Claims
- 1. A polishing fixture having nests for releasably holding optical fiber connectors during polishing, comprising:
- at least portions of the nests being moveable by deflection of deflectable beams, the beams being deflectable to narrow the nests and hold optical fiber connectors received in the nests,
- each of the beams being deflectable by engagement with at least one of multiple protruding working surfaces spaced apart along a force transmitting body,
- and the force transmitting body avoiding jamming against the beams by being moveable beside each of the beams in a direction that unopposes a direction toward which respective deflected portions of the inclined beams point to disengage working surfaces from the beams and allow release of optical connectors in respective nests.
- 2. A polishing fixture as recited in claim 1 wherein, the force transmitting body is moveable beside each of the beams in repeated increments of movement to engage each beam with consecutive working surfaces.
- 3. A polishing fixture as recited in claim 1 wherein, indicator marks on the force transmitting body indicate increments of movement of the force transmitting body.
- 4. A polishing fixture as recited in claim 1 wherein, the beams are angularly spaced apart along a perimeter of a plate, and the working surfaces are along a rim of a ring encircling the perimeter.
- 5. A polishing fixture as recited in claim 4 wherein, a perimeter of the plate is supported for relative rotation between a bezel on the force transmitting body and a remainder of the force transmitting body.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation in part of application Ser. No. 08/668,028, filed Jun. 19, 1996, U.S. Pat. No. 5,643,064.
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