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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1981
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1979
Kurt O Moebius, Torrance, CA (US);
Hackforth GmbH & Co. KG, Herne, DE;
Abstract
An assembly tool for tube fittings, including a pair of pivotal manually operated channel-shapped unique leg lever handles which nest one in the other and are provided with a pair of jaws which are connected to the lever handles by a set of low friction rotatable journal shafts, the extremities of the journal shafts being journalled in the lower handles; the journal shafts being positions to maintaine the jaws in parallel relation, while under load, and are provided with coaxial channels to receive the ends of a tube fitting and press the ends of the tube fitting toward each other thereby to cause interengagement of the fitting components; the jaws being readily interchangeable to assemble fittings of a different size or construction. A further embodiment includes a clamp means incorporated in one of the channels to grip a portion of the tube element, the other jaw receiving a flaring (swaging) tool for the clamped tube element.