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US 2015/0053301 A1Published application
Cable Tie Tensioning and Cut-Off Tool
AssigneeHellermannTyton Corporation
InventorEdward P. Dyer
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Abstract
A hand held tool for the tensioning and severing of cable ties, including reciprocating means for tensioning the cable tie tail, locking means to prevent further tensioning upon the attainment of a preselected tension level in the tie tail, and severing means to sever the tie tail from the cable tie head.
Claims8
A tool for tensioning and severing an elongate cable tie, said tie having a tie head portion and tie tail portion, the tool including:
- a pistol-shaped housing including a handle portion and a barrel portion;
- an elongate trigger extending downwardly from the barrel portion, forwardly of the handle portion and displaceable toward and away from the handle portion;
- a tensioning mechanism in the barrel portion operable to engage a tie and apply tension to the tie in response to movement of the trigger toward the handle portion;
- a locking mechanism in the barrel portion operable to stop application of tension to the tie when tension applied by the tensioning mechanism reaches a predetermined tie tension;
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- a cutoff mechanism in the barrel portion operable to cut off the tie when the locking mechanism stops tie tensioning.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.