Depth gauge
OwnerGary Anthony Horganinventor
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Abstract
A depth gauge is provided that is configured to be removably coupled to a tool. The depth gauge having a gauge body, a coupling means to removably couple the gauge body to the tool and a fiducial on the gauge body whereby the fiducial signifies a distance between the fiducial and a portion of the tool. In some embodiments, the coupling means comprises a magnet. In some embodiments, the tool is a wire stripper whereby when the wire stripper is actuated on a coated wire, the wire stripper cuts a portion of the wire coating equal to the distance defined by the fiducial. In some embodiments, the fiducial comprises an abutment protruding from the gauge body. In some embodiments, the depth gauge has multiple fiducials and the gauge body and the fiducials are formed as one piece.
Claims20
A depth gauge configured to be magnetically coupled directly to one side of a blade, having a stripping edge, of a wire stripper for stripping an electrical wire, the depth gauge comprising:
- a gauge body and a fiducial;
- the gauge body having a proximal end and a distal end;
- the gauge body comprises a magnet having a proximal end and a distal end;
- whereby the magnet extends from the distal end of the gauge body to the proximal end of the gauge body;
- the distal end of the gauge body having a coupling face configured to be magnetically coupled directly to only the one side of the blade of the wire stripper;
- the distal face of the fiducial is coupled to the proximal end of the gauge body whereby the fiducial extends generally perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the gauge body and parallel with the coupling face of the gauge body;
- a mating portion of a distal face of the fiducial is bonded to the proximal end of the gauge body in a fixed relationship;
- the fiducial is wider than the gauge body, creating an overhanging portion of a distal face of the fiducial;
- whereby the fiducial defines a fixed distance between the overhanging portion of the distal face of the fiducial and the coupling face of the gauge body;
- the fiducial is a physical abutment configured to engage an end of the electrical wire;
- the overhanging portion of the distal face of the fiducial is an abutment face;
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- whereby the abutment face of the fiducial is parallel with a surface plane of the one side of the blade of the wire stripper when the depth gauge is magnetically coupled to only the one side of the blade of the wire stripper.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.