Tool for installing communication cable in a cleft
AssigneeBellSouth Intellectual Property Corporation
InventorsKevin Forsberg, Isaac D. M. White
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Abstract
A tool is disclosed for installing communication cable. The tool has a handle, a first arm extending from the handle, and a second arm extending from the handle. The first arm has a wheel rotatably mounted to the first arm, and the wheel includes a circumferential groove. The second arm includes a cable guide for guiding the communication cable to the groove in the wheel. The handle is used to roll the wheel along a cleft, and the communication cable feeds through the cable guide to the groove in the wheel and the wheel stuffs the communication cable into the cleft.
Claims6
A tool, comprising;
- a handle;
- a first arm extending from the handle, the first arm having a wheel rotatably mounted to the first arm, the wheel including a circumferential groove, with the handle and the first arm having different planar orientations;
- and
- a second arm extending from the handle, the second arm including a cable guide guiding communication cable to the groove in the wheel,
- wherein the handle is used to roll the wheel alone a cleft, and the communication cable feeds through the cable guide to the groove in the wheel and the wheel stuffs the communication cable into the cleft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.