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Compression tool jawset

US7260975B2 · kind B2 · utility

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36Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateFeb 16, 2005
Grant dateAug 28, 2007
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Expiry dateSep 4, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB25B27/10
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A compression tool having a pair of jaw arms pivotal between side plates and having inner edges provided with laterally inwardly open opposed spring pin recesses providing an opening therebetween for a spring pin, and a spring associated with the pin and biasing the jaw arms in a closing direction and biasing the spring pin rearwardly of the spring pin opening has one or the other or both the spring pin opening and spring pin modified for the pin to be displaced from the spring pin opening or canted therein in response to a fracture of at least one of the jaw arms outwardly from the corresponding pin recess toward the outer edge of the jaw arm.

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