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Abstract

The invention relates to stripping tools for coaxial cables with a corrugated outer conductor and a hollow inner conductor. The tool comprises three main parts: a jacket cutting part for removing a certain predetermined length of the jacket of the cable, a guide part to be placed around the end of the cable after the jacket has been removed by the jacket cutting part, and a second cutting part to be placed on the guide part during a final preparation of the end of the cable during which the inner conductor, the outer conductor and the dielectric material between inner- and outer conductor are being cut off to appropriate lengths. The guide part is provided with a portion for determining a well-defined longitudinal position of the tool on the cable relative to the pattern of valleys and crests of the corrugation on the outer conductor. Using the tool according to the invention it is thereby possible to: (a) expose a predefined length of outer conductor; (b) cut off the inner conductor and the dielectric material at a predetermined longitudinal position relative to the end of the outer conductor, and (c) ascertain that the outer conductor is cut off substantially at a valley of the corrugation.

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First Claim