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US 12,049,765 B2Granted
Portable hot swaged coupling device for connecting articles
AssigneeLife Coded, LLC
InventorsJohn J. Meyer, Benjamin C. Nichols
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Abstract
A method of spicing together and joining ends of a first member and a second member includes the steps of: arranging the ends of the first member and the second member in side-by-side manner; placing a coupling sleeve over the ends of the first member and the second member; and using a portable, hot-swaged coupling device to heat and crimp the coupling sleeve about the ends of the first and second member, thereby joining the ends of the first and second members.
Claims24
A hot-swaged coupling device for connecting a first member to a second member comprising:
- a housing;
- a first jaw and a second jaw each of which is movably coupled to the housing and moves between an open position and a closed position, the first jaw having a first surface and the second jaw having a second surface that faces the first surface;
- first and second interchangeable dies, the first interchangeable die being coupled to the first surface, while the second interchangeable die being coupled to the second surface, wherein in the closed position of the first and second jaws, the first and second interchangeable dies seat against one another and define an enclosed opening, wherein each of the first interchangeable die and the second interchangeable die has an exposed inner surface for receiving and forming a coupling sleeve about ends of the first member and the second member when the first and second jaws are in the closed position and the first member and the second member are in abutting relationship;
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- a heating mechanism for heating the coupling sleeve.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.