Patent ID: 6047464
Filing Date: 2000-04-11
Classification: B25B,H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A removal tool for separating components of an assembled electrical connector used for connecting electrical conductors together, the electrical connector including a connector sleeve having a general ""C"" cross section with a slot defining a stop ledge, the connector sleeve extending between a narrowed end and a broadened end, and a wedge adapted to be inserted into the connector sleeve and having a latching ledge on a lateral side for reception into the slot and terminating at a lateral side for engaging the stop ledge to prevent removal of the wedge from the connector sleeve, the removal tool comprising:a first block member including outwardly projecting laterally spaced ear means defining a slide channel therebetween for selective insertion into the slot of the connector sleeve for engagement with the stop ledge;a second block member;elongated slide pin means having a longitudinal axis integral with the second block member and projecting away therefrom, the ear means of the first block member projecting in a direction transverse of the longitudinal axis of the slide pin means;the first block member being slidably received on the slide pin means for movement toward and away from the second block member;a removal blade fixture on the second block member having a tapered nose member projecting toward the first block member and an integral shoulder facing the first block member and spaced from the tapered nose member in a direction away from the first block member, the nose member being coplanar with the ear means;such that when the assembled electrical connector is positioned on the removal tool with the ear means projecting into the slot of the connector sleeve and the narrowed end of the connector sleeve facing the second block member and the tapered nose member is inserted between the wedge and the connector sleeve movement of the first block member toward the second block member causes the nose member to advance through the slide channel between the ear means and causes the latching ledge of the wedge to disengage from the stop ledge, and such that with continued movement of the first block member toward the second block member the shoulder engages the wedge and forces removal of the wedge from the connector sleeve.