Plural Tools Pivotal With Respect To Plural Handles Patents (Class 72/409.11)
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Patent number: 11679519Abstract: A light-weight bolt cutter tool includes a pair of opposing pivotally mounted jaws, each made from a fiber-reinforced composite body jacketed by a blade having a hardened metal outer surface oriented to forcibly engage the other one of said jaws. Each jaw can have pair of indentations proving the jaw with an I-beam-type cross-sectional shape. The bolt cutter tool can be actuated by a pair of elongated, hollow fiber resin composite handles. Each handle can include an elastomeric damping plug to prevent debris entering the hollow handle and reduce material fatigue. A quick-deployment, quiver-style backpack can conveniently carry the colt cutters when not in use.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Inventor: Roger J. Malcolm
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Publication number: 20140245807Abstract: The present invention discloses a crimping tool, which comprises a first rod, a second rod, a transmission unit and a crimping portion. The first rod includes a first rod body. The second rod includes a second rod body and an abutting element, and the second rod body includes a guiding groove. The transmission unit comprises a transmission unit body, an adjustable portion, a sliding element and a linking element, wherein the adjustable portion is disposed on one end of the transmission unit body, which is external to the second rod body. The crimping portion is connected with the transmission unit body. When the crimping tool is used, the adjustable portion can be adjusted and thus the crimping portion is moved, thereby changing the distance between the crimping portion and the abutting element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2013Publication date: September 4, 2014Applicant: HANLONG INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Chien-Chou Liao, Hsing-Chieh Ho
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Patent number: 8770006Abstract: A compound rod bender includes a first handle arm and a second handle arm coupled to a first pivot point. A body portion of the rod bender is coupled to the first handle arm at a second pivot point and the second handle arm is coupled to the body portion at a third pivot point. The body portion also includes first and second distal arms configured with first and second rolling elements coupled to distal ends of the first and second distal arms. A barrel is provided on the body portion which is positioned on a center area of the body portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventor: Michael Harper
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Patent number: 8578751Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for processing a workpiece in particular for pressing, holding and/or cutting a pipe, having a first pair of jaws which has a first upper jaw and a first lower jaw, having a first effective area formed between the front ends of the first jaws, having a first inlet contour formed between the rear ends of the first jaws and having a holding device which movably accommodates the first jaws independent of one another, wherein the first jaws can be pivoted between an open position and a closed position. The present invention is based on the technical problem of specifying a tool, by means of which in one process at least one first and one second effect can be assigned to the tool independently from one another in time.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2011Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Viega GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Frank Hofmann
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Patent number: 8522830Abstract: A crimping device for securing a seal member onto overlapped end portions of a strap material includes at least a tool head, operating and stationary handles, two rows of crimping elements having at least a pair of shears and oppositely situated pair of jaws extended between the pair of shears. The crimping elements may be disposed in the tool head and connected with the handles so that at least one row of crimping elements crimps a seal while at least one row is idle when the handles move away from each other. In an embodiment, the handles can make an inward stroke only when a full jaw-closing outward crimping stroke is completed. At least one row of crimping elements crimps the seal with an inward movement of the handles while at least one previously actuated row of crimping elements is not involved in closing the seal.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Teknika USA, Inc.Inventors: Pavlo Barlasov, Sergey Ivanovich Girchenko
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Patent number: 8516872Abstract: The present invention relates to crimping pliers for crimping a workpiece. The crimping pliers comprise two hand levers. At the crimping pliers a first tool builds a crimping tool and comprises two crimping jaws located at a head of the pliers. The crimping jaws are linked by a transfer mechanism with the two hand levers. The invention suggests providing a second tool. The second tool comprises a working area, wherein the working area is located between the two hand levers. The second tool is solely mounted with a first hand lever of the two hand levers. The second hand lever comprises a contact surface cooperating with a contact surface of the second tool. The contact of the two contact surfaces is used for transferring an activating force from the hand levers to the second tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2010Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: WEZAG GmbH WerkzeugfabrikInventors: Kurt Battenfeld, Thomas Glockseisen
