Abstract: A tool for cutting electrical wire and stripping a length of electrical insulating material away from the electrically conducting core is provided with an enlarged head on each jaw so that a plurality of exposed electrically conducting cores may be grasped between the heads and twisted around a longitudinally extending axis.

Abstract: Track to provide travel of a welding carriage about a pipe, including a metal band bent to encircle a pipe and being supported by slotted crossbars, the slots of the crossbars providing resiliency to the band so that the band will yield when tightened about the pipe, and so that the pipe may expand and contract under changes in temperature without longitudinal overstressing of the band and the latch connecting the ends of the band. The invention includes locator apparatus for spacing the track from the end of a pipe, including one or more adjustable locking pliers fitted to provide pipe end and track engagements and suitable to serve as a guide for locating the position of the track with respect to the pipe end.

Abstract: A pair of tongs is on one side of the tool body provided with a rocker arms defining a two-armed lever. The forward arm portion of the rocker arms lies as a stop before die members provided in one of the jaws, and has an abutment edge over which the contact portion but not the affixing portion of a cable shoe inserted into the pair of tongs can pass. The rocker arm, affected by a spring, is with the aid of two actuating elements operated in such a way that in the final phase of a crimping operation the forward arm portion is totally removed from the area of the die members, thus enabling an elongation of the affixing portion of the respective cable shoe when being crimped.

Abstract: A pliers like tool having a transversely extended lower anvil portion replacing a person's index finger and a smaller hammer portion taking the place of a person's thumb in gripping the lower lip of a fish in place of the index finger below the lower lip and the thumb of the same hand sticking into the fish's mouth holding the fish in a relaxed state with its mouth open. This facilitates removal of the fish hook safely from the fish without injury to the person and minimal injury to the fish. The anvil portion and the smaller hammer portion of the tool gripping head are vinyl covered to further avoid injury to fish held by the lower lip gripping tool.

Abstract: A crimping tool of the type employed in crimping or compressing an article such as an electrical connector which has a substantially fixed jaw which has a surface against which an article is compressed, a ram having a surface for supporting a die and an article, the ram being mounted for movement toward and away from the jaw, and a die holder which is pivotally mounted to the ram to keep the compressing surface of the jaw and the supporting surface of the ram parallel throughout the movement of the ram in the event that the jaw deflects slightly during operation of the tool.

Abstract: A secure safety anchor that is easy to utilize is provided for attachment to structural angle irons in marine installations and the like. The anchor includes a vise grips with movable and stationary jaws, and a head welded to the stationary jaw. A flange surface portion of the head extends substantially perpendicular to an imaginary line between the vise grips jaws when in the clamping position, and a number of force concentrating set screws pass through the flange surface at an angle of about 15 degrees with respect to the imaginary line. A through-extending opening in the head provides for attachment of a safety belt clasp.

Abstract: A pliers-type top opener has a pair of pivotally interconnected handles each having a gripper at one end. Each handle is bent from sheet steel and has a flat intermediate portion. The flat intermediate portions of the handles are pivotally interconnected for relative swinging movement about an axis passing through and perpendicular to the flat intermediate portions. The sheet steel of the handles is bent substantially 90.degree. about a helical bend out of the plane of the intermediate portion to form an end portion carrying the gripper. Each gripper has a web that extends from an edge of that end portion away from the other gripper and terminates in a flange which extends from the edge of each web remote from the other web, only in a direction away from the plane of the flat portion. Each web is spaced a substantial distance to one side of that plane, so that all portions of the flanges are spaced a substantial distance from that plane.

Abstract: A pliers for handling disks and other flat and thin objects. The pliers are substantially comprised of jaws (4) provided with claws (5), biased against each other by an adjustable tension spring (3), arranged between the arms (1). The jaws (4) are made into a single part, of flexible material, and folded in two portions to form a hinge (6) acting as a penetration limiter, distinct from that (2) of the arms (1). The claws (5) are fixed on the jaws (4) by a turned down edge (10) thicker than the protuberance (12) located at the junction of the arms (1) with the jaws (4). The ends of the claws (5) are tapered and offset so as to facilitate the insertion of the jaws (4) between the object and the handling of the object with the pliers.

Abstract: A device for locking sheet metal standing seam roof panels of the type where a male leg portion of the seam is lifted up into a female leg portion of the seam in order that a partially punched and extending outward locking button on the male leg engages a turned-up hook on the female leg portion, the device comprising a pair of elongated means attached to the jaws of a duck bill toggle type pliers for urging the male leg portion into the female leg portion for locking, one of the pair of elongated means comprising a right angle iron piece adapted to encompass the apex of the rolled over female leg portion which forms the cavity, and the other of the pair of means a square rod adapted to engage a downward extending lip on the male leg portion forming the protrusion, each of said elements attached to different jaws of the duck bills of the vise grips, such that the toggle type pliers being placed into position and closed results in the square rod engaging downward extending lip and pushing upward into position

Abstract: A locking plier type of device which is provided with very large gripping jaw surfaces movable into face to face apposition, with each being provided with arcuately curved rows of arcuate teeth or serrations which interfit with one another when the jaws are brought together. The arcuate teeth or serrations are angled so that oppositely directed pulls on the tool and the sheet metal clamped between the jaws of the tool tends to cause the serrations to penetrate slightly into the surface of the sheet metal to thereby increase the grip of the tool on the sheet metal. Platen type jaws on the order of an inch and three eighths to an inch and a half square produce quite satisfactory results and permit the exertion of very strong pulling forces on sheet metal panels of substantial size.

