81 |
Three-Dimensional Wire Bending Jig |
US14922337 |
2015-10-26 |
US20160136719A1 |
2016-05-19 |
Wyatt White |
A three-dimensional wire bending jig is disclosed. The jig includes a tubular body having an outer diameter and an inner diameter. The body has a plurality of through-openings formed therein. The plurality of through-openings form a repeating pattern around the body. A kit including the jig, a plurality of pins, and a retaining member is also provided. |
82 |
Jewelry mandrel pliers and method of using same |
US13491755 |
2012-06-08 |
US09227304B2 |
2016-01-05 |
Patricia Bullard |
The present invention provides a mandrel tool and method for more efficiently and consistently forming various shapes of material. In one embodiment of the invention, a pair of pliers having mandrel jaws that are shaped with a uniform cross sectional area throughout a length of the mandrel jaw is used to replace the traditional tapered mandrel. Because the mandrel jaws have a uniform cross sectional area, the wire, for example, can be wrapped multiple times around the mandrel jaw when it is desired to produce multiples of the same shape. For added versatility, the pliers can have opposing mandrel jaws with different size cross sectional area. |
83 |
Method of making border wire |
US13851331 |
2013-03-27 |
US09156077B2 |
2015-10-13 |
Von W. Brottlund; Travis L. Brummett; Kelly M. Knewtson; Thomas J. Mitchell |
An apparatus is provided which makes a border wire having a rectangular cross-section. The apparatus is adapted to receive a roll of wire having a circular cross-section, straighten the wire and change the cross-section of the wire to rectangular. The reconfigured wire is then accumulated, passed through another straightener, cut to size and then bent into a rectangular configuration. Opposed ends of the piece of wire having a rectangular cross-section are welded together to complete the border wire. The apparatus has an ejector which removes the completed border wire from the apparatus. |
84 |
Apparatus and methods for bending wire |
US13524282 |
2012-06-15 |
US09067257B2 |
2015-06-30 |
Wyatt A. White |
An apparatus for bending wire is disclosed. The apparatus for bending wire comprises a pair of forming parts pivotably connected at a joint. The first forming part has a receiving section and the second forming part has a projecting section. The receiving section has a bottom surface and a pair of opposing sidewalls extending toward the second forming part. The projecting section has a projection extending toward the first forming part. The receiving section and the projecting section are sized to bend a wire into a pair of substantially right angles when the wire is positioned between the receiving section and the projecting section and when the second forming part is pivoted such that the projection is received between the pair of opposing sidewalls. A method for bending wire with the above-described apparatus is also disclosed. |
85 |
CABLE FOLDING DEVICE |
US14177495 |
2014-02-11 |
US20140318207A1 |
2014-10-30 |
GUANG YANG |
A cable folding device includes a base, a push element slidably connected to the base, and an elastic element connected between the base and the push element. One end of the base is curved to form two parallel position pins used to engage a cable. The push element includes a push sheet set on one end. The push sheet is aligned with a space between the two position pins. The push sheet is pushed by an external force to move towards the cable until the push sheet folds the cable between the two position pins. The elastic element is recoiled to drive the push sheet to return to an original position. |
86 |
Rod benders and methods of use |
US13272521 |
2011-10-13 |
US20130091921A1 |
2013-04-18 |
Bryan Wilcox; Brian Butler |
A rod bender includes an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end and extending along a longitudinal axis; a first arm having a proximal end attached to the distal end of the body and extending transversely therefrom and having a longitudinal axis offset from the longitudinal axis of the body; and a second arm having a proximal end attached to the distal end of the body and extending transversely therefrom and having a longitudinal axis offset from the longitudinal axis of the body and offset from the longitudinal axis of the first arm, said second arm including a channel positioned toward a distal end of said second arm, said channel having a longitudinal axis substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the second arm. |
87 |
BENDING INSTRUMENT AND METHODS OF USING SAME |
US13078546 |
2011-04-01 |
US20120247173A1 |
2012-10-04 |
Anthony James Paris; Gan Wu; Brian Patrick Glasheen, JR.; Jacob Thompson |
A bending instrument is disclosed having first and second lever assemblies. The first lever assembly has a first lever and a first bending member, and the second lever assembly has a second lever that is configured for pivotal motion relative to the first lever. The bending instrument also has a gear assembly that is rotatively coupled to a distal portion of the first lever and which defines a lobe on which a second bending member is mounted. The second bending member of the gear assembly is configured to be angularly rotated upon the pivotal rotation of the second lever relative to the first lever. |
88 |
SAFETY WIRE PLIER |
US13389731 |
2010-08-10 |
US20120186688A1 |
2012-07-26 |
Barry J. Harrison; Terrence D. Kalley; John Burke; Daniel W. Brass; Ronald Fred Johnson |
A safety wire plier includes a pair of plier arms with each of the arms including a jaw end and a handle. The plier arms of the safety wire plier are pivotally connected to each other for movement in either an open or closed position. The safety wire plier also includes a sealed lock for releasably locking the safety wire plier in the closed position. |
