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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2002
Paul Alan Dunham, Milton Keynes, GB;
William Jordan Siegel, Bethesda, MD (US);
Gary Silas Sines, Woodbine, MD (US);
John Franklin Wood, New Windsor, MD (US);
Jeffrey Alan Snell, Abindgon, MD (US);
John Walter, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Charles H. McDavid, Nottingham, MD (US);
Pace, Incorporated, Annapolis Junction, MD (US);
Abstract
A soldering heater cartridge with replaceable tips and a soldering iron for use therewith is constructed of a tip heater cartridge with an elongated cartridge body that has a tubular body member, electrical connectors at a first end of the tubular body member for plug-in connection with an electrical connector assembly of a soldering iron handpiece, a soldering tip for mounting on the cartridge body and a heater mounted within the cartridge body and electrically connected to the electrical connectors. The tip end part is located at a second end of the cartridge body and the heater is located within the tip end part, the soldering tip being replaceably mountable over the tip end part in heat exchange contact with it.