Patent ID: 6510611
Filing Date: 2003-01-28
Classification: H02G

Abstract:
A plastic sheath scoring and slitting hand tool for scoring and slitting a non-circular cable sheath of a cable comprising:a generally flat, elongated body, a handle portion of the body adapted to be grasped by the hand, and a tool portion of the body extending outwardly from the handle portion, the tool portion exposing a sheath-scoring blade having a cutting edge following a predetermined contour selected from the group consisting of a straight contour and a convex contour fixed in the tool portion for scoring a plastic sheath to a controlled depth limited by adjacent structure of the tool portion to be not greater than a nominal thickness of the sheath, and the tool portion of the body having a generally flat sheath engaging and slitting edge including a sheath slitter having a slitting blade fixed in the tool portion and inset along the engaging and slitting edge for engaging, spreading and slitting the plastic sheath lengthwise when the handle portion is grasped and drawn along the sheathed body from a score cut of the sheath made by the sheath-scoring blade.