Fci Americas Technology Inc.

Gordon L Stelzer

Thomas Romeo Faucher

Christopher Gilpin Chadbourne

Alexander Shlopak

John D LeFavour

Armand Thomas Montminy

John W Ayer

A hydraulic tool having a frame, and a movable adapter. The frame defines a workspace with an anvil adapter at one end and a substantially flat face guide surface on one side of the workspace. The movable adapter is used for working a piece in the workspace against the anvil adapter. The movable adapter is movably mounted to the frame to move in the workspace relative to the frame along an axis of translation. The movable adapter has a substantially flat face seating surface seated against the guide surface of the frame. When the movable adapter is moved, the seating surface of the movable adapter rides upon the guide surface. The seating surface and guide surface interface with each other for maintaining the movable adapter in a predetermined orientation relative to the frame.

Portable hydraulic crimping tool

A head for a crimping tool assembly comprises a generally &ldquo;C&rdquo; shaped body which can withstand repeated tensile forces. The &ldquo;C&rdquo; shaped body comprises an elongated beam portion and a first arm extending in a given direction from a first end of the beam portion and a second arm extending in the given direction from an opposing end of the beam portion. The beam portion has opposed first and second elongated sides, with the plane of the first and second sides extending generally parallel to the given direction. The beam portion also has an inside elongated third side extending transversely of the given direction between the first and second sides. The beam portion further includes an outside elongated fourth side extending transversely of the given direction between the first and second sides. The third and fourth sides of the beam comprise continuous walls of a given thickness. The beam portion has a plurality of internal support ribs which extend between the first and second sides transversely of the given direction. The ribs are connected at one end to the third side wall and at their opposing end to the fourth side wall. The beam portion also has a plurality of openings or depressions in the first and second sides for reducing the weight of the beam portion, the openings or depressions are disposed in lower stress regions of the beam portion.

Crimping tool head with reinforcing beams for optimizing weight

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Goffstown, NH, United States of America

Gordon L Stelzer