Patent ID: 7454829

Claim:
A cabling tool, comprising: a cable sorting threader with spaced apart holes sized to pass individual cables therethrough; and a cable labeling system mountable against the cable sorting threader, the cable labeling system configured and arranged i) to align two adjacent cable labels vertically over each hole and vertically over a corresponding cable passing through each hole, and ii) to allow correct transfer of a first label of the two cable labels to a beginning end of the corresponding cable located vertically below the first label and transfer of a second label of the two cable labels to a terminal end of the corresponding cable located vertically below the second label, the thus-applied first and second labels serving as beginning-of-pull and end-of-pull labels to correctly identify the beginning and terminal ends of the individual cables being pulled, further comprising: a pair of frame arms ( 30 , 30 ′) supporting the cable sorting threader ( 50 ); and an overall lower frame ( 20 ) providing a base to support cable axles ( 90 ) carrying cable, the frame arms ( 30 , 30 ′) supported by the lower frame, the frame arms fixable upright orthogonal to the lower frame in a tool ready for use condition and coextensive with the lower frame in a tool ready for transport condition, the tool being extended, at least in a vertical direction, in the ready for use condition and compacted, at least in the vertical direction, in the ready for transport condition, wherein, the overall lower frame ( 20 ) comprises i) a removable staging bar, ii) a pair of outside elements ( 21 , 22 ), and iii) a pair of inside elements, the pair of outside elements connected to the pair of inside elements, the pair of inside elements relocatable from i) a horizontally compacted position with a length of each of the inside elements parallel adjacent to a corresponding length of each of the outside elements to ii) an extended horizontal position with the inside elements lengthwise longitudinally aligned with the outside elements, the frame arms ( 30 ) are mounted within the lower frame, the frame arms extending upright with respect to the lower frame in a ready for use condition, the pair of frame arms being coextensive with the lower frame in a ready for transport condition, the staging bar connected, at a first position, to the pair of outside elements in the ready for transport condition, the staging bar connected, at a second position, to the pair of inside elements in the ready for use condition with the lower frame configured to support plural cable axles with each of the plural cable axles adjacently mounting plural cable reels, and the tool is reconfigurable from the ready for transport condition to the ready for use condition by i) relocation of the staging bar from the first position to the second position, ii) relocation of said inner elements from the compacted position to the extended position, and iii) moving the pair of frame arms from being coextensive with the lower frame to being orthogonal to the lower frame.