A hook knife, a method of using the hook knife, and a guard body are provided. The hook knife includes a handle and a blade extending from the handle. A guard body is coupled to the handle and disposed about the blade, the guard body defining a first u-shaped channel extending perpendicular to the blade, the blade being at least partially disposed within the first u-shaped channel.

According to typical inventive practice, a cable is grasped by a Kellum grip and is positioned through the topside “V”-notch of an “M”-structure. Two wires engage pulleys and a ratchet distanced from the pulleys. The pulleys are joined with a grip plate, attached at an axial end of the Kellum grip. The ratchet is joined with a ratchet plate, proximate and/or attached to the “M”-structure. The “M”-structure has joined therewith three blade wheels having cutting orientations in the same linear direction. The blade wheels are situated interiorly and perpendicularly in correspondence to the geometric sides of the inverted triangle defined by the “V”-notch. Each blade wheel is adjustable to suit the diameter of the cable positioned through the “V”-notch. Ratcheting of the wires moves the ratchet plate and hence the “M”-structure, resulting in creation via the blade wheels of three parallel slices in the cable along its axis.

A blade stripper has a displaceable blade carriage, which is normally biased toward a cable support to automatically accommodate differently dimensioned jacketed cables in a desired position. The blade carriage supports a blade assembly configured so that the blade can be displaced among multiple positions corresponding to respective axial, radial and a plurality of spiral cuts while the cable is engaged in the desired position.

A tool for scoring cable sheathing on a cable including a blade housing assembly having a blade housing, a blade housing opening, a blade disposed in the blade housing opening and a blade housing carrier having a blade housing carrier opening wherein the blade housing is rotatably secured in the blade housing carrier opening for scoring the sheathing in a circular, lateral or spiral direction. The tool includes a cable support member and an adjustable frame disposed between the cable support member and the blade housing assembly for adjusting the cable support member toward and away from the blade housing assembly for scoring various diameter cables, the blade housing carrier secured to one end of the adjustable frame. The blade is adjustable within the blade housing opening toward and away from the cable support member for controlling a depth of the blade into the cable sheathing.

A hook knife, a method of using the hook knife, and a guard body are provided. The hook knife includes a handle and a blade extending from the handle. A guard body is coupled to the handle and disposed about the blade, the guard body defining a first u-shaped channel extending perpendicular to the blade, the blade being at least partially disposed within the first u-shaped channel.

A cutting apparatus cuts a wrapper of a roll of coins along a longitudinal axis. The cutting apparatus includes an interior cavity between a front cover and a back cover and a rail section disposed beneath the interior cavity. The rail section includes an opening through a cross section of the flat rail section, wherein a cutting surface extends through the opening and the roll of coins is compressed against the rail section while cutting. The cutting apparatus further includes overhangs oriented at edges of, perpendicular to and extending below the flat rail section, the overhangs aligned with the front cover.

A wire stripper includes a right and left handle, the right and left handle are rotatably connected by a pin shaft, a jaw is provided on front surfaces of top portions of the right and left handle respectively, and a right and left movable plate are correspondingly provided on back surfaces of the top portions of the right and left handle respectively; and the wire stripper further comprises a damping assembly, the damping assembly comprises a damping seat and a torsion spring, the damping seat is connected to the right movable plate, the torsion spring is connected to the left movable plate, the torsion spring has two relatively opened torsion spring arms, the two torsion spring arms respectively abut against both sides of the damping seat, and the two torsion spring arms are opened and tightened by relative reciprocating sliding between the damping seat and the torsion spring arms.

An adjustable wire stripper has a jaw for positioning a length of cable, a tool body for tangentially contacting the cable, a blade having a cantilevered loading ramp for cutting the insulation off the cable, and a blade angle adjustment shaft driven by an angle adjustment member. A frame member disposed between the jaw and the body adjusts the distance between the jaw and the body to accommodate cables of different diameters. The frame member relatively moves the jaw and the body with respect to each other along a line having a constant sliding angle. The angle adjustment shaft has a flange extending radially outwardly for driving the shaft to different angles of rotation with respect to the body. An optional assist spring bearing opposite the flange urges the flange against the blade angle adjustment member during movement of the flange to reduce backlash of the shaft.

An electrical wire outer coating splitting device featuring an elongated sleeving element, a nearly as long closed hole space within the sleeving element and having a vertically inclined central axis of symmetry and with the notch portion thereof cut into the outer walling of the sleeving element at a bias relative to the lie of the axis of symmetry and with the notch portion thereof being further amenable to removable receipt and dependable holding of the body portion of a seam ripper element.

A cable stripping tool used for stripping an outer layer of a cable includes a first plier, a second plier, a cable receiving hole, a blade, a first clamping area, and a second clamping area. The second plier is pivotally connected to the first plier by a rotating shaft. The cable receiving hole is disposed on the second plier for receiving the cable. The blade is disposed on the first plier and opposite to the cable receiving hole. The first clamping area and the second clamping area are disposed on the first plier, and the blade is disposed between the first clamping area and the second clamping area; the cable receiving hole, the first clamping area and the second clamping area together clamp the cable such that the blade is able to cut the outer layer of the cable.