EP0216683A1 - Tool forming a magazine for installing all kinds of articles, especially for wiring markers - Google Patents

Abstract

It is a tool comprising an elongated body (20) suitable for support and guidance and markers (10) preferably in the form of strings (16). According to the invention, the body (20), which has a longitudinal internal recess (21) suitable for receiving the pins (10) concerned, is extended by a canopy (24) to that of the outlets of said internal recess (21) which is the outlet. Application in particular to the installation of marks (10) on any cable or electrical conductor.

Description

The present invention relates generally to the distribution and installation of any articles.

It relates more particularly, but not exclusively, to the tracking devices, or markers, of wiring, to be put in place on cables or other electrical conductors for the identification of these.

These are, for example, marks of the type described in the French patent application filed on March 4, 1983 under No. 83 03575 and published under No. 2,542,143.

Overall, such a mark comprises, in one piece, a base plate, suitable for carrying, by printing for example, any identification element, and two elastically deformable legs, suitable for being clamped together, in open loop, the cable to be fitted.

Given that their relatively small dimensions, like the diameter of the cables to be fitted, make them relatively difficult to handle, the positioning of such markers on such a cable is preferably done with using a tool.

Most often, to date, this tool is a simple installation tool, which is only suitable for assuming the only desired positioning function.

This is the case, for example, for the tool described in the French patent filed on February 29, 1980 under No 80.04988 and published under No 2.477.305.

In this French patent, the installation tool concerned, which, to be adapted to a specific mark closed on itself in a ring, is in the form of a fork capable of gripping such a mark laterally, only allows the single, momentary grip of the latter, for removal of this mark in a store where it is previously stored and its installation, either in isolation or in combination with other marks, in a marker carrier provided for this purpose on the cable to be fitted.

Such a tool is therefore not suitable for forming a store by itself, and the positioning on it of one or more markers is always done individually.

apart from the fact that such an arrangement normally requires the implementation of separate stores, even simple sachets, it involves relatively numerous, complex and tedious operations for setting the markers.

As before, the fitting tool described in German patent application No 26 19 535 relates to a mark closed on itself in a ring.

This tool, which forms a store, comprises an elongated body of circular section, formed, on the one hand, of a central core and of a blind sleeve disposed coaxially around said core by being linked by its bottom to it, and , on the other hand, a barrel, which is rotatably mounted around the core, between the latter and the sleeve, and which has, longitudinally, a plurality of grooves suitably distributed circularly and each suitable for supporting and guiding a string of landmarks to ask.

A handle, of the type of those usually fitted to staplers, makes it possible to detach one by one such marks in line with a hole in the bottom of the socket through which the cable or electrical conductor to be fitted must then be engaged.

The result is a fairly complex and therefore expensive assembly, employing several separate parts, some of which are movable relative to the others.

In addition, there is no certainty as to the actual drive, by the cable or electrical conductor to be fitted supposed to be engaged in it, of a mark previously detached from the rosary to which it belongs, and this mark may as well remain stuck inside the tool, in which case it is necessary to carry out a tedious disassembly thereof.

In U.S. Patent No. 3,250,308, which relates the installation of small broad-headed nails commonly called thumbtacks, the tool, on the other hand, is very simple: it is limited to a tube open longitudinally by a slot and truncated at an angle at each of its ends.

If such a tool can actually be suitable for laying thumbtacks, it is clear that it cannot be used for other articles, and in particular for markers for cables or electrical conductors.

It is the same for that described in US Patent No. 3,009,155, which, using moving parts, and, in particular a cover, which, distinct from the body, is articulated thereto, is again more complex. .

For open-loop marks for cables or electrical conductors, there has also been proposed a fitting tool formed of a rod doubled in length by a rib suitable for supporting and guiding one or more of such marks.

Such a fitting tool, which moreover is only suitable for the specific specific marks for which it is intended, supposes relatively complex and tedious handling operations for the transfer of the marks which it carries to the cables or electrical conductors to be fitted.

The present invention generally relates to a fitting tool forming a store, which, more specifically, but not exclusively, intended for the marks for cables or electrical conductors described in the French patent application No. 83 03575 mentioned above, on the contrary is particularly easy to implement, and also has other advantages.

