Panduit Corporation

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Robert F Levin

Roy A Moody

Steven S Timian

John J Bulanda

Stephen A Waltasti

David W West

Lawrence A Hillegonds

Joseph F Leban

Mark B Richardson

William A Bernard

Roger D Segroves

Anton LeRoy Mika

Dianna Grant

Joseph F LeBan

William C Kearns

Thomas C Pienkowski

Brett W Johnson

Darlene Levin

Robert M Tyler

Children and adults are often seen collecting shells at the beach. Most don't know the name of the shell or anything about it. There's a need to create interest and education about seashells. There is literature which identifies seashells but nothing in the form of a game which would spark that interest. I've invented a seashell game geared for specific geographic locations that identifies indigenous seashells. The game consists of a plastic board with several indentations for specific shells to be placed into. A picture of that shell, its name and interesting information is printed next to the appropriate indentation. The object of the game is for players to fill each indentation with the proper shell within a time limit. The game provides a fun way to learn about seashells and occupy one's time while at the beach. Once filled, the game can be displayed in home, school or office.

Seashell game

A cable tie installation tool tensions a cable tie about a plurality of elongated objects and severs an excess portion of the cable tie. The cable tie includes a head portion and a tail portion. The tool includes a housing having a blade guard having a front portion and an anvil portion, a tensioning mechanism operatively supported by the housing for tensioning the cable tie to a predetermined tension setting and retaining the cable tie head portion at least partially against the blade guard, and a severing mechanism including a linearly reciprocating blade for severing the excess portion of the cable tie near the head portion once the cable tie has been placed into the predetermined tension setting by the tensioning mechanism. The linearly reciprocating blade passes behind the front portion of the blade guard and in front of the anvil portion of the blade guard.

Low tension flush cut-off cable tie installation tool

A harness board fixture with improved mounting features enables better positioning and securing of an automatic cable tie tool to the fixture. The mounting features may be provided on the same side or on opposite sides of an arcuate wire bundle support surface of the fixture. When provided on a same side, multiple mounting or locating features may be located near each other. The opposite side, forming a front of the fixture, may be open to define a readily accessible wire bundle entrance and exit path. The fixture preferably includes a mounting structure for reliably receiving and releaseably holding a push mount by snap-fit and oriented substantially perpendicular to the fixture base or at an angle.

Harness board fixture

The invention pertains to tools for removing connectors from high-density fiber optic applications, and more particularly to a tool having pivotable arms with cooperative gripping ends for facilitating the gripping, removal, and insertion of fiber optic connectors into appropriate ports or adapters.

Fiber optic connector removal tool

The present invention describes a wick cutting device, particulary designed to clip the wicks of candles to a specified length. The invention comprises two cylinders, one with a grip and one with a handle. The wick trimmer is assembled as a cylinder inside a cylinder in which the inner cylinder has a steel blade at the bottom. The inner cylinder rotates within the outer cylinder. The wick is cut with a simple twist of the handle.

Wick cutting device

An automatic cable tie installation tool that conveys the cable tie by pressurized air includes a pressure differential sensing mechanism constructed so as to identify blockages in the transfer tube to prevent subsequent propulsion of the next cable tie into the tube.

Cable tie installation tool

A portable automatic cable tie installation tool for applying individual cable ties around bundles of wires or the like utilizing a rotary driven rod having a helical groove longitudinally formed along the rod as the cable tie advancing mechanism.

Portable cable tie installation tool

An automatic harness testing apparatus test a multiconductor single connector wire harness for continuity faults in each conductive path of the wire harness by capacitively inducing an oscillatory test signal through the insulation of the conductors, probing each of the terminals of the connector and sequentially testing each probe for the presence of a test signal having a predetermined amplitude.

