Gel sealing device
AssigneeCommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
InventorsRobert Vanhentenrijk, Ronnie Rosa Georges Liefsoens, Pieter De Coster
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Abstract
A gel sealing device includes a gel sealing block (5) which provides a sealing section (22) through which the elongate parts (13, 14) extend. The gel sealing block (5) includes an upper flange (11) and a lower flange (12) with a support section (11a, 12a, 12b) disposed therebetween. The upper and lower flanges (11, 12) sandwiches, in direction of extension of the elongate parts (13, 14), a gel inner ring (7) supported by said support section (2) and a gel outer ring (6, 10a) covering the gel inner ring (7) in a radial direction extending transverse to said extension direction. The gel inner ring (7) and the gel outer ring (6, 10a) are made of a gel sealing material.
Claims12
A gel sealing device for sealing a passage of elongate parts through an opening, the elongate parts including a main cable and a plurality of tubes, the gel sealing device providing a sealing section through which the elongate parts extend, the gel sealing device comprising:
- a housing comprising an upper housing body connected to an upper side of a lower housing body having a tubular shape forming a passage;
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- a gel sealing block having an upper flange and a lower flange with a support section disposed therebetween, wherein the upper and lower flanges sandwich a gel inner ring and a gel outer ring in an axial direction, the gel outer ring covering the gel inner ring in a radial direction, wherein the gel inner ring and the gel outer ring form the sealing section therebetween, wherein the gel inner ring and the gel outer ring form, for each tube in the sealing section, a termination against which a tube end of one of the tubes abuts in its assembled state, each of the gel inner ring and the gel outer ring providing grooves ranging from the lower flange into the sealing section, wherein the grooves of the gel inner ring are aligned with thereto assigned grooves provided with the gel outer ring such that, in an assembled state, the respective assigned grooves have ends in the sealing section that form the termination, wherein each groove is adapted to partially surround the received tube end, and wherein the termination provides a central opening.
A gel sealing device comprising:
- a housing including an upper housing body connected to an upper side of a lower housing body having a tubular shape and forming a passage;
- a gel arrangement within the housing, the gel arrangement having inner and outer gel rings, the inner and outer gel rings forming a sealing section therebetween;
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- fiber tubes carrying optical fibers through the passage, the fiber tubes each having a first end sealed between the inner and outer gel rings, the first end of the fiber tubes terminating part way through the sealing section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.