Hand-operated apparatus for peeling off the outer jacket layer of electric lines and cables

摘要

A hand-operated device for peeling off the outer jacket layer of an electric cable is disclosed. The device has three guide jaws slidably mounted on a support disc and directed radially toward the center of the disc. The guide jaws have a concave, threaded surface for engaging the cable and feeding the cable through an aperture in the center of the support disc. A peeling knife is mounted to one of the guide jaws for peeling off the cable jacket layer as the device is turned by means of a handle mounted to the support disc and the cable fed into the knife by the guide jaws. The peeling knife is continuously adjustable radially so that it can accommodate jacket layers of varying thicknesses. The guide jaws are adjusted by means of a rotatable adjusting disc having spiral slots which engage the guide jaws to thus accommodate cables of varying diameters.