Apparatus for testing a wire harness and method of use

A portable cable application tool for fastening an individual cable tie around an object where the cable tie has a strap and a strap locking head and is provided in a continuous ribbon of cable ties includes upper and lower jaws for positioning the cable tie around an object to be fastened. The tool includes a cable advancing means for advancing an individual cable tie within the tool having a carriage, a carriage mounting means for mounting the carriage to the tool for reciprocal movement between a rearward position and a forward position and cable tie pusher means carried on the carriage for pushing a cable tie from a cable tie receiver means to upper and lower jaws of the tool. The carriage includes insertion cam means disposed for engaging a linkage means to pivot the upper jaw and insert the cable tie when the carriage is advanced to the forward position whereby the movement of the carriage effects the timed advancement of the cable tie within the tool and the timed insertion of the cable tie through the locking head of the cable tie.

Portable cable tie tool

A portable cable tie dispenser for providing individual cable ties from a ribbon of cable ties including a grooved cylinder for positioning the cable ties for severance from the ribbon and sequential transfer to a cable tie application tool, the grooved cylinder being driven by an electric motor disposed within the cylinder.

Portable cable tie dispenser

A modular connector press for terminating different types of connectors to a flat cable includes left and right cable tray assemblies that are mounted for accurately positioning and laterally translating the cable in a first direction transverse to the axial direction of the cable between a loading position for initial positioning of the cable and a termination position where the cable is positioned beneath a press ram. Each tray assembly includes a main body, a cable tray and means for mounting the cable tray to the main body to allow adjustable translation of the cable tray in a second direction transverse to the first direction of translation of the tray assembly means. Each cable tray includes a plurality of connector positioning slots allowing the accurate positioning of terminated connectors of a harness on each cable tray. The left and right tray assemblies can be fastened together to form a two tray unit, each tray of which, with respect to the ram of the press, can be accurately and relatively positioned in the second direction allowing the accurate positioning and termination of a third connector therebetween. The modular press also includes a plurality of different types of interchangeable connector test heads allowing the press to be easily modified to terminate and test a variety of different connectors to a connector harness.

Modular connector press

An apparatus for feeding an electrical connector to a connector termination press includes a slotted rotary drum that receives the leading connector from a ribbon of taped connectors carried on a reel, rotates the connector ninety degrees to reorient the connector and places it in a connector positioning track, and a push rod assembly that advances the connector into an aligned position underneath the ram of a connector termination press.

Connector feeding apparatus for a connector termination press

An automatic cable tie installation tool for applying discrete cable ties around bundles of wires or the like where the cable ties are provided to the tool on a continuous ribbon. The automatic tool including a dispenser mechanism that accepts the ribbon of cable ties and provides discrete cable ties therefrom; a tool mechanism that positions the discrete cable tie around the bundle of wire, tensions the tie to a preselected value and severs the tail of the cable tie; and a conveyance mechanism that delivers the cable tie provided by the dispenser mechansim to the tool mechanism. The dispenser mechanism including a reel mechanism for providing the cable tie ribbon to the dispenser mechanism, a grooved cylinder that carries individual cable ties for positioning and translating the ribbon longitudinally, an index mechanism for rotating the cylinder in accurate increments, a mechanism for separating individual cable ties from the ribbon, a guide mechanism for positioning the ribbon laterally relative to the separation means and a mechanism for transferring the separated cable ties to the conveyance mechanism. The ribbon includes a strip portion extending the length of the ribbon having a plurality of cable ties connected thereto by respective connecting tabs. The strip portion having an alignment mechanism adapted to cooperate with the guide mechanism in the dispenser to accurately position the ribbon laterally in the dispenser mechanism.

Dispenser of discrete cable ties provided on a continuous ribbon of

Ribbon of cable ties including a strip portion extending the length of the ribbon having a plurality of cable ties connected thereto by respective connecting tabs. The strip portion having an alignment mechanism adapted to cooperate with the guide mechanism in a dispenser to accurately position the ribbon laterally in the dispenser mechanism.

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Braceville, IL, United States of America

Robert F Levin