A powered fish tape having a rotatable drum is described for pulling electrical wires through conduit or other enclosed regions. The fish tape utilizes an electric motor and a gear assembly for extending or retracting the fish tape and wires attached thereto. The fish tape includes a powered mode and a manual mode. When placed in the manual mode, an operator may manually rotate the drum to extend or retract the fish tape.

A fish tape tool includes a housing including a base and a cover. The housing defines a chamber between the base and the cover. The base defines an exit opening and a channel extending from the chamber to the exit opening. The fish tape tool also includes a drum configured to be inserted into the chamber of the housing, the drum containing a fish tape. The drum is configured to be manually rotatable relative to the housing to dispense or retract the fish tape from the housing via the channel and the exit opening. The cover defines a central aperture that is aligned with a central bore of the drum.

A fish tape tool includes a housing and a drum supported by the housing for rotation relative to the housing. The drum includes an inner surface that at least partially defines a fish tape storage zone. The inner surface is made of a first material having a first coefficient of friction. The fish tape tool also includes a fish tape positioned at least partially within the fish tape storage zone of the drum. The fish tape is dispensed or retracted from the drum as the drum rotates. The fish tape tool further includes a friction layer positioned on at least a portion of the inner surface of the drum. The friction layer has a second coefficient of friction that is greater than the first coefficient of friction.

A fish tape tool includes a housing and a chamber defined in the housing. A drum is configured to be inserted into the chamber of the housing. The drum contains a fish tape. The drum is rotatable relative to the housing to dispense or retract the fish tape from the housing. The drum is one of a plurality of drums that are insertable into and removable from the chamber of the housing. Each drum contains a different type of fish tape.

A single box type electric wire pushing and pulling machine is disclosed herein. It comprises a U-shaped shell having a first panel and a second panel, and an assembling socket accommodated in the U-shaped shell and having a first holder, a second holder, an adjusting rod disposed between the first holder and the second holder for adjusting the spacing, two extension parts respectively extended from an upper end and a lower end of the second holder, a gear axle hole defined by front ends of the two extension parts, two long troughs respectively disposed at a front end and a rear end of the second holder and two limit members correspondingly assembled to the two long troughs for respectively connecting with the first panel and the second panel of the U-shaped shell.

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 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.