公开(公告)号：CA2970167A1

公开(公告)日：2016-06-23

申请号：CA2970167

申请日：2015-12-18

Applicant: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC

Inventor： MULLANEY JULIAN S ,  ALSTON ERIC EMMANUEL ,  CARRICO WILLIAM ALAN ,  GRONVALL ERIK J ,  TERRYLL KATHLEEN

IPC: B65H55/04 ,  B65D85/04 ,  B65H49/02 ,  B65H75/02 ,  G02B6/46 ,  H01B7/40

Abstract: Packaged dispensers mountable to optical network terminals (ONT) are disclosed. In some examples, the dispensers include coreless wound coils and excess storage areas. Additionally, fiber optic cable distribution systems and methods thereof utilizing the disclosed coreless wound coils are further disclosed. In one example, a length of telecommunications cable is wound into a coreless coil that includes a plurality of winding separators at least partially embedded within the coil, wherein the length of telecommunications cable alternately passes on one of the first and second sides of one winding separator and on the other of the first and second sides of an adjacent winding separator. In one example, an initially cylindrically shaped coreless wound coil, with or without winding separators, can be placed into a non-round package in which the wound coil is deformed and compressed by the sidewalls of the package such that the coreless wound coil conforms to the interior perimeter of the package to have a non-cylindrical shape.