This fitting tool is of the type comprising an elongated body suitable for supporting and guiding the articles concerned, said body having a longitudinal internal recess, which is suitable for receiving these articles, and which opens out to one and the outside. 'other of its ends, and it is generally characterized in that, that of the outlets of its internal recess which forms the outlet outlet, its body is extended by a canopy.

Thus, this internal recess opens freely to the outside, which minimizes the consequences of a possible incident during the installation of an article, while, by the awning according to the invention, this installation is facilitated, this awning then advantageously providing support to the operator.

Preferably, the awning according to the invention is adapted to form a stop, that is to say that it is capable of positively stopping an article to be placed, at a distance, longitudinally, from the outlet outlet of the internal recess of the body which it extends.

As a result, the installation of such an article is made safer.

Preferably also, the awning according to the invention, which extends in overhang, is in one piece with the body that it extends.

This advantageously results in great simplicity of construction, the assembly possibly coming from a single piece of molding.

In practice, when they are in store in the fitting tool according to the invention, the articles concerned are advantageously confined by it.

This results in a double advantage.

First of all, the gripping of the positioning tool is more assured, only the positioning tool itself being normally involved in such a gripping, without interference with the articles which it carries.

In addition, and above all, the items present in the store in this fitting tool are advantageously protected from external attack by the latter.

It follows in particular that, according to a preferred form of implementation, these articles can be presented in a chain, despite the relative fragility inherent in such a chain due to the need to allow one to be detached one by one. the articles which constitute it.

The rosary presentation of these articles facilitates advantageously both their initial packaging and the refilling of the installation tool according to the invention.

The internal recess that this fitting tool presents for the items to be laid could of course, for complete protection thereof, have a closed contour in cross section.

However, according to a preferred embodiment, the body of this fitting tool is, on the contrary, open laterally by a slot over at least part of its length, and in practice over the whole of it, thus generally having a section transverse in U, the awning according to the invention then being disposed on the same side of said body as said slot.

Such an arrangement advantageously gives access to the articles all along the fitting tool, which makes it very easy to provide the thumb with the advancement along the latter.

This advance is therefore facilitated, without however being significantly disturbed the conditions of protection necessary for the sustainability of the rosary formed by such articles.

Consequently, the article to be placed present at the end of such a chain at the outlet from the internal recess of the body of the fitting tool according to the invention, under the canopy thereof, can advantageously not be supported, cantilevered, only by the article to which it is immediately attached.

The conditions for its installation are advantageously facilitated, in particular when it is a wiring marker to be placed on a cable or electrical conductor.

It remains the same even if, for safety, there is provided, for the additional support of such an article, any projection on at least one of the walls of the awning, inside thereof.

Anyway, at the right of this awning, that is to say, in practice, at the outlet outlet from the internal recess of the fitting tool according to the invention, the ends of the longitudinal walls of the body of this fitting tool, or lips, are preferably offset longitudinally relative to one another.

As a result, it is advantageously possible, once the article to be placed engaged on the member to be fitted, to impart to the fitting tool, which is initially perpendicular to such a member, a tilting movement in the direction of it, which facilitates, by twisting the corresponding link, the detachment of this article vis-à-vis that to which it is immediately attached.

Furthermore, for better maintenance and guidance of the articles to be installed, at least one of the longitudinal walls of the body of the installation tool according to the invention has, internally, over at least part of its length, a shoulder.

For one of the longitudinal walls, this shoulder can form the crest of such a longitudinal wall.

But, preferably, for the other of the longitudinal walls, it forms one of the sides of a groove.

Thus engaged with such a groove, the articles to be placed are advantageously prevented from being able to escape transversely by chance to the body of the positioning tool according to the invention, while being able to slide freely along the latter.

Jointly, a ratchet tooth being provided for this purpose inside said body, they are also prevented from escaping longitudinally.

The security of the operations to be carried out is thereby reinforced.

In practice, according to a preferred embodiment, the other of the sides of the groove thus used belongs to a flap, which, distinct from the longitudinal wall concerned, is suitably secured to it.

Thanks to such an arrangement, the molding of the laying tool according to the invention, which is in practice carried out in one piece made of synthetic material, is facilitated, this molding does not involve the implementation of a possible drawer, particularly long, and therefore fragile, for the production of such a groove.

