Patent ID: 8737797

Claim:
A device for receiving a subassembly having a furcation plug or a furcation adaptor being a portion of an optical fibre cable and for fastening the subassembly received on the device to a mounting, via the device, the device having a bar-shaped basic body, there being formed on a topside of the basic body a guide element for receiving the subassembly, there being formed on an underside, in the region of mutually opposite ends of the basic body, anchoring elements, via which the device can be introduced into recesses of the mounting, wherein the guide element for receiving the subassembly comprises at least two protrusions forming latching elements which engage with shoulders or recesses formed in the subassembly to be received by the guide element when the subassembly is pushed into the guide element, wherein the protrusions forming the latching elements run in parallel to the bar-shaped basic body, whereby the distance between the protrusions assigned to the opposite side walls is decreasing as seen in the push-in direction of the subassembly into the interior of the guide element.