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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 1981
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1979
Lonnie B Bloodworth, Jr, Tucker, GA (US);
Christian Scholly, Atlanta, GA (US);
Thomas L Williford, Jr, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
Western Electric Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A transition device (10) is provided to facilitate the forming of a lightguide ribbon cable unit (22) from a plurality of individual insulated light conductors (24). The light conductors (24), which each include a light-conductive glass fiber (12) surrounded by an inner layer (14) of insulation and an outer layer (16) of insulation, are mounted into converging channels (44) of the transition device (10), such that portions of the glass fibers which have been stripped of insulation extend from an exit end (50) of the device arranged in a parallel side-by-side array between two strips of pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes (18 and 20) to form the ribbon cable unit (22). The assembled transition device (10), ribbon cable unit (22) and light conductors (24) produce an optical fiber assembly (93).