Patent ID: 8245560

Claim:
Crimping pliers designed and arranged for manually crimping a work piece comprising a) two manually operated hand levers, b) two crimping jaws, c) a transfer mechanism coupling a movement of said hand levers with a movement of said crimping jaws, d) a closing mechanism designed and arranged for being operated independent on said hand levers for the work piece being introduced between said crimping jaws, e) said closing mechanism being arranged and designed such that upon activation of said closing mechanism said crimping jaws are moved from an open state in a partial movement into a further closed starting state, f) said crimping jaws being secured in said starting state against returning into said open state by means of a rest lever engaging a pinion of said transfer mechanism, wherein g) starting from said starting state said crimping jaws being movable in an additional partial movement towards each other upon movement of said hand levers wherein forces applied upon said hand lever are transferred via the rest lever to pinion.