Patent ID: 8955556
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: B25B,B26D,B65B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A tool for tensioning and severing an elongate cable tie, said tie having a tie head portion and tie tail portion, the tool including: a pistol-shaped housing including a handle portion and a barrel portion; an elongate trigger extending downwardly from the barrel portion, forwardly of the handle portion and displaceable toward and away from the handle portion; a locking mechanism; a tensioning mechanism in the barrel portion operable to engage a tie and apply tension to the tie in response to movement of the trigger toward the handle portion; a cutoff mechanism in the barrel portion operable to cut off the tie when the locking mechanism stops tie tensioning, wherein said cutoff mechanism is a cut off cam having an elongated slot; a tension adjustment system, wherein said tension adjustment system includes a U-bracket positioned horizontally, and slidably moveable, within said housing at a rear end of said barrel portion, said U-bracket having forward ends and a rearward end, and wherein said forward ends of said U-bracket are pivotally coupled to said cut off cam by a tension pin extending through said forward ends of said U-bracket and through said elongated slot; and biasing means to bias said rearward end of said U-bracket toward said rear of said barrel portion wherein said biasing means includes an inner and an outer tension spring.