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Abstract

An automatic pneumatically powered crimping hand tool for making electrical connections is devised by advancing a bandoleer of contact carriers, each contact carrier including a contact, to align one of the contact carriers and contacts in an ejectable position within the tool. Once in the ejectable position, a pneumatically powered ejection pin is then longitudinally advanced into the contact carrier to eject the contact from the contact carrier into a crimping position. Once the contact is placed within the tool in a crimping position, the wire is then manually placed within the contact. The depression of a trigger automatically and serially activates the advancement of the contact carrier and ejection of the contact and then to drive four indentor pins into the electrical contact. The contact is mechanically deformed about the wire. The operation may then be repeated on the next serially connected contact within the bandoleer of contacts. Adjustment may be made within the hand tool with respect to the extent of crimping motion to regulate the degree of indentation both with respect to the gauge of the contact and the gauge of the wire to be crimped.

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