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AssigneeGKN Westland Helicopters Limited
InventorsJason Paul Crocker, Nigel Saunders
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An apparatus for performing a polishing operation on a fiber of a fiber optic cable in a cable termination, including means to receive the termination with the fiber extending therefrom towards a polishing surface, an operating means to bring the extending fiber and the polishing surface together, means to move the polishing surface relative to the termination and the fiber with the fiber and polishing surface in contact, to perform polishing of the fiber, characterized in that the operating means includes a manually operable member which is pivotal about a pivot axis, and means to bring the extending fiber and polishing surface together in response to pivoting movement of the manually operable member in a direction transverse to the pivot axis.
An apparatus for performing a polishing operation on a fibre of a fibre optic cable in a cable termination, the apparatus including means to receive the termination with the fibre extending therefrom towards a polishing surface, an operating means to bring the extending fibre and the polishing surface together, means to move the polishing surface relative to the termination and the fibre with the fibre and polishing surface in contact, to perform polishing of the fibre, wherein the operating means includes a manually operable member which is pivotal about a pivot axis, and means to bring the extending fibre and polishing surface together in response to pivoting movement of the manually operable member in a direction transverse to the pivot axis.
A method of performing a polishing operation on a fibre of a fibre optic cable in a termination of the cable utilising a portable hand held apparatus including means to receive the termination with the fibre extending therefrom towards a polishing surface, an operating means to bring the extending fibre and the polishing surface together, means to move the polishing surface relative to the termination and the fibre with the fibre and polishing surface in contact, to perform polishing of the fibre, wherein the method comprises manually operating a manually operable member by pivoting the member about a pivot axis to bring the extending fibre and polishing surface together.
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