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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1995
Matthew J Fasnacht, Mechanicsburg, PA (US);
Ronald R Schaffer, Harrisburg, PA (US);
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A pedestal (10) for interconnection of fiber optic members (54) of fiber optic cable articles such as cables (52), and especially where the cables have been inserted through routing tubes (36). Routing tubes (36) are secured using arrays of tube holders (30) at several locations, defining routing regions within pedestal (10) along each side of a centrally located fiber splicing region (28). Each tube holder includes a pair of rigid support members (72,74) coextending from a mounting bracket (70) in parallel spaced apart from each other to define a tube receiving slot (66), with elastically compressible inserts (80,82) secured to each rigid support member and spaced slightly from each other along the tube receiving slot (66). The rigid support members (72,74) are latchable together at the entrance of the slot upon insertion of the tubes (36) thereinto. The inserts (80,82) are of a material compressible upon placement of the tubes into the slot (66), enabling each routing tube (36) to be gripped therebetween with sufficient force to assuredly hold it in place even when other routing tubes are being inserted into or removed from the slot (66), without deforming the flexible tubes (36) which would interfere with blowing the fiber optic cables through the routing tubes.