurally configured to induce gas flow from the gas distribution assembly into the process tube such that gas flows within the process tube in an upflow direction.