O-ring insertion tool

Details O-ring insertion tool O-ring insertion tool

1990-08-27

1991-09-24

Watson, Robert C.

Metal working

Means to assemble or disassemble

To apply or remove a resilient article

B23P 1902

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050502824

ABSTRACT:
A tool for installing an O-ring in an inwardly facing O-ring groove in an ectrical connection includes a guide shaft and a contact member slidably and rotatably received in the guide shaft. The guide shaft includes an elongated cylindrical shaft portion and a flared end portion on the shaft portion. The contact member includes an attachment portion for slidably and rotatably securing the contact member on the shaft portion and a contact finger on the attachment portion which extends in a direction toward the flared end portion of the guide shaft. The tool is operable by assembling an O-ring on the shaft portion between the flared end portion and the contact finger, inserting the flared end portion into a connection and then manipulating the contact member to advance the O-ring into an O-ring groove in the connector with the contact finger.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1621733 (1927-03-01), McCord
patent: 3030700 (1962-04-01), Jensen
patent: 3535765 (1970-10-01), Denehie
patent: 4916792 (1990-04-01), Haubus

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