Cable-to-repeater joining device for underwater optical fiber cable
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Dec 30, 1986
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Sep 11, 1984
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Sep 16, 1983
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A device for joining an underwater optical fiber cable and a repeater comprising a fiber feed-in cable, the end of said underwater cable being secured in a jointing block by means of a tapered ferrule and hard-setting resin filler, said device comprising a slack chamber for storing surplus lengths of optical fiber, said slack chamber interior being bounded on the underwater-cable-side by a storage canister having a bulged internal wall the radius of curvature whereof is everywhere greater than or equal to the minimum acceptable radius of curvature for the optical fibers, and on the fiber-feed-cable-side by a plug having a conical internal surface. Device is mainly applicable to the joining of undersea telecommunications cables.
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