Method of manufacturing cable connector hand tools
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorScott L. Small
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Abstract
An illustrative cable connector hand tool and associated method are operable to permit cable connection sections to respectively pass through a side opening of hand tool members into a center aperture of the tool members. In one illustrative embodiment, the hand tool members are formed with a recessed portion adapted to receive an end of one of a pair of cable connectors such that mating edges of the cable connectors used to couple the cable connection sections are visible when the cable connectors are in a coupled configuration abutting each other. An illustrative embodiment includes the recessed portion formed with a plurality of keyway indentions or recesses spaced apart in the center aperture that are operable to engage keys, protrusions, or lugs on an outer wall of the cable connectors.
Claims3
A method of manufacturing a hand tool for coupling together first and second cable sections, the method including the steps of:
- determining a clearance measurement in a confined space receiving a cable connector assembly adapted to couple together mating cable sections including a plug and a socket;
- wherein the cable connector assembly includes first and second cable connecting nuts, each of the cable connecting nuts formed with keys extending radially outwardly from an outer surface of the of the cable connecting nuts and including a threaded connecting portion, the threaded connecting portions of the first and second cable connecting nuts threadably engaging each other to couple together the plug and the socket of the mating cable sections by compressive force applied to the mating cable sections;
- wherein the first and second cable connecting nuts are adapted to abut each other at mating surfaces when fully threadably engaged with each other;
- wherein the cable connector assembly is located in the confined space such that the space does not permit use of a wrench with a handle for 360 degree rotation of the first and second cable connecting nuts;
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- determining, based on the clearance measurement, a maximum outer dimensional envelope for first and second hand tool members adapted to engage with the keys on the first and second cable connecting nuts and permit visibility of the mating surfaces of the first and second cable connecting nuts between the first and second hand tool members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.