Multiple-wire termination tool with translatable jack and cutting blade precision alignment carrier

A tool for seating and cutting multiple wires in associated terminals of a multi-terminal jack comprising a support housing, a linearly translatable blade head carrier, which is removably insertable into said support housing, said blade head carrier containing a multi-blade wire-seating and cutting head and being configured to slidably retain therein said multi-terminal jack in which respective wires of a multi-wire cable have been inserted, while providing for aligned linear translation of said blade head relative to said multi-terminal jack as said carrier is translated, such that said jack is maintained in precision alignment with said blade head as said blade head is linearly translated toward said multi-terminal lack that has been placed in said blade head carrier and is held in a fixed position by said support housing, as said blade head carrier is linearly translated within said support housing, and wherein translation of said blade head carrier is effected by a trigger and handle mechanism which is coupled to said support housing in a manner that pushes and thereby linearly translates said blade head carrier toward and against said jack, as held in said fixed position by said support housing, so as to bring seating and cutting blades of the translated blade head into precise wire-seating and cutting engagement with wires that have placed in wire-insertion slots of said jack.

A tool for seating and cutting multiple wires in associated terminals of a multi-terminal jack comprising:

• a blade head carrier having a wire-seating and cutting blade head affixed therein and a jack translation recess extending between said cutting blade head and a forward end of said blade head carrier, said jack translation recess having a floor upon which said multi-terminal jack is placed, and sidewalls that are shaped to intimately conform with and guide said multi-terminal jack into aligned engagement with wire-seating and cutting blades of said cutting blade head, as said blade head is linearly translated by said blade head carrier relative to said multi-terminal jack;
• a support housing for said blade head carrier that is configured to support said blade head carrier for linear translation therein, while retaining said multi-terminal jack in a fixed position and aligned with said blade head, as said blade head carrier is linearly translated in said support housing and brings said wire-seating and cutting blades of said cutting blade head into aligned engagement with said multi-terminal jack;
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• a blade head carrier translation mechanism, which is coupled to said blade head carrier, and is operative to linearly translate said blade head carrier relative to said support housing and toward said multi-terminal jack that has been placed in said jack translation recess of said blade head carrier, so as to be aligned thereby with said cutting blade head, while being retained in said fixed position by said support housing, so as to bring said wire-seating and cutting blades of said wire-seating and cutting blade head into aligned wire-seating and cutting engagement with wires that have been inserted into said multi-terminal jack.