Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181350 | Precision cutting system A precision cutting system for efficiently cutting through an external member (i.e. conduit, etc.) without damaging internal components (i.e. wires, cables, etc.). The precision cutting system generally includes a first support structure including a first inner end ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8042273 | Slitter with mechanical holding finger A slitter for slitting a guide catheter is assembled from a handle, a blade assembly coupled to the handle, and a holding mechanism coupled to the handle. The blade assembly includes a shroud for receiving an elongated body of a medical device and a slitting blade h... | 10/25/2011 |
| 7647700 | Device for the removal of H-taps A device for the removal of a H-tap splice on an electrical wire is presented. The device includes a c-shaped frame and a blade suitable for cutting the H-tap. A drive bolt forces the H-tap into the H-tap cutting blade. The drive bolt has a tightening end and an H-t... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7346985 | Bearing assembly spacer adjustment system and method for adjusting spacer A system for adjusting at least one spacer of a bearing assembly includes a force-transmitting member and a preload regulator. The force-transmitting member is configured to operatively receive a force and to transmit the force to an adjustable spacer. The preload r... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338481 | Slitting tool A slitting tool for severing a tubular body includes a body portion, extending along a first axis, joined to a nose portion extending along a second axis, the second axis extending at an angle between approximately 5 degrees and approximately 90 degrees with respect... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7316058 | Coaxial cable stripper A coaxial cable stripper, which includes a hollow cylindrical body, which has two transverse through holes and two longitudinal sliding slots, a spring member fixedly mounted inside the hollow cylindrical body, and two movable cutter holders respectively supported o... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7264001 | Guidewire exit tool A guidewire exit tool includes a pin that is insertable into a guidewire channel of a rapid exchange-type catheter. The pin has at least one tapered end that urges a guidewire out of a slit in guidewire channel. In one embodiment the exit tool has an oval handle tha... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7243429 | Wire stripper systems A hand-held system adapted to assist stripping of an undulating outer jacket of a twisted pair wire. The system incorporates cutters to provide two longitudinal cuts through the outer jacket of the twisted shielded pair wire. The cutters are removable and replaceabl... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7174640 | Tool for cutting cable ties leaving a round end The present invention presents a pliers-like hand tool with special shaped cutting edges and grooved guides in the jaws of the tool so that when used to cut off the unwanted ends of cable ties the cable tie can be guided into the tool and positioned for cuffing the ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171753 | Multi-cable jacket removal tool A tool for mid-span cable stripping having a wheel enclosure surrounding an inner wheel with at least one cable saddle formed in an outer circumference, the cable saddle(s) adapted to rotatably cradle a cable of a desired outer diameter. The wheel enclosure having a... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7172370 | Cutting system, device, and method for splitting pipes A cutting system for splitting pipes includes a main body and at least one blade and at least two blade mount assemblies by which the blade may optionally be connected to the main body. The first blade mount assembly, in a particular fitted state, holds the blade at... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7103978 | Tool and method for stripping sheath from a cable A tool and method for using the tool to strip a sheath from an end of the cable wherein the tool includes a tube; a cylindrical plunger slideably positioned in the tube; a yoke having a U shape. The yoke is attached to and spaced from one end of the tube and is alig... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7082856 | Wire stripper system A wire stripper having at least two resiliently flexible blades each of which terminate in an insulator stripper disposed in opposed relation operably responsive to a slidly engaged insulated wire to release the insulator from the wire. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7040020 | Wire stripper A wire stripper that can be utilized to rapidly strip insulation from a number of wires simultaneously and can be used simultaneously on a variety of different gauge wires. A stripping block has a plurality of wire apertures of varying diameters. Cooperating and con... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7029460 | Slitting tool A slitting tool is provided for severing a tubular body such as the body of an introducer or a guide catheter that is positioned around an implantable medical device (IMD) such as a lead or another catheter. The slitting tool includes a body member that has a surfac... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6968762 | Pipe preparing tool V This invention relates to pipe preparing tools, and more particularly to a novel pipe preparing tool suitable for cutting, scoring or penetrating a surface of a plastics pipes. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6964098 | Mid-sheath cable preparation tool The present invention is an apparatus and method for removing a portion of a cable sheath. First and second opposing blades are adjustable to a cutting depth using adjustment screws and continuity testers that signal contact between each blade and a metallic sub-she... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6910275 | Cable-stripping tool A cable-stripping tool having a body with first and second openings in an upper wall thereof, a central pin mounted in the body with an upper end thereof carrying a cutting blade and projecting through the first opening, and a hook having a concave side which faces ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6895671 | System and method for repairing a conduit A metal tube slitter is presented. A housing includes a drive shaft for moving cable through the housing and a blade truck. The blade truck houses a blade used for penetrating the cable. A shoulder screw adjusts the blade truck and as a result adjusts the penetratio... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6662450 | Wire and cable stripper A tool manipulating device includes a combination of depth setting, length adjusting and workpiece clamp members provided on a longitudinal hand-held handle. The depth setting member has a blade assembly that extends perpendicular to the hand-held handle.... