Metal working – Means to assemble or disassemble – Means to disassemble electrical device
Patent
1982-02-26
1983-12-20
Hall, Carl E.
Metal working
Means to assemble or disassemble
Means to disassemble electrical device
29235, 29253, 29268, 294266, H01R 4300
Patent
active
044208790
ABSTRACT:
A manually operated device (10) adapted to facilitate the removal of a solderless type flat cable connector (15) from the terminated end of a flat cable (19) and, more particularly, to effect the release and pivotal separation of a first connector housing section (17) from a mating second housing section (18) normally snap-lock-secured thereto. The device (10) comprises a pair of pivotally connected, plier-like gripping members (21, 22) that are, in turn, respectively pivotally connected, as well as cross-coupled, to a pair of fixture-supporting gripping jaws (28, 34). As interconnected, the jaws advantageously move in parallel relationship in clamping a third connector housing section (16), fixedly secured to the second housing section (18), between two mutually disposed jaw-supported nesting blocks (42, 44), one (42) being mounted to the associated jaw (28) in a spring-biased manner. The jaw (28) with the spring-biased nesting block further supports cooperative fixturing in the form of a pair of laterally disposed blade members (52, 53), that project upwardly toward the opposing jaw, and an associated pair of similarly oriented, and spring-biased, drive pins (56, 57). The blade members (52, 53), when advanced in response to the clamping action of the jaws (28, 34), are adapted (through wedging action) to effect the snap-locked release of two laterally disposed U-shaped locking details (17b', c'), formed in the first housing section (17), from two respectively associated outwardly tapered detents (18b', c'), formed in the second housing section (17) of a clamped connector (15).
REFERENCES:
patent: 3157075 (1964-11-01), Filia
patent: 3641652 (1972-02-01), Arnold et al.
patent: 4290193 (1981-09-01), Anderton et al.
patent: 4373258 (1983-02-01), Hutchins
Bergum K. R.
Hall Carl E.
Miller R. P.
Western Electric Company Inc.
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