89 |
Wire forming plier and electrical multi-tool |
US12543987 |
2009-08-19 |
US08176814B1 |
2012-05-15 |
Steven J Bernstein; Stephanie L Schmidt |
A wire forming plier and electrical multi-tool for the purpose of forming, stripping, crimping and cutting electrical wire is disclosed. The plier features two arms overlapped and pivoted together; the posterior ends of the arms serve as handles. Two symmetrically shaped round barrels, different in size, identified with indicia, extend from the anterior ends of the plier arms for the purpose of forming a controlled bend in electrical wires/conductors of varying thicknesses/gauges to fit around specific terminal screw/stud sizes. As the handles are squeezed together, the cylindrical tips will grasp the electrical conductor by applying pressure to the wire between the round and smooth barrel surfaces. While the wire is securely held between the cylindrical tips the wire loop is quickly and easily formed around either barrel by manually rotating the entire tool about a longitudinal axis in either direction. |
90 |
SYSTEM FOR PREPARING PRE-ASSEMBLED HANGER SUPPORTS |
US12537688 |
2009-08-07 |
US20110030193A1 |
2011-02-10 |
Richard C. Adams |
A system for preparing a pre-assembled hanger support. The system includes a bending tool operable to form a bight in the distal end of a structural wire, the bight having a transverse tail extending away from the shaft of the structural wire. The system also includes a wrapping tool having a drive rotor with a clip attachment interface that removably supports a hanger clip and provides selective rotation of the hanger clip and the structural wire, a wire support brace that supports the shaft of the structural wire in substantial alignment with the axis of rotation of the drive rotor, and a tail stop positioned to restrain the rotation of the transverse tail. The hanger clip is supported about the structural wire and positioned within the bight, and together the hanger clip and structural wire are installed onto the clip attachment interface, so that selective rotation of the drive rotor rotates the hanger clip and shaft of the structural wire causing the restrained transverse tail to wrap around the shaft and secure the hanger clip within an eyelet formed in the structural wire, thereby forming the pre-assembled hanger support. |
91 |
Brick mason wire bend |
US10439381 |
2003-05-19 |
US07089969B2 |
2006-08-15 |
James Edward Jackson; Julius Michael Jackson; Kimberly Lenora Mitchell Jackson; Anne Nathan Jackson John; André Adam Jackson |
A Brick Mason Wire Bend tool for use of adjusting the tie wire in masonry construction has the form of a bar having an intermediate bent radius section and opposite end portions which are displaced out of the plane of the intermediate section at an acute angle. The working end portion has four jaws and four slots perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The opposite end is curved and beveled and coated with a poly-carbonate coating. At the base of the central radius on opposite sides are two holes of equal distance and diameter. It is hand tooled, cold bend construction and galvanized. |
92 |
Wire twisting tool |
US10280196 |
2002-10-25 |
US06729358B1 |
2004-05-04 |
Wilbur Keith Moffatt |
A tool is provided and includes a hook member which is attached to an extendable and retractable pole member, and a retainer which can retain the pole member in a collapsed position. The hook member is used to twist a short portion of a workpiece around a long portion of a workpiece in order to secure the short portion to the long portion when the workpiece is hung from an overhead support member. The retainer retains an inner pole of the pole member within an outer pole of the pole member when the pole member is in a collapsed position. |
93 |
Tool for bending a ceiling support rod |
US10102589 |
2002-03-19 |
US06659141B2 |
2003-12-09 |
Dayle Lawrence |
A tool for bending ceiling support rods. The tool includes a first lever and a second lever. The first lever has a first handle portion and an associated first jaw portion, the first jaw portion has a contoured surface. The second lever has a second handle portion and an associated second jaw portion, the second jaw portion has an edge. Means are provided for pivotally mounting the first lever with the second lever, wherein the first jaw portion and the second jaw portion are opposite each other and are movable relative to each other when the first and second handle portions are compressed. The edge of the second jaw portion is movable toward the contoured surface of the first jaw portion when the first and second handle portions are compressed toward each other. |
94 |
Apparatus for bending malleable metal rods |
US286452 |
1999-04-06 |
US6128944A |
2000-10-10 |
Alvin Haynes |
An apparatus for bending malleable metal rods comprises a base plate having a plurality of holes arranged in rows and columns; a locking cam member having an ovoid configuration, with a camming surface at its broad end and a locking cam member pivot axis near its narrow end; and a a force application member. Each of the locking cam member and the force application member has a handle member; and each is adapted so as to be removably and pivotally mounted on the base plate, with their respective pivot axes each being aligned with one of the plurality of holes. At least two pins are adapted to be received in any two of the plurality of holes. A workpiece of malleable metal rod may be locked in place by being forced against two pins when they are received in two spaced apart holes, and the camming surface of the locking cam member is forced against the side of the workpiece remote from the side which contacts the two spaced apart pins. The workpiece is bent by contacting it with a force applying surface of the force application member at a region of the workpiece near one of the two spaced apart pins, which region is remote from the other of the spaced apart pins, and by causing pivotal movement of the force application member about its pivot axis by manipulation of its handle member, so as to transfer bending force from the force application member to the workpiece through the force applying surface. |