Abstract: An apparatus adapted to join an insulated cable having an electrically conductive wire therein and a connector, having a cover and a body, the body having an electrically conductive element capable of piercing the insulation of the cable and being in electrical communication with the wire therein when the cable is joined to the connector, the cover and the body being capable of being secured together in such a manner as to hold the ribbon cable therebetween, the apparatus comprising, in combination:a loading die adapted to receive and to hold in spaced relation the cover, the body, and the cable, the loading die having positioning element associated therewith, the positioning element adapted to restrict the movement of the cover and the body in the loading die;a compression die associated with the loading die and capable of being moved relative to the loading die, and coming into pressure engagement with the body and the cover; andpressure applying component associated with the loading die and the compression

Abstract: A positioning tool for use in attaching the cover panels to support members in a prefabricated building system using self-drilling and self-tapping fasteners and a locking member which includes locating means for positioning the locking member behind the overlapped cover panels and guide means for locating the fastener against the support member opposite the locking member so that the fastener is aligned with the locking member and, as the fastener is installed by self-drilling and self-tapping its way through the juxtaposed support member and cover panels, the locking member will be threadedly engaged by the fastener to hold the cover panels against the support member between the head of the fastener and the locking member.

Abstract: An attachment device is disclosed for affixture on pliers having a first and second plier jaw. The device includes a single jaw lug to be secured to the jaw of a standard compound acting adjustable vise type of hand pliers. A piece of sheet metal is introduced between the jaw lug of the device and the opposing jaw of the hand pliers and pressure is applied to the hand pliers. An offset shoulder is displaced along the edge of the piece of sheet metal parallel to the original contour of the piece of sheet metal to form an offset shoulder and edge.

Abstract: A clamping device having a first jaw, a second jaw and means for urging said first jaw toward said second jaw wherein a clamping plate is rigidly secured to the first jaw and a second clamping plate is pivotally secured to the second jaw so that the device can clampingly engage two workpieces having different diameters at the same time. In addition, one of the clamping plates includes a pair of swivelly mounted support members having a support surface so that regardless of the pivot position of the second clamping plate, the support surfaces flatly abut against the workpieces to urge them tightly against the flat surface of the other clamping plate in a coplanar alignment.

Abstract: An expansion tool for spreading the side walls of a partitioning track comprises first and second members each having a handle portion and a jaw portion. These members are coupled together so as to cause the jaw portions to compress when the handles are compressed. Coupled to each jaw portion is a spreading member each of which includes a contact or spreading surface. As the jaws are compressed, the contact surfaces move apart.

Abstract: An implement for holding and guiding pointed elongate fasteners such as nails or studs for facilitating their driving into a surface. The implement comprises a pair of levers which are pivotally mounted and biased to a closed position by a bridging portion. Preferably the bridging portion and the levers are of one-piece molded plastic construction. To one side of the bridging portion the levers have jaws and to the other side thereof handles for opening the jaws. The implement may be temporarily secured proximate to where the nail is to be driven in so as to enable a user having only one `good` hand to drive in the nail.

Abstract: An extractor device for the removal of an elongated element from a confined opening such as a broken pencil from a pencil well of a desk includes an extractor gripping element and a modified plier's member which detachably secures to the extractor gripping element. The extractor gripping element includes a cylindrically shaped member having a longitudinally placed bore extending therethrough. The cylindrically shaped element is inserted into the pencil well such that the pencil is engaged into the bore. The plier's member engages the cylindrically shaped member, wherein the user exerts an upwardly force to lift the pencil and cylindrically shaped element from the pencil well.

Abstract: A handable clamp such as a vice grip, carrying a pair of interlocking arcuate-faced extension jaws, one of which is laterally projecting on both sides of clamp jaws and formed with parallel-sided tongues and guide slots spaced apart by aliquot distances, whereby selection of a pair of such walls as guides for saw blade will enable severance of chosen arc-length of clamped ring. The thus-matching butt-ends of the ring can then be secured together to form a ring of smaller size. The projecting jaw tongue and slot pattern is reproduced with indicia on associated reference surface, such as a decal, to indicate position of particular pairs of cuts corresponding to chosen arc length.

Abstract: Particular apparatuses implement a method of breaking a rod of brittle material, such as a glass optical fiber, so as to yield a mirrorlike surface across the entire rod end. A decreasing tensile stress is achieved across the cross section of the rod, which at all points is greater than zero but less than the threshold stress at which a mist zone forms, by simultaneously applying longitudinal tension to the rod and bending it in a tool that laterally moves a section of the fiber while holding sections to either side in friction-type clamps. A convenient hand tool for breaking optical fibers uses pivoting clamps which serve to increase tensile stress as bending is increased. Scoring is done before or after the above-mentioned tool operations.

Abstract: An adjustable pliers-like tool, for the extraction of hollow wall toggle bolt fasteners, having substantially rectangular antipodal flat jaw plates, the lower jaw having a forked notch therein. Each jaw is integrated with and positioned by a pair of movable, flat linearly extending handles having means to provide adjustability to vary the range of jaw movement. The handle of the lower forked jaw extends perpendicularly from the upper surface thereof and forms an obtuse angle with respect to the jaw plate. The upper jaw handle extends substantially parallel beyond the upper surface of the upper jaw plate and then angles acutely upwards with respect to the upper jaw plate, both handles being substantially parallel in assembled form. The tool is designed to straighten out retracted toggle bolt arms to allow removal of the toggle bolt assembly.

Abstract: A tool for assembling press-in tube connections which comprises pivoted plier elements having an L-shaped nose with two pairs of opposed recesses at right angles to each other to grip tubes in the plane of the pliers, or perpendicular to the plane, with in-turned ends on the handle to limit the closure to prevent crushing of the tube while providing both a palm rest for application of pressure. The gripping jaws are made with cutters below the jaws and are also designed to facilitate the application of pressure to releasable couplings to assist in the removal of tube.