Terminating tool

A hand tool for crimping wires into a connector of the type having a row of cavities on each side and with terminals of the type having wire-receiving slotted blades being positioned in the cavities, said tool comprising:

• a. a piston-shaped handle having a movable shaft and means for moving the shaft back and forth;
• b. wire stuffer means attached to the forward end of the shaft for stuffing wires into the wire-receiving slotted blades in the terminals;
• c. a work frame attached to the front end of the handle and having a transversely-extending, connector-receiving notch, a block positioned immediately behind the notch and having a longitudinally extending slot through which the wire stuffer means moves and also having wire guide means on the side facing the notch and which intersects the slot so that as the wire stuffer means moves forwardly through the slot it picks up a wire which may be in the guide means and moves it into the slotted blades in a terminal in a connector which may be in the notch, said frame further having an indexing wheel rotatably positioned in front of the notch, said wheel having means thereon adapted to engage a connector which may be in the notch;
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• d. indexing means connected to the wire stuffer means at one end and engageable with the indexing wheel at the other end so that as the wire stuffer means moves, it moves the indexing means which engages and rotates the indexing wheel which in turn engages and advances a connector which may be in the notch so as to position a terminal in front of the longitudinally extending slot.