Abstract: A tool for installing an electrostatic animal guard on an overhead electrical insulator using an elongate extension hot stick pole from ground level. The tool includes a base plate and a flap connected to the plate in a manner allowing the flap to flex away from the plate so that the base of the animal guard can be frictionally gripped between the plate and flap. A contoured cavity in the face of the plate receives the base of the guard to enhance the gripping action of the tool. The tool is mounted on the elongated pole, the animal guard is received and gripped by the tool and is installed on the insulator using the pole from ground level, and the pole is pulled to overcome the frictional gripping force and release the tool from the guard.

Abstract: A separable loadbreak connector cuff venting tool having a handle formed of an electrical insulator material. An electrically insulating head is fixed on the handle's forward end. Two or more wedges, sized and shaped for slidable insertion within the cuff, are formed on the head. A rearwardly directed force applied along the handle's longitudinal axis gradually slides the wedges within the cuff, thereby venting partial vacua from within the cuff to the surrounding atmosphere and reducing the likelihood of flashover. Optionally, a clamp may be provided on a rearward portion of the handle for use in clamping the tool's handle to a hotstick handle. As another option, a pivot fulcrum may be provided on the rearward portion of the tool's handle for use in pivotally levering the tool's handle away from the hotstick handle. The tool's head, clamp and pivot fulcrum extend transversely away from the cuff venting tool, in the same direction.

Abstract: An extendable light bulb changing apparatus comprising first, second, and third telescoping sections and a bulb-gripping device coupled to the third section. At least one of the sections is composed of a non-metallic material.

Abstract: A separable loadbreak connector cuff venting tool having a handle formed of an electrical insulator material. An electrically insulating head is fixed on the handle's forward end. Two or more wedges, sized and shaped for slidable insertion within the cuff, are formed on the head. A rearwardly directed force applied along the handle's longitudinal axis gradually slides the wedges within the cuff, thereby venting partial vacua from within the cuff to the surrounding atmosphere and reducing the likelihood of flashover. Optionally, a clamp may be provided on a rearward portion of the handle for use in clamping the tool's handle to a hotstick handle. As another option, a pivot fulcrum may be provided on the rearward portion of the tool's handle for use in pivotally levering the tool's handle away from the hotstick handle. The tool's head, clamp and pivot fulcrum extend transversely away from the cuff venting tool, in the same direction.

Abstract: A tool, specifically adapted for inserting a lamp module in a lamp module receptacle and for removal of a lamp module from a receptacle, is provided with a longitudinally extending handle having opposite ends and a lamp removal head at one end of the handle for engaging the head of a lamp tether and disconnecting the tether head from a tether rail, and a lamp insertion head at an opposite end of the handle to facilitate engagement of a lamp tether head with a tether rail in a lamp receptacle.

Abstract: A tool, specifically adapted for inserting a lamp module in a lamp module receptacle and for removal of a lamp module from a receptacle, is provided with a longitudinally extending handle having opposite ends and a lamp removal head at one end of the handle for engaging the head of a lamp tether and disconnecting the tether head from a tether rail, and a lamp insertion head at an opposite end of the handle to facilitate engagement of a lamp tether head with a tether rail in a lamp receptacle.

Abstract: An implement capable of being mounted for limited articulation on a pole for installation of a guard on an elevated transformer from ground level in which the implement comprises a jaws biased toward one another to grippingly engage a guard of the type having a tongue in a fixed position in said implement for hoisting on the pole to the transformer.

Abstract: A light bulb remover for removing and replacing light bulbs of various sizes. The light bulb remover includes a pole portion and a claw portion. The pole portion has a first end and a second end. The claw portion includes a base plate. The base plate has a top side, a bottom side and a peripheral wall extending therebetween. The base plate is removably securable to the second end of the pole portion. A plurality of finger portions is coupled to the base plate. Each of the finger portions is elongate and has a distal portion and a proximal portion. Each of the distal portions is coupled to the peripheral wall of the base plate such that each of the fingers extends upwardly above the top side. The finger portions are spaced from each other. A first of the finger portions has a break therein. The break is between the distal and proximal portions. The distal portion of the first finger portion is hingedly coupled to the proximal portion of the first finger portion.