Patent ID: 7192197

Claim:
An apparatus for cleaning optical fiber connectors, said apparatus comprising: a base layer defining a plurality of recesses; a cleaning layer affixed to said base layer, said cleaning layer suspended above said recesses to provide a plurality of drum-head structures such that said cleaning layer can deform in response to pressure applied by an optical fiber connector; a guide layer affixed to said cleaning layer, said guide layer defining a plurality of guide windows, said plurality of guide windows corresponding in number and position to said recesses defined by said base layer, each of said plurality of guide windows defining a nonlinear path that forces at least one planetary motion to be applied to the optical fiber connector when traveling along said nonlinear path; and a protective layer removably affixed to said guide layer, said protective layer being sectioned into a number of areas corresponding to the number of guide windows, each section of said protective layer being individually removable to expose a single one of said plurality of guide windows.