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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1999
Edgar Wilhelm, Altersbach, DE;
Horst Hofmann, Unterschoenau, DE;
Rennsteig Werkzeuge GmbH, ViernauThueringen, DE;
Abstract
A tool for crimping contact elements of electrical conductors and formed as pliers has main levers, pressing or mouth jaws which are formed on the main levers and closed in an effective region parallel, handles operative for bringing the pressing or mouth jaws to an opening position and also to a closing or pressing position, the both main levers which carry the pressing and mouth jaws being formed each as a one-arm lever which has an end opposite to the pressing and mouth jaws, a hinge pin turnably connecting the one-arm levers with one another at the ends, and an actuating lever associated with a movable main lever, formed as an angular lever and supported in an arm part of the immovable main lever, the actuating lever being drivingly connected with the movable main lever in a region of its pressing end mouth jaw via a lever element.