A frame is provided for relieving stress on a cable splice. The frame includes a pair of rails spaced apart to accommodate a splice enclosure. At least one mounting plate is coupled to spaces of the rails for detachably mounting the splice enclosure. A strain relief is coupled to the rails for receiving a cable and isolating the weight of the cable from a splice of the cable disposed within the splice enclosure.
The invention provides a cable fitting which receives light waveguide cables, which are supported by high-voltage overhead lines, or their light waveguide splices and excess lengths. The light waveguide cables are secured to a ground cable or a phase cable of a high-voltage overhead line by a bracket and are decoupled from the high-voltage via an insulator on a down-lead to the cable fitting.
A frame is provided for coiling the surplus length of an overhead cable when two cable sections are spliced in a splicing box. The frame is particularly adapted to be used with Optical Fiber Composite Ground Wires (OPGW) and has a coiling chamber for the coiling of the surplus splice length. The coiling chamber has an interior in which the surplus splice length is coiled, and an outer edge, allowing the free rotation of the frame about a shaft. The surplus splice length is pushed from underneath by an operator and is further pushed and held by its own restoring force against the outer edge of the coiling chamber, where the pushing and holding effects induce the rotation of the frame.
An enclosure (10) for temporarily housing a fiber cable splice includes upper and lower halves (14,12) that may be repeatably separated to expose a splice block (20) enclosed therein. The enclosure allows for an interrupted fiber splice arrangement to be securely stored without causing damage to any exposed optical fibers. The bare fibers are disposed in the lower half of the enclosure next to the splice block and held to prevent movement. A pair of grommets (28,30) are inserted in either end of the enclosure to prevent the introduction of water (or any foreign material) into the housing.
A device and method are provided to relieve strain in a plurality of optical ribbon fibers. In one embodiment, a tray has two sidewalls defining a passageway therebetween for receiving a grommet. The grommet defines a channel sized for receiving therethrough the plurality of optical ribbon fibers in a stacked arrangement. A compression clip fits over the grommet to compress the grommet proximal the channel the compress the optical ribbon fibers against each other in the stack.
