Stripper tool for sheathed cable

A plier type cutter tool for sheathed cable of the type having a spaced pair of insulated power conducting wires, a ground wire disposed between the insulated wires and a sheath surrounding the wires, the cutter comprising:

• a) a pair of levers having jaw, boss and handle portions;
• b) a pivot joining the boss portions to enable relative movement of the levers about the pivot between open and closed portions;
• c) the jaw portions each having blade sections for coactively circumferentially severing a cable sheath when the levers are moved from the open to the closed position;
• d) each blade section having a set of three aligned cutting parts of a cutting edge, spaced end ones of the parts being contoured to completely sever such a sheath from side portions of such sheath toward a sheath central portion containing such ground wire;
• e) central ones of the parts being adapted to sever such sheath central portion;
• f) the cutting parts together forming a cable wire receiving opening when the levers are in the closed position, the cable receiving opening being of a configuration smaller than the configuration of such a sheath of a cable the cutter is designed to cut such that such a sheath is circumferentially severed when the levers are moved from the open to the closed position to cut such a sheath of a cable;
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• g) the jaw portions further including a second set of cutting parts defining a second opening configured to cut a sheath and a core of a second cable without significantly cutting insulation on wires or an unsheathed ground wire of such second cable when the jaw members are moved from the open to the closed position to form the second opening and to sever and remove a portion of such sheath of such second cable in one continuous process.

A plier type cutter tool for sheathed cable of the type having a spaced pair of insulated power conducting wires, a ground wire disposed between the insulated wires and a sheath surrounding the wires, the plier type cutter comprising:

• a) a pair of levers having jaw, boss and handle portions;
• b) a pivot joining the boss portions to enable relative movement of the levers about the pivot between open and closed portions;
• c) the jaw portions each having blade sections for coactively circumferentially severing a cable sheath when the levers are moved from the open to the closed position;
• d) each blade section having a set of three aligned cutting parts of a cutting edge, spaced end ones of the cutting parts being contoured to completely sever such a sheath from side portions of such sheath toward a sheath central portion containing such ground wire, a raised middle cutting part between the space end ones of the set of three cutting parts for cutting the sheath central portion;
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• e) the cutting parts together forming a cable wire receiving opening when the levers are in the closed position, the cable receiving opening being of a configuration smaller than the configuration of such a sheath of a cable the cutter is designed to cut ugh that such a sheath is circumferentially severed when the levers are moved from the open to the closed position to cut such a sheath of a cable.