Patent ID: 7384086

Claim:
A device for the removal or insertion of a fuse, in particular an automobile safety fuse, from or into a fuse-base in a fuse strip, comprising: a first and a second elongate arms each having a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end portion of at least one of the first and the second arms having an engaging section that is engageable with the fuse; a first connecting section connecting the first and the second arms with each other and being provided proximally to the engaging section; a second connecting section being provided at a distance proximally to the first connecting section to connect the first and the second arms, wherein the first and the second connecting sections and the first and the second arms have articulations arranged in such a way that reducing the distance between the two arms in the portion between the two connecting sections causes the distance between the distal ends of the two arms to increase, and that reducing the distance between the two arms in the portion lying proximally to the second connecting section causes the distance between the distal ends of the two arms to decrease, and wherein the articulations on the two arms in the portion between the two connecting sections are formed by reducing the wall thickness of the two arms.