摘要 |
A wire stripper has a main body (10) in which are mounted a pair of clamping jaws (11 and 14) for a wire to be stripped and within the clamping jaws, a pair of stripping jaws (17 and 18). An operating mechanism includes a pivoting handle (30) which carries an actuator (34) defining a cam profile (37, 38). Clamping jaw (14) has a cam follower (43) which co-operates with the cam profile (37, 38) and the actuator (34) is also coupled to the stripping jaws (17, 18) to effect linear sliding movement thereof. During operation, the mechanism serves to increase the clamping force on a wire being stripped should the stripping jaws encounter resistance to movement. The mechanism gives a smooth operation with a substantially constant velocity ratio between the movement of the stripping jaws (17 and 18) and the movement of the handle (27). |