Pulling head work station and method
AssigneeCerro Wire LLC
InventorsDOUGLAS P. HENDERSON, John K. Young, Jeffery D. Kennedy
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Abstract
A pulling head work station for attaching the lugs of pulling heads to cables, so that the cables may be pulled simultaneously through a conduit. The pulling head work station includes staggered cable receiving jigs, each jig having two clamps to hold a corresponding cable in place during attachment of a pulling lug. A chop saw to cut the cables and a crimper to secure a pulling lug to each stripped end portion of a cable may be slidably mounted to a work surface of the work station. A wire stripper may be removably attached to the work station.
Claims25
A pulling head work station comprising:
- a base having a work surface;
- a plurality of cable receiving jigs mounted to the work surface of the base, each cable receiving jig having a first end portion and a second end portion;
- a first cable clamp mounted at the first end portion of each cable receiving jig;
- a second cable clamp mounted at the second end portion of each cable receiving jig;
- and
- said second ends of the plurality of cable receiving jigs having a staggered configuration.
A pulling head work station comprising:
- a base having a work surface;
- a plurality of cable receiving jigs mounted to the work surface of the base, each cable receiving jig having a first end portion and a second end portion;
- a first cable clamp mounted at the first end portion of each cable receiving jig;
- a second cable clamp mounted at the second end portion of each cable receiving jig;
- a chop saw movably mounted to the base;
- and
- a crimping head movably mounted to the base.
A method of installing a pulling head onto a plurality of cables, the method comprising steps of:
- placing a portion of each cable onto a cable receiving jig mounted to the work surface of a pulling head work station, each cable receiving jig having a first end portion and a second end portion;
- clamping the placed portion of each cable with a first cable clamp mounted at the first end portion of each cable receiving jig and a second cable clamp mounted at the second end portion of each cable receiving jig;
- cutting each cable to a desired length using a chop saw movably mounted to the pulling head work station to produce cut cables;
- removing at least one cable layer from an end portion of each cut cable with a stripper removably mounted to the pulling head work station;
- crimping a pulling lug onto each stripped end portion using a crimping head movably mounted to the base.
A pulling head work station comprising:
- a base having a work surface;
- a first cable clamp mounted to the work surface and adapted to receive a cable;
- a second cable clamp mounted to the work surface at a position spaced from the first cable clamp and adapted to receive the cable;
- and
- a saw movably mounted on the work station so that the saw may be positioned to cut the cable at a location adjacent to the second cable clamp.
A method of installing a pulling head onto a plurality of cables, the method comprising steps of:
- clamping each cable with a first cable clamp mounted to a work surface of a pulling head work station;
- clamping each cable with a corresponding second cable clamp mounted to the work surface of the pulling head work station;
- cutting each cable at a location adjacent to the corresponding second cable clamp for the cable to a desired length using a chop saw movably mounted to the pulling head work station to produce cut cables;
- removing at least one cable layer from an end portion of each cut cable with a stripper;
- crimping a pulling lug onto each stripped end portion using a crimping head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.