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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1996
Akihiro Kanao, Kameyama, JP;
The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for manufacturing an optical fiber preform, comprising a reaction vessel housing a core, combustion burners each arranged such that a flame spurting port thereof is positioned within the reaction vessel so as to generate fine glass particles by a flame hydrolysis reaction, and a discharge unit including a discharge port arranged on a side of the reaction; vessel for discharging the excess fine glass particles which were not deposited on the core and the waste gas out of the reaction vessel, wherein an angle formed between an imaginary plane including the flame spurting port of one of the combustion burners and another imaginary plane including the discharge port of the discharge unit falls within a range of between 0.degree. and 40.degree..