95 |
Refurbishing device for a fish tape |
US149614 |
1998-09-08 |
US6122949A |
2000-09-26 |
Robert Lock; Thomas Dziomba |
A refurbishing device (10) for a fish tape (12) comprising a base (14) and three studs (16). An assembly (18) is for attaching the studs (16) in equally spaced apart locations through the base (14), so that the studs (16) will extend from a bottom side (20) of the base (14). A handle (22) is also provided. An assemblage (24) is for securing the handle (22) to a top side (20) of the base (14) opposite from the studs (16). A person (28) can grasp the handle (22) with a first hand (30) and pull the coiled fish tape (12) between the studs (16) approximately three times with a second hand (32), thus reconditioning the fish tape (12) to like a new, straight and usable condition. |
96 |
Fisherman's tool |
US774617 |
1996-12-30 |
US5839141A |
1998-11-24 |
James R. Hermann |
A modified pair of needlenose pliers adapted for opening split rings and for forming spinner loops. |
97 |
Tool for flattening a cable |
US827670 |
1992-01-29 |
US5213139A |
1993-05-25 |
Gregory F. Deuel; Kenneth F. Folk |
The present invention is a hand operated tool for flattening a portion of a ribbon cable preparatory to installing a cable tap. The tool includes a set of rollers which are closeable upon the cable. The rollers are then rotated, first in one direction and then the other while varying the pressure on the rollers to effect removal of kinks and to generally flatten a portion of the cable. |
98 |
Hand held sure grip slingshot including a method and apparatus for its
manufacture |
US534317 |
1983-09-22 |
US4569324A |
1986-02-11 |
Florentino Garcia |
A hand held sure grip slingshot for launching projectiles is provided including a method and apparatus for its manufacture. The preferred embodiment of the slingshot comprises generally a one piece frame and a sling which includes a pair of elastic members detachably connected to the one piece frame and a pouch connected at its ends to the elastic members and intermediately positioned on the sling. The one piece frame is preferably constructed of structural wire and includes a handle commencing at its lower end, looping finger guides intermediately positioned on the frame at the top of the handle, upward extending and separating arms forming with the handle of Y-configuration, and spiral retaining loops at the upper end of the frame at the tops of the upward extending arms. The looping finger guides, adjacent to the top of the handle, comprise apertures, through which fingers of the operator's hand may be insertably positioned to minimize rotation and slipping during use of the slingshot. In performing the preferred embodiment of the method, while using a preferred embodiment of the apparatus, during the manufacture of the one piece frame slingshot, an elongated wire is initially bent into a U-shape and then further shaped to the preferred one piece frame configuration, using a wire forming mold, which includes: a base; upward extending posts; and a horizontal rod. The U-shaped wire is insertably positioned on the base and then selectively and sequentially wound around the upward extending posts and the horizontal rod to create the shape of the one piece frame of this slingshot in its preferred embodiment. |
99 |
Hanger wire bender |
US785340 |
1977-04-07 |
US4091845A |
1978-05-30 |
Larry R. Johnson |
A tool for bending metal wire hangers such as those used for hanging false ceilings below exposed under floor structures of the type separating successive floors in modern multiple story commercial buildings and in other buildings where a lowered ceiling is desired. The wire bending tool includes a pair of operating handles connected to a gripping jaw having members for holding a wire to be bent. The gripping jaw forms part of a rectangular block to which a third handle is pivotally mounted. The third handle is associated with a roller which cooperates with two corners of the block to bend the wire into two successive right angles as a third handle is pivoted about its axial connection on the rectangular block. |
100 |
Wire bending tool |
US3722256D |
1971-04-01 |
US3722256A |
1973-03-27 |
IASCONE M |
A hand tool is adapted for bending wire manually and includes an elongate bar having a wire engaging head secured thereto at one end and another, similar, wire engaging head disposed intermediate the ends of the bar. Two such identical tools are employed to effect the desired bend in the wire. Each head on each tool projects transversely from the bar and has a T-shaped channel which extends parallel to the axis of the bar. In use the tools are placed, head end to head end, parallel to the wire, with the wire received in the T-shaped slots. With the adjacent head ends of the tools in abutment, the distal ends of the tools then are pivoted transversely toward each other to effect the desired bend in the wire at a location between the proximate ends of the tools. During bending, the proximate ends of the tools bear against each other to provide leverage.
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