Tool for installing a communication or power line

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016368204-A1
Application number	US-201615161578-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 23, 2016
Priority date	May 22, 2015
Publication date	Dec 22, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a tool for attaching a line having pre-coated hot melt adhesive to a structure. The tool includes a heating device including a heating element, a working tip that mounts on a tip of the heating element, and a a line guide sleeve that mounts on the heating element axially adjacent to the working tip.

First claim

1 . A tool for attaching a line having pre-coated hot melt adhesive to a structure, the tool comprising:
a heating device including a heating element; a working tip that mounts on a tip of the heating element; a line guide sleeve that mounts on the heating element axially adjacent to the working tip.

2 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip is more heat conductive than the line guide sleeve.

3 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip is metal and the line guide sleeve is plastic.

4 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a length than is less than 50 percent as large as a length of the heating element.

5 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a weight less than 2.5 grams.

6 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a weight less than 2.0 grams.

7 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a weight less than 1.5 grams.

8 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a volume less than 0.07 cubic inches.

9 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a volume less than 0.06 cubic inches.

10 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a volume less than 0.05 cubic inches.

11 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the line guide sleeve defies a line channel in which a line can be laterally inserted without removing the line guide sleeve from the heating element.

12 . The tool of claim 11 , wherein the line guide sleeve includes retention tabs that overhang the line guide channel, the ate axially spaced from one another, and that have base ends attached to opposite side rails of the line guide sleeve positioned at opposite sides of the line guide channel.

13 . The tool of claim 12 , wherein the retention tabs are axially separated by a oblique slot.

14 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the working tip has a proximal end defined a receptacle for receiving the tip of the heating element, a distal end that is rounded, and an exterior channel that extends from the proximal end along a length of the working tip and around the distal end of the working tip.

15 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the heating device is battery powered and provides a 3 volt output to the heating element.

16 . The tool of claim 1 , wherein the heating element of the heating device has a nominal heated temperature less than 400 F.

Assignees

• Commscope Technologies Llc

Inventors

• Raynor Christopher E
• Allen Barry Wayne

Classifications

• H02G3/305

  Mounting by adhesive material · CPC title

• H02G3/266 Primary

  Mounting by adhesive material · CPC title

• G02B6/46

  Processes or apparatus adapted for installing {or repairing} optical fibres or optical cables (installation of cables containing electric conductors and optical fibres H02G) · CPC title

• B29L2031/3462

  Cables · CPC title

• B29C65/4815 Primary

  Hot melt adhesives, e.g. thermoplastic adhesives · CPC title