Patent ID: 6910401

Claim:
In a cable-stripping pliers having two clamping jaws pivotally mounted, said jaws including two co-acting clamping elements for gripping a cable to be stripped; said pliers further having two legs pivotable relative to one another to pivotally drive the damping jaws, a culling unit including two pivotally mounted arms spring-biased away from each other and carrying at their free ends mutually coacting cutting elements for culling through a casing to be stripped from the cable, said culling unit being received between the damping jaws and arranged for movement therealong, a pull rod connected to the culling unit, and a mechanism connected to the pliers legs on one side and to the clamping elements and the pull rod on another side, said mechanism being adapted to cause the clamping elements and the culling unit to engage the cable initially when dosing the clamping jaws, and thereafter, while essentially retaining their grip, withdrawing the pull rod and therewith the cutting unit with the cable gripped by the damping elements upon continued movement of said legs towards each other, the improvement comprising: said pull rod carrying a pin extending in a direction normal to a movement plane of the clamping jaws, said pin projecting freely from the pull rod; and said cutting unit having an opening in which the pin engages for entraining or dogging the cutting unit along the clamping jaws, one arm of said cutting unit carrying a body arranged for movement along said one arm and forming an abutment surface for an end of the cable to be stripped, said body carrying a latching finger which in one end position of the body engages a recess in the other arm, said recess for receiving said finger when the body is displaced towards said end position as the arms of the cutting unit are brought together such that engagement of said latching finger and said recess locks the arms of the cutting unit in a closed condition.