Crimp for a jack
OwnerMichelle Griffin, Steve Rohrbachinventors
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Abstract
A crimping tool has a handle lever portion and a crimp portion with a press and a base housing. The base housing has a placement location with a recessed surface for engaging a jack and a recessed region for a cable. The base housing also has lateral regions that have frictionally engaging surface portions for clamping to wire ends. The press has a plunger and a housing with terminating blades for shearing excess wire from the cable when the tool engages a twisted pair cable to a jack. The blades cut the wires and the excess wire is discarded. The press and the base housing then disengage and the jack is removed from the tool with the cable in communication with the electrical contacts of the jack.
Claims18
A tool for terminating wires to a jack, comprising:
- a handle lever portion;
- a crimp portion having a movable press and a movable base housing located opposite the press;
- a pivot mechanism mounted between the handle lever portion and the crimp portion;
- and wherein
- the base housing is adapted to support the jack such that the press pivots into engagement with the base housing and the jack to progressively terminate the wires.
A tool for terminating wires to a jack, comprising:
- a handle lever portion having a first handle and a second handle that are pivotally connected at a main pivot point, the first handle is further pivotally connected to a first arm at a first pivot location, the second handle is pivotally connected to a second arm at a second pivot location, and the first and second arms are further pivotally connected at an auxiliary pivot point, such that the handle lever portion operates with dual-pivot action about the main and auxiliary pivot points;
- a base housing mounted to the first arm;
- a press mounted to the second arm;
- and wherein
- the base housing is adapted to support the jack such that the press pivots into engagement with the base housing and the jack to progressively terminate the wires.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.