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Patent number: 8312755Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, an apparatus, including: first and second handles; first and second crimping jaws operatively connected, respectively, to the first and second handles, such that moving the first and second handles toward each other causes the first and second crimping jaws to advance toward each other thereby to crimp a band around tubing or pipe; and a third handle rotatably attached to the first handle, such that a user of the apparatus manually moves the first handle toward the second handle by grasping the second handle and the third handle and moving them toward each other. A method of using the apparatus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2007Date of Patent: November 20, 2012Assignee: Rostra Tool CompanyInventors: Richard A. Steiner, Joseph A. Krzyzanski
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Patent number: 8230715Abstract: The present invention relates to a head of crimping pliers for crimping a work piece. The head comprises two inserts. Each insert builds at least two halves of at least two nests for the work piece. The inserts are guided along a guiding axis for a sliding movement between a first and second relative position. The guiding axis is directed transverse to the crimping axis. Two nests built by the halves might be used in one and the same position by moving the inserts from the first to the second relative position.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: WEZAG GmbH WerkzeugfabrikInventors: Kurt Battenfeld, Thomas Glockseisen
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Apparatus and methods for forming a finger-engaging portion in a stay-on-tab of a lid of a container
Patent number: 8127588Abstract: An apparatus for forming a finger-engaging portion in a stay-on-tab of a lid of a container includes a support, a fixture mounted to the support for movement between a first position and a second position in opposition to stay-on-tab of the lid of the container, and an abutment mounted to the fixture for movement between an open position and a closed position in opposition to the fixture and the stay-on tab in the second position of the fixture to bend the stay-on-tab between the fixture and the abutment to form in the stay-on-tab a finger-engaging portion that is upturned relative to the lid of the container.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Inventors: Harold W. Halpin, Katherine E. Higgins -
Patent number: 7997116Abstract: The invention relates to a link for a crimping tool (2) comprising at least two crimping dies (12,14,16,18) and two tool handles (6,8), where the movable link (23) is arranged between the tool handles (6,8), the link (23) having an opening (72) arranged to engage a guide element (70) on a first handle (6) and being pivotally fixed to a second handle (8), where the guide element (70) is arranged to move from engagement with a first edge (71) of the opening (72) into engagement with a second opposite edge (73) of the opening (72) when the handles (6,8) are brought together to a position where the workpiece (19) is engaged by the crimping dies (12,14,16,18), the link (23) thus enabling the person using the crimping tool (2) to utilize the optimum gripping range of the hand that is about to exert a large force on the handles (6,8) in order to bring them further together for the crimping of the workpiece (19), this regardless of the dimension of the workpiece (19) to be crimped.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Pressmaster ABInventor: Mats Norin
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Patent number: 7823433Abstract: A ratchet crimping tool is disclosed. The ratchet crimping tool comprises a tool head cover board structure, a tool handle structure, a transmission device, and a tool handle. The transmission device further comprises an anti-backup mechanism, an advancement mechanism and a gear structure. The ratchet crimping tool uses a coaxial tool head, a confirming-indicating device and an adjustable jaw structure. The coaxial tool head comprises a movable tool handle and a fixed tool handle. A gear of the movable tool head is engaged with the gear structure of the transmission device, and the adjustable jaw structure is connected with the movable tool handle. The confirming-indicating device is connected with the movable tool handle and the fixed tool handle respectively. The coaxial tool head is connected with a tool head cover board structure by link pins, and the gear structure of the transmission device is connected with the movable tool handle by connecting pins via upper and lower cover boards.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Tianjin Runshi Technology Development Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hanzhen Zhang
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Patent number: 7536896Abstract: Pliers include a left grip, a right grip, a positioned clamping base, a movable clamping base, two clamping members and two gears. Each of the positioned clamping base and the movable clamping base has a notch, a recess, a hole cut on the top of the notch and the bottom of the recess respectively, a through hole bored in the bottom of the notch to communicate with the recess. Two clamping members are respectively fitted in each notch, provided with plural plates, plural curved grooves formed in one of them and plural curved projections formed in the other, a bar and a shaft formed on their tops and their bottoms respectively. Each of the recesses is fitted with a gear provided with a through hole. Thus, the invention can be used to press diverse specifications of conducting line.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: May 26, 2009Inventor: Cheng-Hao Hung
