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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5467968
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08000723

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An apparatus for installing optical fibres (11) in tubes or ducts (29). An optical fibre is fed from a reel (13) into a small diameter feed portion of duct (25), and compressed air is introduced into the duct. This advances the fibre, using viscous drag forces, into a main duct of larger diameter. There is a pressure drop at the intersection of the two ducts. Subsequently, the advancement of the fibre is continued by maintaining the air supply, and the viscous drag forces, acting on the increasing length of the fibre in the duct, advance it along the duct. Two or more fibres, which may be unsheathed primary coated fibres, may be installed simultaneously.

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BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANYLONDON EC1A 7AJ

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Freeman, Robert A Ipswich, GB2 8 154
Proud, Nicholas W Needham Market, GB2 2 48

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