Patent ID: 7503201

Claim:
A crimping tool comprising: a first, fixed, jaw member; a second, moving, jaw member pivotally connected to the first jaw member at a first pivot location; a first link having first and second ends connected at the first end to the second jaw member at a second pivot location defined by a pivot member; a second link pivotally connected to the first link second end at a third pivot location and pivotally connected to the first fixed jaw member at a fourth fixed pivot location; a first, moving, handle attached to the third pivot location; a second fixed handle rigidly connected to the first fixed jaw; a third link connected at a first end thereof to the first handle at a fifth pivot location defined by a pivot member and pivotally connected at an opposite second end thereof to the first jaw member at a sixth fixed pivot location; wherein at least one of the first link first end and the third link first end are movable between first and second positions relative to the pivot member at the second pivot location and the pivot member at the fifth pivot location, respectively; and wherein, closing the first handle toward the second handle drives the first and second links through the third pivot location to rotate the second jaw member about the first pivot location in a first rotational direction, to rotate the first link in the same first rotational direction, to rotate the second link in a second, opposite, rotational direction, and to rotate the third link in the first rotational direction about the sixth pivot location, to close the first and second jaw members a first distance when at least one of the first link first end and the third link first end are in the first position and to further close the first and second jaw members a second distance when at least one of the first link first end and the third link first end are in the second position.