The present apparatus and method make it extremely easy for a worker, even when located in a manhole or on a telephone pole, to rapidly achieve a perfect break in an optical fiber and at a precisely predetermined position relative to a connector means. The breaking is the same, regardless of the upright,...http://www.google.fr/patents/US4229876?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US4229876 - Optical fiber breaker and method, and combination breaker and optical connector
Optical fiber breaker and method, and combination breaker and optical connector