Wire twisting method and apparatus
AssigneeSix-Pac Recycling, Inc.
InventorGilberto Valenzuela
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for twisting wire using an axially elongated hand-holdable tool having an outer axially extending slot and an inner axially extending hole in an end thereof for receiving and supporting an axially extending length of wire and an adjacent end of the wire respectively during a turning of the tool on a longitudinal axis thereof.
Claims7
A method of twisting wire using an axially elongated tool having an outer axially extending open slot and an inner axially extending hole in an end of the tool, comprising the steps of:
- bending one end of a longitudinally extending length of wire to form a U-shaped end portion having a long leg comprising the length of wire and a relatively short bent leg portion;
- axially securing the U-shaped end portion;
- inserting an end of the short bent leg into the axially extending hole in the end of the tool and placing the long leg of wire in the outer axially extending slot in the tool;
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- turning the tool on a longitudinal axis of the tool while the tool moves axially rearward relative to the long leg of wire to form a loop in the U-shaped portion of the wire forward of the tool and to twist the bent leg portion over and rearward along and around the long leg of wire rearward of the loop.
A wire turning tool for forming a closed loop in an end of a length of wire and a twisted portion of the length of wire adjacent to closed loop, the tool comprising:
- an axially extending and elongated hand-holdable tool body having an axially extending inner hole in an end thereof for receiving an end of a length of wire, and
- an axially extending outer slot for receiving a portion of the length of wire adjacent the end received by the hole in the forward end of the tool for laterally securing and axially guiding the portion of the length of wire during a turning the tool on a longitudinal axis thereof.
Apparatus for twisting wire comprising:
- an axially extending and elongated hand-holdable tool body having an axially extending inner hole in an end thereof for receiving an end of a length of wire, and an axially extending outer slot for receiving a portion of the length of wire adjacent the end received by the hole in the forward end of the tool for laterally securing and axially guiding the portion of the length of wire during a turning the tool on a longitudinal axis thereof and a wrench for turning the tool body on a longitudinal axis thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.