Wire stripping tool

Claim 2

A handtool for cleaving and stripping off the severable support wire of a plastic covered telephone cable comprising a rigid elongated head having toP and bottom surfaces, said top surface being adapted to be oriented with and progressively slid along the cable, said head having forward and rearward ends and said rearward end having a rigid integrally attached handle, said head having a guideway adapted to have the support wire cooperatively but retentively and releasably keyed therein, and a cleaving blade carried by said head and coordinated with said top surface and having a cutting edge bridging and coacting with said guideway, said guideway embodying recess means and associated groove means, said recess means permitting the tool to be bodily attached and detached at whatever point desired along the length of the overall cable, said groove means constituting the principal components of the guideway and embodying forward and rearward grooves for operable slidable reception and retention of the support wire, said guideway being characterized by forward and rearward abutments rising to a plane above said top surface, said abutments having spaced inboard lengthwise edge portions, said edge portions having said open-ended grooves, said grooves being adapted to receive and retentively hold said support wire in a web severing position.

Claim 3

The tool defined in and according to claim 1 and wherein one abutment is provided with an oblique-angled ledge, said ledge provided with a shoulder, said blade being accessibly and removably seated on said ledge and being reversible and having a cutting edge bridging said guideway.

Claim 4

A handtool for cleaving and stripping off the severable support wire of a plastic covered telephone cable comprising a rigid elongated head having top and bottom surfaces, said top surface being adapted to be oriented with and progressively slid along the cable, said head having forward and rearward ends and said rearward end having a rigid integrally attached handle, said head having a guideway adapted to have the support wire cooperatively but retentively and releasably keyed therein, and a cleaving blade carried by said head and coordinated with said top surface and having a cutting edge bridging and coacting with said guideway, said guideway embodying recess means and associated groove means, said recess means permitting the tool to be bodily attached and detached at whatever point desired along the length of the overall cable, said groove means constituting the principal components of the guideway and embodying forward and rearward grooves for operable slidable reception and retention of the support wire, said guideway embodying forward and rearward elevated abutments, said abutments having straight lengthwise inboard longitudinal edges in substantial alignment with the longitudinal axis of said head and said edges having confronting surfaces and said surfaces having said open-ended grooves, one groove to the left and the other groove to the right of the lengthwise axis, said grooves having a cross-sectional dimension to receive half portions of the support wire in a manner to hold the support wire in a given web cutting position, the rearward end of the forward abutment having an oblique-angled ledge and said ledge being provided with a blade positioning shoulder, said blade being removably mounted on said ledge and fastened in contact with the shoulder, said blade being reversible and having a cutting edge bridging said guideway.

Claim 5

A handtool for cleaving and stripping off the severable support wire of a plastic covered telephone cable comprising a rigid elongated head having top and bottom surfaces, said top surface being adapted to be oriented with and progressively slid along the cable, said head having forward and rearward ends and said rearward end having a rigid integrally attached handle, said head having a guideway adapted to have the support wire cooperatively but retentively and releasably keyed therein, and a cleaving blade carried by said head and coordinated with said top surface and having a cutting edge bridging and coacting with said guideway, said guideway embodying recess means and associated groove means, said recess means permitting the tool to be bodily attached and detached at whatever point desired along the length of the overall cable, said groove means constituting the principal components of the guideway and embodying forward and rearward grooves for operable slidable reception and retention of the support wire, said guideway embodying forward and rearward elevated abutments, said abutments having straight lengthwise inboard longitudinal edges in substantial alignment with the longitudinal axis of said head and said edges having confronting surfaces and said surfaces having said open-ended grooves, one groove to the left and the other groove to the right of the lengthwise axis, said grooves having a cross-sectional dimension to receive half portions of the support wire in a manner to hold the support wire in a given web cutting position, the rearward end of the forward abutment having an oblique-angled ledge and said ledge being provided with a blade positioning shoulder, said blade being removably mounted on said ledge and fastened in contact with the shoulder, said blade being reversible and having a cutting edge bridging said guideway.

Claim 6

The tool defined in and according to claim 3 and wherein said handle is T-shaped in plan and embodies a relatively short stout shank joined at its forward end to the rearward end of said head and also embodying a crosshead which is joined to the rearward end of said shank, said crosshead providing a pair of outstanding fingergrips, whereby to facilitate handling and steadily pulling the overall tool along and in contact with said support wire and the web which is joined to a peripheral surface of said support wire.

Claim 7

The tool defined in and according to claim 4 and wherein the aforementioned top surface is provided with a rearward recess opposed to the grooved edge Of said rearward abutment, a second recess adjacent and opposed to the grooved surface of said forward abutment, the rearward end of the forward abutment and forward end of the rearward abutment having oblique-angled surfaces disposed in spaced apart parallelism, and the adjacent ends of said recesses being oriented with each other and joined in communicating relation by way of said recess means, said recess means being parallel to the oblique ends of the abutments and the several recesses serving to facilitate attaching the tool to the overall cable at any selected point in a manner that the tool can be bodily turned through an angle of approximately 45* toward the cable so as to facilitate attaching and detaching the tool.