Patent ID: 6167584
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B08B,B25B,G02B

Abstract:
A cleaning tool for cleaning optical fibers, the cleaning tool comprising: a base part including two elastic tweezer legs joined at first ends of the tweezer legs and having free second ends located opposite each other and at some distance from each other, two first pads for holding cleaning liquid to moisten surfaces of an optical fiber, and two second pads for wiping the surfaces of the optical fiber, thereby removing dirt and removing and absorbing cleaning liquid to make the surface of the optical fiber dry after passing the second pad, the two first pads and the two second pads arranged to form pairs, each pair comprising an individual one of the first pads and an individual one of the second pads, the pads of each pair attached to inner, opposite surfaces of the free end of an individual one of the tweezer legs, so that the two first pads are located opposite each other and the two second pads are located opposite each other and so that in use the free second ends of the tweezer legs can be moved towards each other to make an optical fiber moved between the free second ends come in contact with the first and second pads, so that surfaces of each optical fiber first come in contact with the first pad of each pair and thereafter with the second pad of each pair.