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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1993
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1992
Max Penfold, Cambridge, GB;
Bicc plc, , GB;
Abstract
Composite apparatus for preparing and positioning tails of two optical fibers for fusion splicing and for effecting a fusion splice between prepared and appropriately positioned tails comprises optical fiber cleaving apparatus mechanically controlled fusion splicing apparatus optical fiber holding devices and associated transfer arms and a low voltage power source, the cleaving and splicing apparatus, holding devices and associated transfer arms being housed in a casing and the low voltage power source being housed in a casing which is separately formed with respect to the casing. The low voltage power source is electrically connected to the high voltage circuitry of the splicing apparatus by a flexible electric cable. The transfer arms will transfer a holding device from a first operating station in which an optical fiber tail is held normal to the scoring edge of a blade of the cleaving apparatus to a second operating station in which the optical fiber tail is held normal to the common axis of the fusion electrodes of the splicing apparatus and in axial alignment with an optical fiber tail held by the other holding device, the prepared end faces of the aligned optical fibers being disposed between the electrodes.