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US 4,893,393 AGranted
Pipe fitting assembly tool
OwnerBen C. Marshallinventor
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Abstract
A pipe fitting assembly tool for connecting and disconnecting pipes including a pair of clamps which are attached to separate lever clamping systems which control clamping and unclamping the pipes and which are pivotally attached to scissors structured handle bars which control the movement of the clamps to and from each other.
Claims7
A pipe fitting assembly tool for connecting and disconnecting pipes comprising:
- a pair of lever clamping systems including a pair of clamps which encircle and lock the pipes, each of said clamps includes a pair of opposing arcuate half clamps, each of said half clamps pivotally connected by means of a separate straight lever arm secured thereto and extending upwardly and inwardly therefrom and pivotally attached to each other above said clamps in scissors structure which open and close said half clamps said lever arms adjustably joined at the top by a pivotally attached cam lever locking system, each of said clamping systems is pivotally attached to the bottom of long straight separate handle bars extending upwardly therefrom and which are pivotally attached to each other in a scissors structure,
- whereby said clamping systems operate locking and unlocking of the pipes in the clamps and said handle bars operate movement of the locked pipes along a single plane to and from each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.