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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Darryle E. Bates, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
Assignee:
Stride Tool, Inc., Ellicottville, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25F 1/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25F 1/00 ;
Abstract
A plier tool for cutting multi-conductor electrical cables is disclosed. The tool has a pair of levers having pivotally connected boss portions. The levers also having coacting handle and jaw portions on opposite sides of the boss portions such that upon manipulation of the handles toward one another the jaw portions close to perform a work operation. The jaw portions include coactable cutter sections each having stepped parts oriented such that on closure on a multi-conductor cable a first pair of the parts will substantially sever a first conductor before a second pair of the parts commences to sever a second conductor.