US755542A - Splicing-tool. - Google Patents

Description

No. 755,542. PATENTED MAR. 22, 1904. A. B. PROBASOO.

SPLIGING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 27, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented March 22, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SPLIClNG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 755,542, dated March 22, 1904:.

Application filed May 27,1903. Serial No. 158,975. (No model.) I

To all w/wm it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ABRAHAMB. PROBASCO, a citizen of the United States, residing near Lebanon, Warren county, State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Splicing-Tool; and I do declare the following to be a clear, full, and exact description thereof, attention being called to the accompanying drawings, with the reference characters marked thereon, which form also a part of this specification.

This invention relates to implements used for manipulating wire, more particularly for splicing pieces of it and where it is necessary to firmly hold these wires to each other while their ends are manipulated for splicing them.

It relates more particularly to the construe tion of the tool for so holding the wires, while the splicing manipulation proper is executed by another tool not concerned in this invention.

My invention consists, therefore, of this holding-tool and this manner of construction as the same is described and claimed in the following specification and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows the tool in perspective view and the manner of its use. Fig. 2 is a side view of it. Fig. 3 is part of an edge View of the same.- V

The tool consists, primarily, of two members A and B, connected to each other by a pivot O. They are of flat metal bars and are connected with their fiat sides resting against each other, as shown. The longer parts of these members form the manipulating-handles a and 7). Their smaller parts contain the wireengaging jaws a and b and 6, the latter two being arranged parallel to each other with a space between them, into which jaw a may pass. Jaw a further has a notch 66 of such a size as to be capable of receiving wires of the largest size which it is expected to handle.

It will be observed that there are three operative jaws provided in this tool and of which one on one side operates against two on the opposite side and also into the space between them. The notch in the one jaw is so shaped that the wire therein when the jaws close cannot slip out and is crowded into the deepest part thereof, as best shown in Fig. 2. There is nothing to prevent the opposing jaws from obtaining an unimpeded tight grip on the imprisoned wire, since there is nothing to prevent jaw a from entering and advancing into the space between the two jaws b b, which latter press the wire down into the bottom of notch 00 and also tend to bend the wire on each side of jaw thereby further intensifying the pinching effect. There is no possibility of either of the wires slipping, as is frequently the case with the usual .pincers, where one wire-the one nearest the pivot and deepest in the jaws when once engagedacts as an obstruction which prevents the jaws from closing down fully upon the other one.

The particular method of forming the splicing-joint proper has no direct bearing on my invention. In the method shown the end of each wire to be connected is closely wound around the other wire near the end thereof. Thus the end d of wire D is wound around wire E, the end 6 of which is wound around wire D.

F is the implement used for this winding. It has a hook f, whereby it is held in place on the wire, while notches f engage the end to be wound around. The manipulation is clearly shown in Fig. 1.

As to the practical construction of this tool not much need be said, since the same is very simple. In order to obtain the two jaws Z) 6 of the one member, a part b of this latter (member B) near its end is simply bent over, as shown, and arranged to be parallel to handle .7), with a space between for jaw a. This turned-over part b is of suflicient length so as to reach down to pivot O, which passes through it and holds it to its proper shape and position with the other operative parts of the tool.

Having described my invention, I claim as new- A wire-holding tool consisting of two flat members which form the jaws and handles three of them, thereby also holding the bentthereof, a part of one member near one end over part in position. 1 being bent over on itself, but with a space In testimony whereofI hereunto set my sigbetween these contiguous parts, the edges of nature in the presence of two witnesses.

which parts form double jaws on one side, the ABRAHAM B. PROBASCO. other member containing the complementary Witnesses: jaw being fitted into the space between these 0. SPENGEL,

two parts, and a pivot passing through all ALBERT MOEBUS.

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