Patent ID: 7711236

Claim:
A fiber optic cable clamp comprising: (a) a sheath grip member; (b) a strength member clamp maintained at a constant axial location with respect to the sheath grip member; (b) a cable fiber separator connected to the sheath grip member, the cable fiber separator including: (1) a plurality of plates including at least a first plate connected to the sheath grip member and a fiber retention plate adjacent to the first plate, the fiber retention plate including openings sized to grip furcation tubes of a fiber optic cable and the first plate including complementary openings to receive the furcation tubes; (2) a plurality of cable fiber openings located through each of the plurality of plates and sized to retain furcation tubes encasing separated optical fibers and attached to the strength member clamp; (c) wherein the fiber optic cable clamp, when mounted to a fiber optic cable, maintains the relative axial locations of a cable sheath, furcation tubes, and a cable strength member along a fiber optic cable.