| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention is a novel banding tool which, prior to being used to provide a securing lock for a band clamp (300b), can extract an unspecified length of excess band (1038) from the band clamp (300b) during a band clamp tightening operation without the banding tool itself expanding. The tightening is accomplished by the cranking or rotating of a tensioning rod (1068) for moving a band gripping assembly (1052) along the length of the tensioning rod (1068) whereby the band gripping assembly (1052) extracts a length of band (1032) from the band clamp (300b). Further, by using a band clamp (300b) which is able to remain in a tightened configuration without maintaining tension on an extracted band length, the tension rod (1068) can be iteratively cranked in a first direction to tighten the band clamp and then cranked in an opposite direction to reposition the band gripping assembly (1052) for extracting an additional length of band (1032). <IMAGE></p> |
