Safety cable tool
AssigneeDaniels Manufacturing Corporation
InventorMichael G. Scruggs
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Abstract
A tool for tensioning safety cable to a predetermined tension limit and for automatically terminating the cable when the cable has been tensioned to the predetermined limit. The tool includes apparatus for grasping and pulling the cable to the predetermined tension limit and apparatus for automatically crimping a ferrule onto the cable when the predetermined tension limit is reached. The crimping apparatus is operative to sever a free end of the cable concurrently with crimping of the ferrule.
Claims9
A tool for tensioning safety cable to a predetermined tension limit and for automatically terminating the cable when the predetermined limit is reached, the tool comprising:
- shuttle means reciprocally mounted to the tool for incrementally advancing the cable during a drive stroke;
- a toggle assembly operatively connected to said shuttle means for affecting reciprocal motion thereof;
- tension setting means operatively coupled to said toggle assembly for inhibiting advancement of the cable when tension therein is greater than a preselected value;
- clamping means operative in response to inhibited advancement of the cable for terminating the cable;
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- a deformable ferrule held in the tool, the cable passing through the ferrule to said shuttle means, said clamping means comprising means for compressing the ferrule onto the cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.