For example, the flap associated according to the invention with the longitudinal wall concerned can very simply be articulated at the base of the latter, in one piece with it.

Despite the use of such a shutter, the fitting tool according to the invention thus still constitutes in itself a unitary assembly, which facilitates its production.

It is sufficient, in fact, after its molding, to fold against the longitudinal wall concerned of its body the flap associated with this longitudinal wall, and to secure it suitably to the latter, for example by snap-fastening.

• la figure 1 est une vue en perspective d'un repère pour câble ou conducteur électrique auquel est plus particulièrement destiné l'outil de pose suivant l'invention ;
• la figure 2 est une vue en élévation de ce repère, suivant la flèche II de la figure 1 ;
• la figure 3 est une vue en perspective d'un outil de pose suivant l'invention ;
• la figure 4 en est, à échelle différente, une vue partielle en élévation, suivant la flèche IV de la figure 3;
• la figure 5 en est une vue locale en coupe transversale, suivant la ligne V-V de la figure 4 ;
• les figures 6 et 7 en sont d'autres vues locales en coupe transversale, suivant respectivement les lignes VI-_VI et VII-VII de la figure 3 ;
• la figure 8 est, avec un arrachement local, une vue en perspective qui, analogue à celle de la figure 3, illustre la configuration de moulage de l'outil de pose suivant l'invention ;
• les figures 9A, 9B, 9C sont des vues partielles en élévation qui, analogues à celle de la figure 4, mais à échelle inférieure, illustre diverses phases de la pose d'un repère sur un câble ou conducteur électrique à l'aide de l'outil de pose suivant l'invention.

The characteristics and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the description which follows, by way of example, with reference to the appended schematic drawings in which:

• Figure 1 is a perspective view of a marker for cable or electrical conductor which is more particularly intended for the installation tool according to the invention;
• Figure 2 is an elevational view of this reference, according to arrow II of Figure 1;
• Figure 3 is a perspective view of a setting tool according to the invention;
• Figure 4 is, on a different scale, a partial elevational view, along arrow IV of Figure 3;
• Figure 5 is a local view in cross section along the line VV of Figure 4;
• Figures 6 and 7 are other local views in cross section, respectively on the lines VI- _V I and VII-VII of Figure 3;
• FIG. 8 is, with a local cutaway, a perspective view which, similar to that of FIG. 3, illustrates the molding configuration of the setting tool according to the invention;
• FIGS. 9A, 9B, 9C are partial elevation views which, similar to that of FIG. 4, but on a smaller scale, illustrate various phases of setting a mark on a cable or electrical conductor using the installation tool according to the invention.

In Figures 1, 2 is shown a mark of. wiring 10 of the type that is the subject of French patent application No. 83 03575 mentioned above.

This is a benchmark of this type that is more particularly intended for the store forming tool according to the invention.

Since such a reference 10 is not in itself part of the present invention, it will not be described in detail here.

It will suffice to recall that it comprises, overall, a plate 11, the upper flat surface of which is suitable for receiving, by printing for example, any element of identification, such as a number, symbol or other, and two legs elastically deformable 12, suitable for jointly enclosing the cable or electrical conductor to be fitted.

Transversally, in FIG. 2, the plate 11 extends flush with the legs 12 over its entire height, for a first side of these legs 12, while, for the other side of these, having a step 13, it protrudes slightly from the legs 12, over a portion of its height remote from them.

On the thus projecting part of the plate 11 are recessed, at a distance from one another, two blind housings 14, and, on the other side, this plate 11 has, projecting, in correspondence with these housings blind 14, two pins 15 which are complementary thereto.

Markers 10 aligned one after the other on the same cable or electrical conductor being in line with one another can thus advantageously be secured to each other, if desired, by engagement of the lugs 15 of each of them in the blind housings 14 of the immediately following mark.

In elevation, the plate 11 projects laterally on either side of the elastic legs 12.

_T el shown diagrammatically in broken lines in Figure 3, it is thus possible to realize in the form of beads 16, such pins 10, each of these pins 10 being within such a string 16, connected by a tearable veil mark 10 immediately adjacent, along the corresponding lower transverse edge of its plate 11.

