Improved portable crimper

A portable crimping apparatus (20) suitable for crimping hose fittings on high capacity hoses (10) having four to six layers of braided wire reinforcement (16a, 16b) utilizes a relatively light weight pusher (60) which has openings therethrough to illuminate the crimping operation. The pusher (60) i...

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Hauptverfasser: CHRISTOPHER ANDREAS, ERIC D ORCUTT, TIMOTHY A LANDIS, ANTHONY E SHECKLER, MURALI M R KRISHNA
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A portable crimping apparatus (20) suitable for crimping hose fittings on high capacity hoses (10) having four to six layers of braided wire reinforcement (16a, 16b) utilizes a relatively light weight pusher (60) which has openings therethrough to illuminate the crimping operation. The pusher (60) is mounted on a plate (24) attached to a ram (62) of a hydraulic cylinder (64), which ram (62) is used to advance the pusher (60). The pusher (60) is retained in position on the plate (24) by a thumb operated spring latch. A pair of lifting arms (70) are pivoted to a support for the ram (62) to facilitate carrying the portable crimper apparatus (20).