Metal tie tool with rotary gripper and ball setting device
AssigneePanduit Corp.
InventorsLawrence A Hillegonds, Samuel M Marrs
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Abstract
A tool for installing a metal locking tie is disclosed. The tool includes a tension mechanism and a ball set and cut-off mechanism. The tension mechanism tensions the metal locking tie wrapped around a bundle. The ball set and cut-off mechanism includes a guide block and a shear block that engages the guide block. Once the tool tensions the metal locking tie, a ball set and cut-off handle is manually activated to push the guide block and the shear block forward in the tool thereby setting a ball in a metal locking tie head and shearing a portion of the tensioned metal locking tie.
Claims13
A tool for installing a metal locking tie, the tool comprising:
- a tension mechanism for tensioning the metal locking tie wrapped around a bundle;
- a ball set and cut-off mechanism for setting a ball in a metal locking tie head and for shearing a portion of the tensioned metal locking tie, wherein the ball set and cut-off mechanism includes a guide block and a shear block engaging the guide block, wherein the tool further includes a fixed pin, whereby once the shear block contacts the fixed pin the shear block remains stationary while the guide block continues to move forward;
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- a handle for activating the ball set and cut-off mechanism.
A tool for installing a metal locking tie, the tool comprising:
- a tension mechanism for tensioning the metal locking tie wrapped around a bundle;
- a ball set and cut-off mechanism for setting a ball in a metal locking tie head and for shearing a portion of the tensioned metal locking tie, wherein the ball set and cut-off mechanism includes a guide block and a shear block engaging the guide block, wherein the shear block is keyed to the guide block by pins;
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- a handle for activating the ball set and cut-off mechanism.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.