A lighted wire fishing device for installing wire includes a rod that is resilient. The rod is semiflexible so that the rod is configured to be used to fish a wire through a structural element of a structure. A housing is coupled to and extends from a first end of the rod. The housing defines an interior space. A power module is coupled to the housing and is positioned in the interior space. A plurality of bulbs is coupled to the rod and extends from proximate to the first end to proximate to a second end of the rod. The plurality of bulbs is operationally coupled to the power module. The power module is positioned to selectively power the bulbs to illuminate an area proximate to the rod so that the rod and the wire are visible to a user.

A fish tape case is configured to house a fish tape. The fish tape includes a shell having an upper base wall, a lower base wall, an inner side wall extending between inner perimeters of the base walls and forming a central aperture through the shell, an outer side wall extending between outer perimeters of the base walls and defining an outer diameter of the shell, the walls defining a cavity therein, the upper base wall having a first opening therethrough in communication with the cavity through which the fish tape can exit, and the outer side wall having a second opening therethrough in communication with the cavity through which the fish tape can exit. A storage reel is mounted in the cavity for holding the fish tape.

A system for pulling wire behind a wall is provided. One embodiment comprises a cylindrical weight defined by an outside diameter and a first length, and a tubular body with a hollow cavity defined by an inside diameter that is greater than the outside diameter of the cylindrical weight and a second length that is greater than the first length. A distal end of the tubular body includes a tip configured to penetrate a material that is behind the wall, wherein when oriented in a vertical position behind the wall, and wherein in response to drawing the cylindrical weight upward through the tubular body and then releasing the cylindrical weight, the cylindrical weight travels downward towards the distal end of the tubular body and impacts the tip such that momentum of the downward travelling cylindrical weight is transferred to the tip, thereby driving the tubular body downward through the material.

An article containing an innerduct structure and a woven rope located within the innerduct structure. The woven rope an inner portion comprising a plurality of multifilament fibers in the length direction of the woven rope and a jacket portion covering the inner portion. The jacket portion contains a plurality of monofilament fibers in the length direction of the woven rope and at least one multifilament fiber in the circumferential direction interwoven with the monofilament fibers in the length direction of the jacket portion. The monofilament fibers of the jacket portion form the majority of the outer surface of the woven rope.

Universal cable installation tools and methods for using the tools. A cable installation tool includes a cable fastening end and an opposite projecting end extending from fastening end. A cable can be temporarily fastened to the cable installation tool using the universal cable fastening end, allowing the cable installation tool and the operably coupled cable to be threaded through a wall opening.

A device to automate or semiautomate a fish tape is provided that can include an attachable handle with battery operated motor, rollers, gears and controls that can be integrated into its own or existing fish tape spools. Another embodiment provides a left and right plate and an assembly about a member to be driven by a crank or other automated means to mobilize a fish tape which over comes the limitations of existing manual and automatic fish tapes making it safer, more efficient and easier for an operator to pull wire.

A fish tape tool includes a housing, a chamber defined in the housing, and a motor supported by the housing. The motor is configured to rotate in a first direction and a second direction that is opposite the first direction. An output reel is disposed in the chamber and is rotatable in response to receiving torque from the motor. A drum contains a fish tape and including a rotatable drum portion having an inner wall that is engaged by the output reel when the drum is inserted into the chamber of the housing. When the drum portion is rotated by the output reel in the first direction, fish tape is dispensed from the drum. When the drum portion is rotated by the output reel in the second direction, fish tape is retracted into the drum.

Described herein is a fish tape reel comprising a housing with two side shells coupled together. The housing defines an internal cavity. An internal portion of the housing defines a plurality of flat gripping portions and a plurality of finger notches. The housing comprises a plurality of tabs in the internal cavity, the tabs interfacing against an inner annular portion that is coupled to the handle when the handle rotates around the housing.

The present invention provides a threading device, wherein a bent pipe converging device in the threading device is rotationally disposed on a first rotating shaft through a first sleeve, an annular gasket and a clamp spring, the bent pipe converging device can rotate up and down and also can swing left and right, a rope arrangement auxiliary device consisting of a rope arrangement plate, a first eccentric wheel with a first push rod and a rope arrangement motor is disposed on an inward outlet of the bent pipe converging device, a first sliding groove and a second sliding groove are disposed on the rope arrangement plate in parallel, a sliding direction of the first sliding groove and the second sliding groove is perpendicular to a reciprocating direction of the rope arrangement plate, and the internal outlet of the bent pipe converging device and the first push rod are inserted into the first sliding groove and the second sliding groove, respectively; by such a configuration, the first eccentric wheel can enable the bent pipe converging device to reciprocate left and right during take-up under the driving of the rope arrangement motor, and a wire rope taken up on a wire wheel cannot be intensively wound together to generate a wire clamping phenomenon, so that the wire rope on the wire wheel is collected more evenly.

A draw wire apparatus, including: a rod and a motor for rotating the rod; a thread extending from the rod, for being attached to a draw wire, and shaped for advancing thereof upon the rotation of the rod; and an oil pump characterized in being operated by the rotation of the rod, and disposed adjacent to the draw wire, thereby drawing oil onto, thereby the motor lubricates the draw wire and as well advances thereof.