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Publication number: 20080134747Abstract: The tool reduces or stops the flow of liquid or gas through a conduit and includes a crimping section, comprised of a first and second crimping member pivotally engaged with each other, and a handle section, comprised of a first and second handle member pivotally connected to each other. Each crimping member has a blunt section extending partially along an edge thereof. The first and second handle members are connected to the first and second crimping members. The conduit is crimped by applying a force to the handle members causing the handle members and the crimping members to pivot in a direction opposite each other so that the blunt sections of crimping members crimp a conduit placed therebetween thereby reducing or stopping the flow of the liquid or gas flowing through the conduit. The tool may also hold objects and be locked via separate locking mechanisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventor: Thomas Michael Hughes
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Publication number: 20080115556Abstract: A tool reduces a flow of liquid or gas through a conduit. The tool includes a crimping section having a first crimping member with a first blunt section extending partially along an edge thereof and a second crimping member having a second blunt section extending partially along an edge thereof. The first and second members are pivotally engaged with one another. A handle section is connected to the crimping section. The handle section includes a first handle member connected to the first crimping member and a second handle member connected to the second crimping member. A hinge pivotally connects the first handle member to the second handle member. When the first and second handle members are pivoted about the hinge, the first and second crimping members are caused to pivot in a direction opposite to the respective first and second handle members.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2007Publication date: May 22, 2008Inventor: Thomas Hughes
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Publication number: 20070193330Abstract: The invention relates to a link for a crimping tool (2) comprising at least two crimping dies (12,14,16,18) and two tool handles (6,8), where the movable link (23) is arranged between the tool handles (6,8), the link (23) having an opening (72) arranged to engage a guide element (70) on a first handle (6) and being pivotally fixed to a second handle (8), where the guide element (70) is arranged to move from engagement with a first edge (71) of the opening (72) into engagement with a second opposite edge (73) of the opening (72) when the handles (6,8) are brought together to a position where the workpiece (19) is engaged by the crimping dies (12,14,16,18), the link (23) thus enabling the person using the crimping tool (2) to utilize the optimum gripping range of the hand that is about to exert a large force on the handles (6,8) in order to bring them further together for the crimping of the workpiece (19), this regardless of the dimension of the workpiece (19) to be crimped.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Inventor: Mats Norin
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Patent number: 6938452Abstract: A punch having wings is driven through framing members and then rotated. Rotation of the punch causes the wings to crimp the framing members together. An angular crimping technique where piercing members are driven through framing members in at least two different directions to crimp the framing members together. A fastenerless cinching tool pierces adjacent framing member and crimps the framing members together.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2004Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Scott Rudolph, Robert Gehret
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Patent number: 6560838Abstract: A method for repairing a sheet metal (14) of a car body (10), which comprises the steps of removing a damaged part, bending a portion near the end part of a repair member (22) with a sheet-metal repair tool, and bonding the portion near the end part of the repair member to a portion near the end part of the sheet metal (14) in place of the removed part.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2000Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Inventors: Akio Ito, Eiji Tokuhara
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Patent number: 6226874Abstract: A tool for the cutting or coining of metal, including two jaws connected to parallel links by two jaw joint bolts. Two handles are connected to each other by a handle bolt and are connected to respective jaws by two middle bolts. Each jaw joint bolt is provided with an eccentric bearing surface situated between two coaxial bearing surfaces. The distance and parallelism of the jaws can be adjusted by producing rotating of the eccentric bearing surface by rotating one or more of the jaw joint bolts. The angular motion of the jaws is synchronized by a cylindrical roller retained axially between the links, and guided in a slot formed by overlapped fingers of the jaws.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2000Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Kapman ABInventor: Conny Jansson