In such a chain 16, the pins 10 are aligned with each other, not by being in the extension of one another, as previously, but by being arranged side by side with respect to each other.

In practice, a chain 16 of marks 10 thus constituted by marks 10 arranged side by side is produced by molding, and more precisely by molding of any suitable synthetic material.

As illustrated in FIGS. 3 to 9, the tool 18 used according to the invention for fitting on one cable or electrical conductor 19 one or more pins 10 comprises, in the form of a configuration rod generally parallelepiped, an elongated body 20 suitable for supporting and guiding such markers 10.

In practice, this body 20 is hollow.

It has in fact longitudinally an internal recess 21, which is suitable for receiving the pins 10 concerned, and which opens to the outside at one and the other of its ends.

In the embodiment shown, the body 20 of the tool 18 is opened laterally by a slot 22 over at least part of its length, said body 20 thus generally having a U-shaped cross section on the corresponding portion thereof. .

In practice, in this embodiment, this is the case for the entire length of the body 20.

According to the invention, to that, 23, of the outlets of its internal recess 21 which forms the outlet outlet thereof, this body 20 is extended by a canopy 24.

In practice, this awning 24, which is disposed on the same side of the body 20 as the slot 22 thereof, itself has a U-shaped cross section whose concavity is oriented in the opposite direction to that of the U-shaped cross section of this body 20.

Its central part 25, forming a roof, is therefore disposed on the side opposite to the central part 26, forming the sole, of the body 20, while being generally parallel thereto.

At its end opposite to the body 20, the canopy 24 transversely includes an end wall 27 which, in the embodiment shown, extends beyond its longitudinal walls 28A, 28B, in the form of a protruding part 33.

As will appear below, it is thus adapted to form a stop.

In practice, the canopy 24 thus formed, which extends in overhang, is in one piece with the body 20 which it extends.

On either side of its middle part 26, the body 20, which in practice forms the current part of the tool 18 according to the invention, itself comprises two longitudinal walls 30A, 30B.

By their external faces, these longitudinal walls 30A, 30B are each respectively in the extension of the longitudinal walls 28A, 28B of the canopy 24.

But, for reasons which will appear below, the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20 have a thickness greater than that of the longitudinal walls 28A, 28B of the canopy 24, so that their internal faces are projecting from the faces internal of these.

On the side of the central wall 25 of the awning 24, the longitudinal walls 28A, 28B thereof connect to those 30A, 30B of the body 20 by triangular extensions 37A, 37B in the embodiment shown, and, these triangular extensions 37A, 37B having the same thickness as said longitudinal walls 28A, 28B, with their internal and external faces respectively in the extension of those thereof, the internal faces of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B are also in protrusion on the internal faces of said triangular extensions 37A, 37B.

In practice, the distance D between the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20, measured between their internal faces, is substantially equal to the thickness E of the legs 12 of the pins 10, while being slightly greater than this thickness E.

At the outlet outlet 23 of the internal recess 21 of the body 20, that is to say the connection of the latter with the canopy 24 which follows it, the transverse ends 31A, 31B, or lips, of the walls longitudinal 30A, 30B of this body 20 are offset longitudinally relative to each other.

For example, and as shown, the transverse end 31A of the longitudinal wall 30A is set back relative to the transverse end 31B of the longitudinal wall 30B.

Measured with respect to the projecting part 33 of the end wall 27 of the canopy 24, the transverse end 31A of the longitudinal wall 30A of the body 20 is at a distance D _A from this end wall 27 substantially equal to the overall width L of the legs 12 of a reference 10 while being slightly greater than this width L, while the transverse end 31B of the associated longitudinal wall 30B is at a distance D _B from this transverse end wall 27 less than said overall width L.

Over at least part of their length, the transverse ends 31A, 31B of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20 form straight slices, substantially perpendicular to the middle part 26 of this body 20.

For the transverse end 31A of the longitudinal wall 30A this is the case over almost its entire length, this transverse end 31A connecting at right angles to the corresponding edge of the longitudinal wall 28A of the canopy 24.

However, for the rest, and for reasons which will appear below, broadly rounded connecting leaves are provided at the end of these transverse ends 31A, 31B of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20, at the base of these. , that is to say on the side opposite to the awning 24.

