Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus including a housing having a cover and a pivotably mounted flap, said housing receiving a module that receives the strip of precut material. Said module is arranged with a transverse supporting plate, and a flap that is pivotably mounted relative to said module and to said supporting plate while being placed in front of the latter and opposite the inner front surface of the cover so as to enable the material strip to pass therethrough. The module hingedly receives, in front of the flap, a cover plate that is profiled, on the top edge thereof, with an edge, which is oriented toward the inside of the flap and which is suitable for projecting from the top of said flap so as to make it possible to guide the material strip between said flap and said cover plate.

Abstract: A jacket layer of a jacketed optical fiber is cut by a cutting method and apparatus in which (A) a terminal portion of a jacketed optical fiber is straightened and grasped by a fiber holder, and (B) a blade device having (a) a pair of cutting blades and (b) a blade holder in which device cutting edges of the blades are arranged in such a manner that the edges are opposite to each other through a gap left therebetween and are on one and the same plane, the straightened portion of the jacketed optical fiber extends at a substantially right angle to the plane, and a center line of the gap between the cutting edges intersects an axis of the straightened portion of the jacketed optical fiber, and is moved in at least one direction at a substantially right angle to the axis of the straightened portion of the jacketed optical fiber to cut the secondary coating layer at a depth equal to or larger than the thickness of the secondary coating layer but smaller than the total thickness of the primary and secondary coatin