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US 4,359,819 AGranted
Quick clamping device to hold BX cables
OwnerLucien C. Ducretinventor
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Abstract
A hand tool for cutting the armor of armored cable, comprising two elongated handle members hingedly connected, the first member carrying a manually operated circular saw and the second member having a channel in which the cable is clamped during cutting. The improvement including a clamping plunger carried by a third handle member which is hinged to the second member and manually activated to press the plunger firmly and/or resiliently against the cable to hold it firmly against the wall of the channel during the cutting operation.
Claims7
A hand tool for cutting the shielding of a shielded conduit comprising:
- a first elongated handle member having a hinge end and a free end;
- a circular saw carried by said first member adjacent its free end in a position such that its cutting plane is parallel to the longitudinal axis of said first member;
- a second elongated handle member defining a cable-receiving channel, having a hinge end and a free end, hingedly connected to said first member at the hinge ends of said members, and being provided with a longitudinally disposed slot which is adjacent the free end of said second member and lies in the cutting plane of the circular saw;
- stop and guide means between said first and second members, adapted to control and delimit the relative hinging movement of said members;
- a third elongated member disposed substantially parallel to the second member and hingedly connected thereto adjacent the free end thereof;
- cable clamping means carried by said third member and being movable thereby toward and away from cable clamping position;
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- means for limiting the movement of said third member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.