APPARATUS FOR PLACING A SEALANT CUTTING WIRE THROUGH A BEAD OF SEALANT IN A GLASS INSTALLATION

摘要

A cutting wire placement tool includes an elongated tool body, a pulling element carrier structure, and an elongated pulling element. The elongated tool body has a handle end and a sealant piercing end opposite the handle end, and the pulling element carrier structure is located at the sealant piercing end of the elongated tool body. The pulling element carrier structure includes a recess and at least one piercing element having a configuration to pierce a sealant material as a sealant piercing force is applied to the elongated tool body. The elongated pulling element is connected to the elongated tool body at a location spaced apart from the sealant piercing end of the elongated tool body and has a pulling loop which is adapted to be movable between an insertion position and a pulling position relative to the recess of the pulling element carrier structure.

主权项

1. An apparatus for placing a sealant cutting wire through a sealant material, the apparatus including:
(a) an elongated tool body having a handle end and a sealant piercing end opposite the handle end; (b) a pulling element carrier structure located at the sealant piercing end of the elongated tool body, the pulling element carrier structure including a recess and at least one piercing element having a configuration to pierce a sealant material as a sealant piercing force is applied axially along the elongated tool body in the direction from the handle end to the sealant piercing end; and (c) an elongated pulling element connected to the elongated tool body at a location spaced apart from the sealant piercing end of the elongated tool body and having a pulling loop which is adapted to be movable between an insertion position and a pulling position relative to the pulling element carrier structure, a portion of the pulling loop (i) being received in the recess when the pulling loop is in the insertion position and (ii) being adapted to extend beyond the recess at least an operational distance in the direction from the handle end of the elongated tool body to the sealant piercing end when the pulling loop is in the pulling position.