Claims
- 1. In a crimping apparatus for use with straight and bent tube fittings and of the type with first and second crimping rings that are arranged coaxial with and axially spaced apart from each other along a ring axis, the rings having facing frustoconical surfaces that engage oppositely facing frustoconical surfaces of a plurality of crimping members interpositioned between the rings and arranged substantially circumjacently around and radially spaced form the ring axis and defining an opening along the ring axis, and where one ring is stationary and the other ring is reciprocally moveable along the ring axis and the crimping members are moveable in the direction of the ring axis and in relation to the moveable ring, means for holding and positioning the rings, means for holding and positioning the rings, a means for reciprocating the moveable ring along the ring axis, and an activating means, and wherein the improvement comprises:
- a generally tubularly shaped housing having a substantially cylindrically shaped chamber and a radial cut out sized to receive bent tube fittings, the moveable ring disposed in and reciprocally moveable within the cylindrical chamber in an end portion of the housing that includes the holding and positioning means; a cylindrically shaped ram pusher disposed in and reciprocally moveable in the cylindrically shaped chamber, the ram pusher having an internal chamber a radial cut out aligned with the housing cut out and sized to receive bent tube fittings, and wherein the opening defined by the crimping members, the internal chamber of the ram pusher, and the radial cut outs are in communication with each other and sized to receive bent tube fittings, and wherein the ram pusher has an end portion juxtaposed the moveable ring and defines the means for reciprocating the moveable ring.
- 2. The crimping apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the cutouts of the housing and ram pusher are slots oriented in the direction of the ring axis.
- 3. The crimping apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein the ram pusher includes a disc shaped back plate interconnected to the activating means.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of application Ser. No. 07/145,445 filed Jan. 19, 1988, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,885,928.
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