Patent ID: 6186387
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: B23K

Abstract:
A vacuum desoldering tool having a body with a heating cartridge on one end thereof, the heating cartridge having an aperture in which an exchangeable, hollow desoldering tip is inserted with a riser tube extension of the desoldering tip extending into a capsule end seal, a vacuum line connector for connection to a vacuum line being provided at an opposite end of the body from the heating cartridge, and a detachable holding part having a capsule holding tube for holding a cylindrical disposable solder receiving capsule in axial alignment between an inner end of the vacuum connector and the capsule end seal; where said holding tube is open at each of opposite ends thereof for enabling a solder receiving capsule received therein to be removed from one of said opposite ends of the holding tube by pushing another soldering capsule into the other of said opposite ends of the holding tube when the detachable holding part is detached from the body of the desoldering tool.