Portable hand tool
AssigneeHubbell Incorporated
InventorsLawrence Norman Brown, Thomas Romeo Faucher
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Abstract
Tools for operating on an object, such as a wire or cable are provided. The tool includes a housing and a working head assembly. The working head assembly has a movable section and fixed section secured to the housing. The movable section has a first end movably secured to a first end of the fixed section. The movable section has a second end that is releasably secured to a second end of the fixed section using a latch pin. The working head assembly also includes a latch pin stop that is positioned in the second end of the movable section. The latch pin stop is configured to prevent the latch pin from releasably securing the movable section to the fixed section until the movable section is properly aligned with the fixed section.
Claims24
A tool, comprising:
- a working head assembly including a first section and a second section, the first section having a latch portion with a pair of aligned mounting holes releasably securable to a latch portion of the second section having at least one mounting hole;
- a latch pin removably extendable through the pair of aligned mounting holes and through the at least one mounting hole;
- and
- a latch pin stop positioned in said working head assembly and extendable between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein said latch pin stop is in the extended position when said latch pin stop is at least partially disposed between the pair of aligned mounting holes preventing said latch pin from extending from a first one of the pair of aligned mounting holes to a second one of the pair of aligned mounting holes.
A cable cutting tool, comprising:
- a housing including a motor;
- a working head assembly attached to said housing, said working head assembly including a first section and a second section, the first section having a latch portion with a pair of aligned mounting holes releasably securable to a latch portion of the second section having at least one mounting hole;
- a latch pin removably extendable through the pair of aligned mounting holes and through the at least one mounting hole;
- a latch pin stop positioned in said working head assembly and extendable between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein said latch pin stop is in the extended position when said latch pin stop is at least partially disposed between the pair of aligned mounting holes preventing said latch pin from extending from a first one of the pair of aligned mounting holes to a second one of the pair of aligned mounting holes;
- a first cutting blade fixed to one of the first or second sections of said working head assembly;
- and
- a second cutting blade actuated by the motor to move towards and away from said first cutting blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.