By virtue of the foregoing the grabber bundle can be made to follow the contour of a narrow hollow space and then expand to fill the entire cavity to provide the largest possible target for a fish hook.Įxamples of prior devices are those shown in U.S.
Moreover, the fish grabber of the present invention can be retracted so that it can be inserted through a relatively small opening and then expanded to a relatively large and flexible bundle size.
The fish grabber of the present invention can be placed within the hollow building cavity in such a manner to allow a technician to have the equivalent of numerous hooks, to enable the easy hooking of a conventional fish wire being directed from another direction.Ī principal advantage of the present invention is that the fish grabber thereof is presented as a flexible bundle and can be guided around obstructions within the building cavity. The invention herein disclosed has as its principal object the provision of a fish wire for use in electrical installation. This method is quite cumbersome and also very time consuming.
The operation involves the pushing by one person or two persons of the fish wires blindly toward each other, until it can be determined that one fish wire has been hooked upon the other fish wire. The hook ends are inserted within the hollow cavity behind panels in a building, from two different points. A fish wire device presently in great use comprises a pair of wires with a small hook on each end. Since inspection agencies and building codes require wires to be concealed within the interior spaces of the floors, walls, and ceilings, the only practical device presently used within the trades is a so called fish wire. In electrical construction, communications, alarm systems and general construction industries, it is often necessary to pass wires from one point in a building to another point. This invention relates to a fish grabber for use in electrical wire installation, and more particularly this invention relates to a fish grabber that is to be used for fishing wires in concealed hollow spaces within existing buildings and especially to be useful in areas of varying or unknown configuration. The tool of claim 3 including a wing device mounted in said housing to limit penetration thereof through an opening. The tool of claim 2 including an adjustable set screw passing through said housing to bear against said cable to hold said cable in a desired position.Ĥ. The tool of claim 1 wherein said loops flare outwardly in a convex bundle.ģ.
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An electrical installation tool for use in electrical wire installation in areas of varying or unknown configuration, said tool comprising a hollow flexible housing, a flexible movable cable passing through said housing and having a handle end and fish wire end, a bundle of flexible loops, each having an outer end secured to said cable fish wire end, with free ends of each of the loops being fixedly held together in a movable junction to form a loop bundle, and wherein the loop bundle comprises flexible loops flaring outwardly, and means to grasp said handle end of said cable to move the fish wire cable in a direction inwardly or outwardly of said housing, thereby to vary the flaring of said loop bundle to allow passage thereof or expansion or contraction thereof to adapt the loop bundle to varying or unknown configurations.Ģ.
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