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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Franco Cocchini, Cava Dei Tirreni, IT;
Antonio Schiaffo, Salerno, IT;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 2/502 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 2/502 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for forming a optical fiber (,) which includes a furnace (,) for softening an optical fiber blank (,); a tractor (,) for drawing the optical fiber (,) from the softened optical fiber blank (,); and a first applicator (,) for applying a coating of a first coating material to the optical fiber (,), the first applicator having a rotatable die.