Tool used in combination with cable security device
OwnerGlenn G. Millerinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a terminator tool used in combination with a cable security terminator for installing or removing the cable security terminator. The terminator tool includes a handle, a shaft, a retaining pin and a spring member. The shaft is hollow and extends from the handle. The shaft includes a pin hole to receive the retaining pin, a handle end and a terminator end. The handle end is the end inserted and secured into the handle. The terminator end includes two ear slots and receives the spring member. The terminator end is sized to fit into a tool end of the cable security terminator. Ears of the spring member extend from the ear slots of the shaft.
Claims14
A tool, used in combination with a cable security device having a tool end and a connector end, said tool end including an opened end to receive said tool into an inside surface of said tool end and at least one inside slot on said inside surface between said tool end and said connector end, said connector end adapted to attach said cable security device to an object, comprising:
- a handle used to rotate, push and pull said terminator tool;
- a spring member fixed to said handle such that said spring member rotates with said handle, whereby said handle can be used for insertion, removal and rotation of said spring member internally in said tool end of said cable security device;
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- at least one ear extending from said spring member on an end of said spring member opposite said handle to engage said at least one inside slot of said cable security device, said at least one ear configured on said spring member such that the rotation of said handle rotates said cable security device on and off said object at said connector end when said at least one car is engaged with said at least one slot,
- said spring member being flexible to allow said at least one ear to flex away from said inside surface of said tool end during installation of said end opposite said handle into said tool end and to allow said at least one ear to flex into and engage said at least one slot of said inside surface,
- said at least one ear including a front corner shaped to allow said front corner to engage said inside surface at said opened end of said tool end during insertion under a pushing pressure of said handle to insert said tool into said cable security device and force flexing of said spring member to allow entrance of said at least one ear to engage said at least one inside slot,
- said at least one ear including a rear corner shaped to allow said rear comer to engage said inside surface at said at least one inside slot during removal under a pulling pressure of said handle to remove said tool from said cable security device and force flexing of said spring member to allow removal of said at least one ear from said at least one inside slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.