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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 22, 1994
Denis E Burek, Cumming, GA (US);
Marc D Jones, Lithonia, GA (US);
Wesley W Jones, Lawrenceville, GA (US);
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A splice tray for holding and protecting optical fiber splices within a splice closure is adapted to be mounted on support members within the closure. The tray has a longitudinal axis and passages formed therein for holding and guiding the fibers to a splice area of the tray while protecting them from being bent too sharply. A splice holder insert is removably mounted to the splice tray in the splice area, and has a plurality of alternating pass-through channels and splice holding channels extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tray and arrayed across the width of the tray in two such arrays, longitudinally spaced from each other. In one embodiment, each of the splice holding channels is defined by a wall of a pass-through channel and a longitudinally extending a resilient member. In this embodiment, resilient fiber holder is located at each end of each pass-through channels. In another embodiment, the splice holding channels are defined by U-shaped end members at each end of the channel.