Abstract: An optical cable comprises a strength member element and a plurality of buffer tubes, wherein each of the buffer tubes encapsulates at least one optical fiber. The buffer tubes are stranded around the strength member element with subsequent different directions of lay. In order to fix the stranded buffer tubes and to prevent any unwinding of the stranded buffer tubes an adhesive component is disposed in at least one fixing area of the optical cable, the at least one fixing area being a regional area of the optical cable, where sections of the buffer tubes having a different direction of lay adjoin to each other.

Abstract: An optical transmission element comprises a core section including a plurality of optical fibers where each one of the optical fibers is in contact with at least two other optical fibers. The optical transmission element also has a sheath section including a sheath layer surrounding the core section such that the sheath layer is in contact with the optical fibers.

Abstract: An optical cable comprises a plurality of elongate members wherein at least one of the elongate members include at least one optical fiber surrounded by buffer tube. The buffer tube is made of a soft material having a tension at break of less than 7.5 MPa. The elongate members are disposed around a central element. A binder is wrapped around the plurality of elongate members. An outer jacket surrounds the plurality of elongate members.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for forming a sheath over an elongate member comprises an extruder that has an output to supply a melt material having a temperature. A heat exchanger connected downstream the output of the extruder removes heat from the melt material in a controlled manner. An elongate member, which may be a cable core, is supplied to a crosshead that is connected downstream the heat exchanger to surround the elongate member with a sheath of the melt material.

Abstract: An optical transmission element comprises a core section including a plurality of optical fibers where each one of the optical fibers is in contact with at least two other optical fibers. The optical transmission element also has a sheath section including a sheath layer surrounding the core section such that the sheath layer is in contact with the optical fibers.

Abstract: An optical cable comprises a plurality of elongate members wherein at least one of the elongate members include at least one optical fiber surrounded by buffer tube. The buffer tube is made of a soft material having a tension at break of less than 7.5 MPa. The elongate members are disposed around a central element. A binder is wrapped around the plurality of elongate members. An outer jacket surrounds the plurality of elongate members.

Abstract: An optical transmission element has a number of optical waveguides, which are arranged as a bundle and are embedded in a filling composition. The optical waveguides and the filling composition are surrounded by a tube. A material comprising a resin, which for example contains an acrylate enriched with a filler, is used as materials for the tube. By mixing photoinitiators into the material comprising the resin of the tube, the tube material of the tube can be cured by irradiation with ultraviolet light. The use of a material comprising resin in the production of the tube of the optical transmission element allows thin buffering layers to be produced at a high material processing speed.

Abstract: An optical cable comprises a cable core (100) containing at least one optical transmission element (10a, 10b). The cable core (100) is free of filler composition. It contains, as optical transmission elements, a plurality of tight-buffered conductors (10a) or a plurality of bundle conductors (10b) which are arranged around a centrally arranged strain relief element (20). The cable core (100) is surrounded by a sleeve (200), which is extruded or pumped around the cable core. The sleeve layer (200) contains a plastic material with which swellable materials, for example acrylates, are mixed as filler. A cable sheath (300) is extruded around the sleeve layer (200). The swellable filler embedded in the sleeve layer brings about an increase in the volume of the sleeve layer (200) upon contact with water, whereby the cable core (100) is sealed against penetrating moisture.

Abstract: An optical cable (1) comprises a cable sheath (11) and at least two optical transmission elements (101) and (102), which are arranged within the cable sheath (11). One (101) of the optical transmission elements (101) and (102) comprises a buffer tube (1011), at least one optical waveguide (10101) and at least one swelling element (10111). The buffer tube (1011) surrounds the at least one optical waveguide (10101) and the at least one swelling element (10111). The swelling element (10111) comprises a swelling material, which can swell by supplying it with water. If water penetrates into the optical transmission element, the swelling element (10111) swells and seals off the optical transmission element, so that spreading of the water in the longitudinal direction of the optical transmission element is prevented.

Abstract: An optical cable comprises a buffered optical fiber which is arranged within a buffer tube. The buffer tube is extruded around the buffered optical fiber such that a small gap, preferably in a range between about 40 ?m and about 100 ?m, is formed between the buffered optical fiber and the buffer tube. A layer of strength member elements is disposed around the buffer tube. A cable jacket is extruded around the strength member elements wherein the strength member elements are bonded to the cable jacket.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for forming a sheath over an elongate member comprises an extruder that has an output to supply a melt material having a temperature. A heat exchanger connected downstream the output of the extruder removes heat from the melt material in a controlled manner. An elongate member, which may be a cable core, is supplied to a crosshead that is connected downstream the heat exchanger to surround the elongate member with a sheath of the melt material.

Abstract: A device for stranding elongated stranding elements, in which an axially extending supply member has a surface on which stranding elements are fed to a stranding disk. A first suspension device has a first receiving device for holding a first end of the supply member on an input side. A second suspension device has a second receiving device for holding a second end of the supply member on an output side. First and second locking devices respectively mount the first and second receiving devices in the first and second suspension devices, respectively, such that in a release position of a respective locking device, a respective receiving device is completely displaceable in an axial direction for installing or removing the supply member, and such that in a lock position of the respective locking device, the respective receiving device is secured against detachment during operation of the supply member.