US 4,733,701 AGranted

Tool for tightening and cutting clamps

AssigneeLegrand

InventorsFrancois Loisel, Marc Gosse, Patrick Hauchard, Jean C. Auger

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Abstract

A tool for tightening and cutting clamps comprises two handles pivoted to each other of which one is a tightening handle and has at its end a grasping member adapted to grasp the clamp to be cut. The other handle is a cutting handle and has at its end a movable cutter. Elastic element oppose movement of the grasping and cutting handles towards each other. An actuator to apply thrust to the cutter and elastic return element opposes movement of the cutter. The actuator comprises the pivot by which the handles are pivoted to each other and a curved slot in the cutting handle by which the cutting handle is fastened to the pivot and in which the pivot is movable parallel to itself, transversely to the pivot axis.

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Dependent claims

Tool for tightening and cutting clamps comprising two handles, a pivot for pivoting said handles to each other, one of said handles being a tightening handle and having at its end grasping means for grasping the clamp to be cut and the other of said handles being a cutting handle and having at its end a movable cutter, elastic means for opposing pivoting movement of said grasping and cutting handles towards each other, actuator means for applying thrust to said cutter, and elastic return means for opposing movement of said cutter, wherein said actuator means defines the pivot for pivoting said handles to each other and a curved slot in said cutting handle by which said cutting handle is fastened to said pivot and in which said pivot is movable parallel to itself and transversely relative to the axis of the pivot.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.