Patent ID: 7490504
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: B25B,H01R

Abstract:
1. A combined connector and crimping/splicing tool for coupling non-metallic sheathed cable, said combined connector and crimping/splicing tool comprising: a connector including a plurality of coextensively shaped hollow tubular sleeves monolithically formed with each other such that said tubular sleeves remain statically affixed during operating conditions, each of said tubular sleeves having a uniform and continuous outer casing directly coupled to an adjacent one of said outer casings in such a manner that said tubular sleeves are registered parallel to each other, each of said tubular sleeves further including a conductive inner casing directly mated to an interior surface of a corresponding one of said outer casings respectively, each of said inner casings being provided with a plurality of conductive, sharp knurls radially protruding inwardly towards a center of said tubular sleeves respectively, said knurls being equidistantly spaced along an entire inner perimeter of said inner casings respectively, each of said inner perimeters of said inner casings being equidistantly offset from a corresponding center of said tubular sleeves respectively; and a hand-operated tool comprising wherein said connector is statically intercalated directly between said first and second jaws when said first and second jaws are pivoted to the closed position thereof such that a first set of wires is telescopically inserted from an open first end of said connector while a second set of wires is telescopically inserted through a second open end of said connector, said first and second jaws crushing said sleeves directly about said first and second set of wires such that said conductive knurls bridge a conductive path between said first and second set of wires respectively.