At the opposite outlet, 35, of the internal recess 21 of the body 20, that is to say at the outlet of this internal recess 21 which forms the inlet outlet, the transverse ends of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20 are bevelled, so as to facilitate the engagement, in said internal recess 21, of a chain 16 of marks 10.

To hold and guide the pins 10 in this internal recess 21, at least one of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20 has, internally, over at least part of its length, a shoulder 36A, 36B.

In practice, for both of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B, this shoulder 36A, 36B extends continuously over the entire length of such a longitudinal wall 30A, 30B, up to the right of the 'associated 24 awning.

The shoulders 36A, 36B which the body 20 thus presents internally therefore protrude from the internal face of the triangular extensions 37A, 37B of the longitudinal walls 28A, 28B of the canopy 24 in the embodiment shown, FIG. 8.

From one of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20 to the other, the shoulders 36A, 36B are generally at the same level.

They are in fact generally located at a distance d from the internal face of the middle part 25 of the awning 24 substantially equal to the thickness of the plate 11 of the pins 10, while being slightly greater than this thickness.

But, this thickness being appreciated, on one side of the plate 11, in line with the step 13 thereof, and, on the other of this plate 11, at the lower part of the pins 15 which project therein, l shoulder 36A of the longitudinal wall 30A of the body 20 is slightly set back with respect to the shoulder 36B of the longitudinal wall 30B, the pins 10 having to bear on the shoulder 36A of the longitudinal wall 30A by said step 13 of their plate 11 while they must carry by their lugs 15 on the shoulder 36B of the longitudinal wall 30B.

For the longitudinal wall 30B, the shoulder 36B is a straight shoulder, that is to say a shoulder which extends substantially perpendicular to the internal face of this longitudinal wall 30B, from the latter.

In practice, it forms the crest of the longitudinal wall 30B for at least part of its length, and, in fact, for the whole of it in the embodiment shown.

But it only corresponds to a fraction of the thickness of the longitudinal wall 30B, the remaining portion of the corresponding edge thereof being bevelled by a chamfer.

In practice, the fraction of thickness of the longitudinal wall 30B to which the shoulder 36B thus forming the crest thereof is that which, as already indicated above, is thicker than the corresponding longitudinal wall 28B of the canopy 24 and the triangular extension 37B thereof.

It therefore stops in practice along a straight edge 38B, Figures 4 and 8, in line with the corresponding end transverse edge of the middle portion 26 of the body 20, and therefore, as already also indicated above, substantially at awning right 24.

The longitudinal wall 30A has an extra thickness similar vis-à-vis the corresponding longitudinal wall 28A of the canopy 24, and, like this one, this additional thickness ends with a straight edge 37B, FIG. 4, in line with the corresponding transverse end of the median part 26 associated.

For the longitudinal wall 30A, the shoulder 36A is oblique, this shoulder 36A making an acute angle with the internal face of this longitudinal wall 30A, in order to reduce the friction against it of the plate 11 of the pins 10.

In addition, for transverse holding in both directions of the marks 10, it forms, in the embodiment shown, one of the sides of a groove 40 suitable for guiding the corresponding edge of the plate 11 of these marks 10 .

In the embodiment shown, the other 41 of the sides of this groove 40 belongs to a flap 42, which, distinct from the longitudinal wall 30A concerned, is suitably secured thereto.

In practice, this flap 42 is pressed against the longitudinal wall 30A with which it is thus associated.

In the embodiment shown, the flap 42 is articulated to the longitudinal wall 30A at the base thereof, by a line of thin material 43 forming a hinge, the assembly thus being able to be produced in one piece by molding of any suitable synthetic material.

In the embodiment shown, it is by latching means that the flap 42 is secured to the longitudinal wall 30A with which it is associated.

To this end, the latter has, from place to place, projecting from its external face, hooks 44, and, in correspondence, the flap 42 has, from place to place, openings 45, suitable for the engagement of said hooks 44.

In practice, these hooks 44 are hooked on a shoulder 46 of the openings 45 set back relative to the external face of the flap 42, so that they only extend in the thickness of this flap 42, without protruding from this one.

In practice, also, the flap 42 still has, from place to place, at its base, in line with the hooks 44, openings 47, suitable for the passage of the necessary drawers, for molding, for the formation of these hooks 44.

