Patent ID: 6347450
Filing Date: 2002-02-19
Classification: B25B,H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
A tool for mounting a cable connector of a type having a hollow connector stem defining an inner channel and a connector fastening sleeve carried by and coextensive with the connector stem, to a free distal end portion of a coaxial cable having an outer open-ended sleeve member and an inner conductor inside the cable sleeve member, with the inner conductor having a protruding portion axially protruding out of the cable outer sleeve member, said tool comprising:an integral, rigid T-shaped handle defining a straight elongated grasping segment and a second straight elongated spacing segment originating and integrally extending perpendicularly from an intermediate portion of said grasping segment and having a free extremity opposite said grasping segment, wherein a perpendicular orientation of said grasping segment relative to said spacing segment of said handle is permanent; a tool fastening sleeve fixedly and coextensively attached to said spacing segment free extremity, said tool fastening sleeve having an outer surface sized and configured for complementary engagement with the connector fastening sleeve, said tool fastening sleeve further having an inner channel sized for sliding engagement therein of the protruding portion of the cable inner conductor; an attachment member provided on said tool, for releasably fixedly attaching said connector fastening sleeve to said tool fastening sleeve, said attachment member being a thread for threadingly engaging a complementarily thread on the connector fastening sleeve; the cable connector of a type that can be removably attached to said tool fastening sleeve by engaging the connector sleeve onto said tool fastening sleeve with said attachment member operatively inter-connecting said tool and the connector;wherein said handle is provided with a stripping blade for stripping a section of the cable sleeve member away from the inner conductor for creating the inner conductor protruding portion, said stripping blade being mounted on said handle.