Dispenser box for cabling accessories, and corresponding loader

Details Dispenser box for cabling accessories, and corresponding loader Dispenser box for cabling accessories, and corresponding loader

2000-03-27

2001-11-13

Bui, Luan K. (Department: 3728)

Special receptacle or package

For a fastener

C206S345000, C221S070000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06315118

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates in general to the dispensing of cabling accessories to a tool suitable for putting them into use.
It relates more particularly to the dispensing of the type of cabling accessories which, like those commonly called terminations, are to be crimped onto the previously bared end of the conducting core of electrical conductors with a view to allowing them to be connected, in a simpler and more reliable way, to any connection terminal.
2. Description of the Related Art
More particularly still, the present invention relates to the dispensing of such cabling accessories to a crimping tool, or, put another way, to the supplying of the tool with such cabling accessories.
This crimping tool may, for example, be of the type described in the French patent which, filed on Feb. 5, 1988, under No. 88 01355, was published under No 2 626 803.
It takes the form, in practice, of pliers which are supplied with cabling accessories with the aid of a straight-line loader, that is to say with the aid of a loader suitable for receiving a straight-line arrangement of these cabling accessories, whether they are put in place in the form of a strip within which they are successively linked to one another, of whether they are put in place individually one after the other.
This arrangement has given satisfaction, and may continue to do so.
However, taking the form, in practice, of an overall rectangular plate, a straight-line loader inevitably has a relatively restricted capacity in terms of cabling accessories.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The subject of the present invention, in a general way, is an arrangement making it possible markedly to increase this capacity, if desired.
It is based on the fact, known in itself, that, when they are linked in a strip, the cabling accessories of the type in question can be arranged into a roll instead of being simply lined up, the strip which they form itself exhibiting sufficient flexibility to be able to be wound up into a spiral.
More precisely, the subject of the present invention is, first of all, a dispenser box for cabling accessories, particularly for cable terminations, characterised in that it is formed by two shells, which are brought face-to-face along a common joint surface, being duly fastened to one another, and jointly delimiting with one another an accommodation volume suitable for housing the cabling accessories to be dispensed, and in that it includes, externally, a docking element, such as a projecting rib or recessed groove, suitable for allowing it to be affixed to any other piece of equipment, with, at a distance from this docking element, an aperture suitable for the cabling accessories to pass.
Via its docking element, the dispenser box according to the invention may, for example, be affixed to a straight-line loader, thus advantageously increasing the capacity thereof.
It is sufficient, to do this, for this loader to be equipped with a docking element complementary to its own docking element.
Hence, from this point of view, a further subject of the invention is any loader which, normally able to accommodate a simple straight-line arrangement of wiring accessories, includes, externally, such a complementary docking element.
When, by way of the docking elements thus provided for this purpose, a dispenser box is affixed to such a straight-line loader, it is sufficient to introduce, into the latter, the strip of wiring accessories which it contains, transfer taking place in practice thanks to its aperture and to that of the extremities, previously cleared, of the loader which is opposite that at which the crimping occurs.
Preferably, according to one embodiment which is particularly simple and inexpensive to produce, the two shells of the dispenser box according to the invention are of a single piece with one another, being articulated to one another by a hinge area.
For example, the assembly is produced by thermo-forming.
Preferably, also, advantage is then taken of the hinge area thus present between these two shells in order to form the docking element making it possible to affix the assembly to another piece of equipment.
Thus, the construction of this docking element advantageously does not, by itself, require any other particular provision.
The characteristics and advantages of the invention will emerge further from the description which will follow, by way of example, by reference to the atached diagrammatic drawings.


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