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AssigneeAtlas Elektronick GmbH
InventorsAxel Brenner, Sonke Huckfeldt, Wilfried Junge, Jurgen Lindner, Dirk Fuhrmann, Ralf Bartholomaus
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The invention relates to a fiberglass spool comprising a self-supporting roll (12) having layers of windings (20) located one above the other of an optical fiber (13) for transmitting data that may be unwound from the interior of the roll outwards, wherein the windings (20) are fixed to one another by means of an adhesive bonding agent. In order to realize a sufficiently stable, self-supporting roll (12) that may be reliably unwound from the inside outwards without loops being pulled out of the roll (12), the roll (12) is structured as a cross-winding and a hydrocarbon-based, salt water-resistant, chemically inert impregnating material that may be liquefied by heating is used as the bonding agent.
Glass-fibre spool having a self-supporting winding (12), which has layers of turns located one on top of the other, of a glass fibre (13) which can be unwound from the winding interior in order to transmit information, whose turns (20) are fixed on one another by means of an adhesive binding agent, characterized in that the winding (12) is in the form of a crossed-over winding, and the binding agent is an impregnation substance which is resistant to seawater, is chemically inert, can be liquefied by heat, and is based on hydrocarbon.
Method for production of a glass-fibre spool having a multilayer, self-supporting winding (12) of a glass fibre (13) for transmission of information which can be unwound from the winding interior, in which the glass fibre (13) is wound onto a winding former to form a winding (12), and the winding former is subsequently removed from the winding (13), characterized in that the winding (12) is wound in a crossed-over configuration and the glass fibre is itself rotated on each turn during the winding process, in that the winding (12), with the winding former left in it, is impregnated with an impregnation substance which is chemically inert, is resistant to seawater, is liquefied by heat and is based on hydrocarbon, in that a predetermined impregnation level of the winding (12) is set by dripping off a portion of the impregnation substance, and in that the winding (12) is cooled down to below its phase transition temperature with the winding former rotating and being aligned horizontally, and the winding former is removed from the cooled-down winding (12).
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