Patent ID: 9079370
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: B29C,B29D,G02B

Abstract:
1. A method for manufacturing a fiber optic cable, the method comprising: extruding an outer jacket having an elongated transverse cross-sectional profile defining a major axis and a minor axis that meet at a lengthwise axis of the fiber optic cable, the elongated transverse cross-sectional profile having a width that extends along the major axis and a thickness that extends along the minor axis, the width of the elongated transverse cross-sectional profile being longer than the thickness of the elongated transverse cross-sectional profile, the outer jacket also defining a fiber passage that extends through the outer jacket along a lengthwise axis of the outer jacket, the outer jacket further defining first and second reinforcing member passages positioned on opposite sides of the fiber passage; feeding an optical fiber ribbon into the fiber passage; feeding reinforcing members into the first and second reinforcing member passages, a first set of the reinforcing members aligned with the first reinforcing member passage and a second set of the reinforcing members aligned with the second reinforcing member passage; and paying-off the first set and the second set of the reinforcing members from a single spool section as a physically combined set of the reinforcing members and thereby applying uniform tension to the first set and the second set of the reinforcing members.