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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1978
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1977
Willard Emanuel Rapp, Princeton, NJ (US);
Western Electric Company, Inc., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A power-operated tool functions to remove wire leads and solder from terminals e.g., terminals which include two bent lugs, without any application of heat to the leads or terminals. The tool includes a number of scrapers, each having a scraping edge. With the scraping edges initially maintained forced apart, the scrapers are positioned axially forwardly along a terminal, so as to locate the scraping edges beneath one or more soldered wire leads. The tool is then energized, causing the scrapers to be moved axially rearwardly along the terminal, and simultaneously causing the scraping edges to be moved generally radially inwardly toward one another so as to engage firmly a plurality of surfaces of the terminal. The axially moving scraping edges serve to scrape the wire lead and solder axially off the terminal. Two embodiments of the tool are disclosed.