Abstract: Surgical crimping pliers have operating handles and connected, opposed jaws. The jaws define opposed recesses for carrying and crimping a tubular crimp member, which is preferably of oval configuration for carrying a plurality of multistrand cable sections so that, upon crimping, the cable sections are secured together. A capstan is carried on one of the handles for winding a plurality of cable portions so that tension may be placed on both ends of a cable loop array wound about a bone structure, to provide a predetermined, quantitative tension. Then the cable sections within the crimp are secured together by collapse of the crimp. A multistrand cable is preferably used, which exhibits great advantage over single strand wire, and which carries surgical needles of differing type secured to each end thereof.

Abstract: A tool for curling gift-wrapping ribbon has two arms which are pivotally mounted at one end and have a pad and blade at the other end. Closing the arms clamps a ribbon between the pad and blade and the tool can then be drawn along the ribbon to produce a curled effect.

Abstract: A spanner wrench is clamped to one component of a conventional pair of pliers and is prevented from turning relative to that component by the same pivot element which pivotably connects the two plier components to one another.

Abstract: A squeeze tool includes a pair of levers pivoted together to form a handle section of each lever on one side of the pivot connection and a work arm on the other side of the pivot connection. Each handle has a gripping portion asymetrically disposed with respect to the central plane of the tool. The gripping portions are angled opposite to each other with their remote ends converging toward each other and the near ends diverging away from each other both longitudinally and transversely. The gripping portion includes a gripping surface which is generally anatomically contoured having an arcuate thickened central portion to improve the gripping comfort and the efficiency of the tool.

Abstract: A sportsman multiple use tool is a device for allowing the sportsman a variety of tools in one. It comprises a locking bill with teeth for grasping, serrated sides on the bill for scraping, a crimper which is designed within the spacers which keep the teeth from breaking and a groove in the front of the bill for use as a degouger. A device as such will allow the sportsman to use the tool, in camping for securing items and handling hot pots, coals, etc., in hunting for grasping hides when skinning or tanning, in fishing as an all around tool for grasping fish, crabs, turtles, etc., degouging hooks, crimping weights on fishing line, and scraping fish scales off fish.

Abstract: An elongated support member has a curved and pointed pick adjacent one end thereof. The other end of the support member is formed into a pair of tweezers. Mounted on the free end of each tong of the tweezers is a flat thin needle threader. To greatly facilitate their use and operation, the needle threaders extend outwardly to the sides and lie in a plane which is at a 30.degree. to 45.degree. angle to the axis of the support member.

Abstract: A pneumatic motor operates two pairs of fixed and movable jaws to open the hooks on tire cross chains for removal from the side chains and to close the hooks on new cross chains for applying to the side chains. An air hose connects to a vehicle air pressure system and is connected to an air line passing through a handle of the apparatus; a manual valve adjacent the handle controls the air supply to the motor.

Abstract: An assembly tool for tube fittings, including a pair of pivotal manually operated channel-shapped unique leg lever handles which nest one in the other and are provided with a pair of jaws which are connected to the lever handles by a set of low friction rotatable journal shafts, the extremities of the journal shafts being journalled in the lower handles; the journal shafts being positions to maintaine the jaws in parallel relation, while under load, and are provided with coaxial channels to receive the ends of a tube fitting and press the ends of the tube fitting toward each other thereby to cause interengagement of the fitting components; the jaws being readily interchangeable to assemble fittings of a different size or construction. A further embodiment includes a clamp means incorporated in one of the channels to grip a portion of the tube element, the other jaw receiving a flaring (swaging) tool for the clamped tube element.

Abstract: A lineman's pliers which is designed to push or pull a snake through a conduit or tubing with less effort and time due to the provision of special gripping and alignment means that do not crimp the snake and apply more effective gripping action. The pliers include a pair of crossed levers provided with a head at one end having front and rear pairs of opposing jaws and opposing elongated handles at the other end whereby said jaws may be operated to effectively grip a snake.

Abstract: A modified locking-type wrench is combined with a disposable syringe and an injector barrel having a tapered tip to provide a mini-injector apparatus for injecting, under pressure, growth regulators and other solutions into the vascular systems of seedlings and branches of relatively small diameter woody plants.

Abstract: A compound plier type tool with elongate jaws configured as a chain chuck to move and hold the ends of a roller chain together for fastening by a link pin. The inner portions of the jaws provide cooperating pin and anvil structures to remove link pins from a roller chain. A species provides plural anvils for use with different sized chains.