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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles J Brown, Harlow Essex, GB;
Richard K Jones, Bishop's Stortford, GB;
Assignee:
STC PLC, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385 59 ; 385100 ;
Abstract
A joint assembly for an underwater optical fibre cable provides a limited-movement sliding clamp arrangement for the kingwire ends (9, 11). The sea casing provides the main tensile strength member of the joint and a split liner provides the main compressive strength of the joint. Tapered clamps (22, 12, 27) are incorporated into bulkheads of the joint assembly and coupled with ring nuts which screw into the sea casing and cause the bulkhead to abut the split liner. First and second parallel storage plates (1,5) store excess fibre and fibre splices.