Pocket fiber optic cleaver

Details Pocket fiber optic cleaver Pocket fiber optic cleaver

1988-09-20

1990-12-11

Phan, Hien H.

Severing by tearing or breaking

Breaking or tearing apparatus

Combined with preliminary weakener or with nonbreaking cutter

225106, C03B 3716

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049763903

ABSTRACT:
In a pocket fiber optic cleaver having an elongated substantially cylindrical body arrayed along a longitudinal body axis, the body having, in longitudinal sequence, a fiber entry port, a cut-length adjusting section, a cleaving area, and a waste fiber exit port, and including a cylindrical bore, concentric with the longitudinal axis for receiving an optical fiber, the improvement wherein the cleaving area comprises: a cleaving pad in the form of a cylindrical section whose longitudinal axis is arrayed orthogonal to the body axis; a spring loaded pivot arm adjacent the cleaving pad, the arm carrying a fiber scoring member and having its pivot point adjacent the exit port, the fiber scoring member being adjacent the cut-length area; and a pressure pad surrounding the scoring member on three sides, the open side facing the cut-length section.

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patent: 4315368 (1982-02-01), Basile
patent: 4618084 (1986-10-01), Andrews et al.
patent: 4644647 (1987-02-01), Szostak et al.

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