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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2011
Denis E. Burek, Cumming, GA (US);
Paul R. Dickinson, Johns Creek, GA (US);
John George, Cumming, GA (US);
Daniel Hendrickson, Roswell, GA (US);
Willard C. White, Suwannee, GA (US);
Joseph E. Bradley, Newfields, NH (US);
Adam Gregg Malofsky, Loveland, OH (US);
Bernard Miles Malofsky, Bloomfield, CT (US);
William H. Mann, Hopkinton, NH (US);
Denis E. Burek, Cumming, GA (US);
Paul R. Dickinson, Johns Creek, GA (US);
John George, Cumming, GA (US);
Daniel Hendrickson, Roswell, GA (US);
Willard C. White, Suwannee, GA (US);
Joseph E. Bradley, Newfields, NH (US);
Adam Gregg Malofsky, Loveland, OH (US);
Bernard Miles Malofsky, Bloomfield, CT (US);
William H. Mann, Hopkinton, NH (US);
OFS Fitel, LLC, Norcross, GA (US);
Abstract
An optical fiber is permanently routed easily, quickly, and unobtrusively at a customer premises using an inventive hand tool, without staples or other fasteners. The fiber has an adhesive outer coating that is activated as the fiber is applied by the tool on an exposed surface such as a wall, ceiling, molding, groove, or corner at the premises. When the activated coating hardens, the fiber is bonded to the surface on which it was applied, and the hardened coating also provides physical protection for the fiber. In the disclosed embodiment, the coated fiber is supplied on a spool that mounts on the tool, and the coating is activated by guiding the fiber as it unwinds from the spool through a chamber containing an activating substance. The fiber with the activated coating is then guided to an applicator wheel on the tool which applies the fiber to the surface.