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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1979
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
George Ellwood, Harlow, GB;
David G Dalgoutte, Harlow, GB;
Assignee:
International Standard Electric Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B31F / ; B65N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156502 ; 156158 ;
Abstract
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.