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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1989
Alan D Anderson, Sumter, SC (US);
Roland C White, Sumter, SC (US);
Cooper Industries, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A locking plier having a pair of opposed, pivotable work-gripping jaws with facing curved portions on each jaw between the tip and the pivot, and transverse work-gripping teeth in the curved portion of each jaw, the face of the teeth in the curved portion of one jaw which faces toward the handle being at an angle of from about 75.degree. to about 85.degree. to the primary form centerline, and the face of the teeth in the curved portion of the other jaw which faces away from the handle being at an angle of from about 75.degree. to about 85.degree. to the primary form centerline, each such tooth having an included angle of from about 45.degree. to about 90.degree..