Desoldering device
AssigneeMetcal, Inc.
InventorsMichael Carlomagno, Paul F. Busch, Steven James
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Abstract
A desoldering tool has a removable heater cartridge and a base unit having an assembly interior including a solder collection chamber and a removable vacuum source for developing a vacuum in and above the chamber and a removable porous solder retention pad located between the vacuum source and the solder collection chamber, the cartridge having a temperature self-regulating heater therein, a tail pipe extending from a hollow tip of the cartridge to a position above the solder collection chamber, and a vacuum seal between the cartridge and the base unit to maintain the vacuum and reduce transfer of heat from the tip. The tool is readily converted to a soldering iron or a hot air gun.
Claims7
A desoldering tool having a base unit including upper and lower members securable to one another, a solder collection chamber located in the lower member, a selectively activatable source of vacuum in the lower member, a cartridge having a tip and an electric heater in said tip, the tip having a bore therethrough, the tip being removably secured in the upper member and having a hollow pipe communicating with the bore in the tip and extending over the solder collection chamber, characterized by
- a further chamber in communication with the source of vacuum,
- a porous member removable disposed in said further chamber,
- said solder collection chamber having a base surface with a channel formed therein extending into communication with said porous member, and
- a solder collection chamber liner removably disposed in said solder collection chamber and seated on said base surface thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.