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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2013
Applicant:
Ccs Technology, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Inventor:
Waldemar Stöcklein, Coburg, DE;
Assignee:
CCS TECHNOLOGY, INC., Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/44 (2006.01); B29C 47/88 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 6/4479 (2013.01); B29C 47/88 (2013.01); G02B 6/44 (2013.01); G02B 6/4485 (2013.01); G02B 6/4401 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49829 (2015.01);
Abstract
A manufacturing line includes an extruder and a dynamic caterpuller system located after the extruder along the manufacturing line. During manufacturing, a fiber optic assembly is produced, where the fiber optic assembly includes a tube containing at least on optical fiber. The tube is extruded via the extruder and loaded via the dynamic caterpuller, which includes a closed pipe through which passes a liquid and the fiber optic assembly. The flow rate of the liquid is different than the speed of the fiber optic assembly through the pipe such that drag is imparted on the fiber optic assembly by the liquid.