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6581291 | Cable stripping tool An adjustable cable slitting tool for longitudinally slitting optical fiber buffer tubes and other precision cables includes a T-shaped body and a guide that slides relative to the body to hold and guide the cable to be slit in a guide channel. A slitting... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6568085 | Grip removal apparatus An apparatus for removing golf club grips. The apparatus (10) includes a body (12) with an integral handle (14). The body further includes a shaft guide (16) with concave portions (18) and (20) for guiding the apparatus along the shaft of the golf club. T... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6556760 | Optical fiber ribbon separation tool A ribbon separation tool (10) for separating optical fiber ribbons (C1,C2,C3) into subsets of optical fibers. Ribbon separation tool (10) includes a stationary shearing device (70), and a moveable shearing device (50), the moveable shearing device (50) is... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6502310 | Cable insulation slitting tool A tool for stripping the outer layer of insulation on a multi-wire cable such as romex, comprises a jaw and a claw, each being mounted to the rotating members of a plier-like apparatus. The claw has a sharp cutting edge, and the jaw holds the cable in pos... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6427331 | Slitting and shaving tool for messengered cable A slitting and shaving tool for separating a coaxial cable with a curved outer surface from an adjacent cable connected to it with a web of insulating material. The tool includes a slitting blade for cutting through the web to separate the cables and a sh... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6401570 | Cable stripping tool A cable stripping tool, for stripping insulation from a cable that includes a stripper cord, includes a cylindrical mandrel having first and second ends, with a cord end receptacle formed in at least one end. The receptacle is dimensioned to receive the e... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6401339 | Apparatus for cutting a coin roll wrapper An apparatus for cutting a coin roll wrapper includes a housing, a front cover, a blade spring assembly and a safety spring. The housing includes a top opening and a bottom opening, both of which are sized to receive a roll of coins therethrough. A prefer... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6381850 | Wire stripping and preparation apparatus A cable stripping tool for the preparation of high voltage cable for termination or splicing by simultaneously removing the semiconducting sheathing from a section of cable and insulation and sheathing from the end section of the cable to expose the condu... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6334253 | Adjustable wire stripper An adjustable wire stripper includes a housing, a cutter holder revolvably mounted in a top open chamber of the housing and holding a cutter outside the housing for cutting the insulator of an electric wire, a lever adapted to rotate the cutter holder in ... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6247235 | Sheathing slitter and cutter tool A combined sheathing stripper and sheathing cutter tool for non-metallic sheathed cable. The tool includes a body that is used to retain a slitter-blade and a cutter-blade. The slitter-blade includes a first knife edge that is located on a first side of t... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6164163 | Process for mechanically removing the encapsulating material from a fiber-optic ribbon cable and tool for implementing the process The tool is constituted, on one hand, by a lower plate (12) traversed by a calibrated orifice, between an admission chamber (14) equipped with a roller (18) and a cutting plate (15) and, on the other hand, by an upper cover (22) also pierced by an opening... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6148521 | Method and apparatus for slitting optical power ground wires A tube slitter for removing the outer metallic cladding of an optical power ground wire includes a channel guide for directing the movement of the tube slitter along the length of the ground wire. The ground wire includes an inner grooved spacer that enga... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6131289 | Cable slitter A cable slitter for separating side-by-side cables connected by a web of insulating material, particularly coaxial cables, includes a slitting blade for separating the cables and a shaving blade for removing excess web material. The shaving blade is mount... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6108910 | Device and method for stripping a cable A device for stripping a cable having a body with a channel extending therethrough and a knife affixed to a narrow end of the body and having a cutting edge extending at an acute angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the body. The body has a generall... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6105480 | Apparatus for separating ribbon-coated multicore optical fiber An apparatus for separating a ribbon-coated multicore optical fiber at a plurality of positions at once, wherein the ribbon-coated multicore optical fiber includes a number of single-core fibers arranged in parallel. This apparatus comprises a first cutti... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6079297 | Fiber optic precision linear stripper A linear stripper for removing a coating on a fiber optic cable, includes a guide rail and a cutting assembly slidably connected to the guide rail. The cutting assembly has a passage configured to accommodate a fiber optic cable threaded therethrough. A b... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6079104 | Stripping tool The stripping tool for removing the insulations of single- or multicore electrical cables provided with multiple layers of insulation has two trough-shaped jaws (4, 5), which are hinged together and can pivot toward one another. In a common tool end face,... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6079105 | Cable sheath stripping tool A tool including a handle, a blade-carrying portion attached to a first portion of the handle and a guide portion attached to a second portion of the handle. The second portion of the handle is movable with respect to the first portion of the handle there... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6073349 | Wire stripper A wire stripper has a blade (33) projecting from a carrier (35) mounted in a handle (56). A hook-shaped wire clam (45) is slidably mounted in the handle and is spring-urged towards a position where a wire is pressed by the clamp on to the blade. The clamp... | 06/13/2000 |
| 6067715 | Wire and cable stripping tool The present invention is a tool for stripping a sliver-like section of the outer sheath from a multi-conductor cable or insulation from an insulated wire. The tool includes a blade and interconnected blade guide to strip the outer sheath from a cable or i... | 05/30/2000 |
