Patent ID: 7149403

Claim:
An assembly for sealingly enclosing a space into which one or more optical fibres and/or optical cables is or are fed, the assembly comprising: a container defining the space, the container having an opening therein; and a sealing member sealingly enclosing the one or more optical fibres and/or optical cables and being positionable distinctly and separately from the container, wherein the sealing member (a) can be placed in the opening so that the one or more optical fibres and/or optical cables extend through the opening into the container, and (b) can be heat and/or pressure sealed to the container to seal the opening around the one or more optical fibres and/or optical cables; wherein the sealing member comprises sealing strips and wherein the one or more optical fibres and/or cables extend substantially transversely to a longitudinal direction of the scaling strips.