Scribe-and-break tool for optical fibers
US5301868A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 26, 1993 |
| Grant date | Apr 12, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 26, 2013 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T225/325
- WIPO fieldOptics
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A scribe-and-break tool for fracturing the free end of an optical fiber that is especially suitable for hand-holdable configurations and field use which has an elongate body with a plunger that is interrelated to a blade for scribing the free end of an optical fiber retained in tension within a depressible head that extends outward from the body and is depressible inward to bring the free end of the optical fiber into contact with the blade, thereby scribing the free end of the fiber causing the free end to break off.
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