Method for installing an optical fibre unit in a tube
AssigneePrysmian S.p.A.
InventorsFabio Abbiati, Ian James Griffiths, Arnaud Le Dissez
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Abstract
A method for installing an optical fiber unit in a protective tube housing a pulling rope includes the steps of: providing a mini tube having a longitudinal opening from end to end; transversally inserting a portion of the pulling rope in the longitudinal opening; contacting the pulling rope and optical fiber unit over a predetermined length; slipping the mini tube over at least a portion of the contacting length of the pulling rope and optical fiber unit; crimping the mini tube around the pulling rope and optical fiber unit; and drawing the optical fiber unit through the protective tube by pulling the pulling rope.
Claims10
A method for installing an optical fibre unit in a protective tube housing a pulling rope comprising:
- providing a mini tube having a longitudinal opening from end to end;
- transversally inserting a portion of the pulling rope not contacting the optical fibre unit in said longitudinal opening;
- contacting the pulling rope and optical fibre unit over a predetermined length;
- slipping the mini tube from the portion of the pulling rope not contacting the optical fibre unit toward the optical fibre unit over at least a portion of a contacting length of the pulling rope and optical fibre unit;
- crimping the mini tube around the pulling rope and optical fibre unit;
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- drawing the optical fibre unit through the protective tube by pulling the pulling rope.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.