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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 19, 1982
Edwin C Hardesty, Perry Hall, MD (US);
Ronald C Hardesty, Sykesville, MD (US);
AT&T Technologies, Inc., Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Abstract
A tool (20) is provided for terminating an end of a telephone cord or inside wiring with a modular plug (21). The tool includes a housing (81) having a cord or inside wiring-receiving opening at one of its ends and a plug-receiving nest (122) at an opposite end. The tool also includes a rocker (82) which is mounted pivotally in the housing and which has a first end adjacent to the cord-receiving end of the housing and a second end adjacent to the nest. After and end portion of a cord, for example, is inserted into the cord-receiving end of the housing, a user depresses the adjacent first end of the rocker to cause jacket-stripping facilities of the rocker to cut the cord jacket. When the cord is withdrawn, the jacket is removed from the end portion to expose individually insulated conductors. Then the end portion of the cord is inserted into a modular plug body which has been armed with blade-like terminals (30-30) and the plug inserted into the nest at the other end of the housing. The second end of the rocker is moved to cause portions of the rocker to seat fully the terminals in the plug body to engage electrically the insulated conductors. During the same motion of the rocker, strain relief portions of the plug body are moved into engagement with the jacket and the cord conductors to secure the plug body to the cord.