Patent ID: 8549727
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: B26F,H01R,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A blade for a punch-down tool, the blade comprising: a first end that has a seating edge for seating a wire into a terminal, an elongated slot, and a groove; a second end that has a seating edge for seating a wire into a terminal, a cutting edge, an elongated slot, and a groove; an elongated section that joins the first end to the second end; and a locking collar section located along the elongated section and configured to reversibly fix the blade into a punch-down tool in a manner so that the first end is proximate to the punch-down tool and the second end is distal from the punch-down tool, and also in a manner so that the first end is distal to the punch-down tool and the second end is proximate to the punch-down tool; the locking collar section being configured to be locked to the elongated section at a first location proximate to the first end and at a second location proximate the second end, and the locking collar section being configured so as to be slidably movable along the elongated section from the first location to the second location and from the second location to the first location when the locking collar section is not locked to the elongated section.