Patent ID: 7409897

Claim:
A cable stripper apparatus for stripping insulation from an electric cable, said apparatus comprising: a framework; a driven wire feeder rotatably secured to said framework; a guide for guiding the cable towards said wire feeder; said guide including: a movable spacer bar extending towards said wire feeder; a cutter having a cutting edge disposed spaced and parallel to an axis of rotation of said wire feeder, said cutter being connected to said framework immediately adjacent to said wire feeder, the arrangement being such that when the cable is guided by said guide towards said wire feeder, said wire feeder, spacer bar and said cutter cooperate with each other for stripping the insulation from the cable; a cam rotatably supported by said framework for moving said movable spacer bar relative to said framework to a required location of a plurality of locations of said movable spacer bar, said cam defining a plurality of cam faces such that when said cam is selectively rotated, a corresponding cam face of said plurality of cam faces cooperates with and moves said spacer bar to said required location of said spacer bar for guiding a particular gauge wire towards said cutter; a movable gate which cooperates with said cam such that when said cam is selectively rotated, said movable gate rides on said cam faces so that said movable gate is correspondingly moved relative to said framework by said cam faces; and a biasing device disposed between said framework and said movable gate for urging said movable gate towards said cam as said movable gate rides on said cam faces.