Corning Incorporated
PARTICLE EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR OPTICAL FIBER DRAW FURNACE

Abstract:

According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a reclaim cylinder includes: a single housing (60) coupled to a fiber draw furnace system, the housing defining a reclaim chamber 64, a plurality of gas reclaim ports (68) spaced equidistant from each other and tangentially coupled to the housing, a gas sampling port (52) tangentially or perpendicularly coupled to the housing, and a particle sampling port (54) tangentially or perpendicularly coupled to the housing.