These openings 47, which extend from the thin material line 43, locally interrupt the latter.

Finally, in the embodiment shown, there is provided, in the vicinity of the end of the body 20 opposite the canopy 24, projecting into the internal recess 21 thereof, a ratchet tooth 48 specific to the longitudinal retention of the marks 10 in this body 20.

In the embodiment shown, this ratchet tooth 48 is provided projecting from the bottom of the groove 40 formed jointly by the longitudinal wall 30A of the body 20 and the flap 42 associated therewith, FIGS. 7 and 8.

As shown schematically in broken lines in Figures 3 and 6, it suffices, for the implementation of the tool 18 according to the invention, to introduce therein, into the internal recess 21 of its body 20, by the outlet entry 35 thereof, a string 16 of marks 10, by carrying, as indicated above, the plate 11 of these marks 10 on the shoulders 36A, 36B provided for this purpose on the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of this body 20, and by advancing it with the thumb along the latter, by means of its slot 22.

In turn, the pins 10 of this chain 16 then elastically cross the ratchet tooth 48, which, as indicated above, ensures a suitable longitudinal retention of the assembly in the body 20, by opposing a retrograde movement in the latter.

In practice, the engagement of a chain 16 of marks 10 in the tool 18 according to the invention can be done until, as illustrated by FIGS. 9, that of these marks 10 which is the most in front is to the right of the canopy 24 extending the body 20 of this tool 18.

But, filling the latter may as well be only partial.

Anyway, when the tool 18 according to the invention thus contains marks 10, it forms a store for them, until they are used.

This implementation is done first by bringing the most forward marks 10 to the right of the canopy 24, if it is not already in such a location, as is the case during a simple filling partial body 20.

When a mark 10 is thus in line with the canopy 24, in abutment against the transverse end wall 27 thereof, FIG. 9A, it is no longer held except by the tearable veil which connects it to the mark 10 immediately following, while still being properly guided by the longitudinal walls 28A, 28B of the canopy 24.

In the alternative embodiment illustrated in broken lines in Figures 4 and 5, there is however provided, to improve the retention, a projection 49, which, present on one of the walls of the canopy 24, on the internal face of the latter, and, for example, on the protruding part 33 of its transverse end wall 27, as shown, is substantially level with the shoulders 36A, 36B of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20 while being slightly behind them.

Anyway, and as shown in Figure 9B, it then suffices to present the tool 18 transversely to the cable or electrical conductor 19 to be fitted, that is to say substantially perpendicular thereto , and to engage on it the reference 10 present at the right of the canopy 24 of this tool 18.

As it is easy to understand, this engagement is facilitated by the largely rounded connection leaves present at the base of the transverse ends 31A, 31B of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body of the tool 18, these connection leaves automatically leading the reference 10 concerned to the right of the cable or electrical conductor 19 to be fitted.

When, by elastic deformation of its legs 12, this mark 10 is thus engaged on the cable or electrical conductor 19, it suffices to impart a rocking movement to the tool 18, to ensure the detachment of this mark 10 from that to which it is attached , by tearing the corresponding veil.

As indicated above, this tilting operation, which is carried out in the direction of the cable or electrical conductor 19, is facilitated by the longitudinal offset existing between the transverse ends 31A, 31B of the longitudinal walls 30A, 30B of the body 20 of the tool 18.

In any event, the resistance to tearing of a mark 10 on a cable or electrical conductor 19 is much greater than the tear resistance of the web connecting it to the adjacent mark 10, so that its detachment from the latter is done without difficulty.

The composition of any complex reference, that is to say of a reference involving the use of several references 10, is thus made, according to the invention, on the cable or conductor 19 concerned, by setting successive places thereon various markers 10 necessary.

It can be both marks bearing the same identification element, in which case the same tool 18 is used successively for each of the marks 10 thus to be placed, as marks bearing different identification elements each of others, in which case installation tools 18 forming separate stores are successively used, the same tool 18 normally containing only markers 10 all carrying the same identification element since these markers 10 normally come from a chain of markers 10 all identical.

In practice, the installation tool shown is more particularly suitable for a left-hander, the slot 22 of its body 20 being transversely more widely exposed on the right than on the left.

It goes without saying that, for a fitting tool more particularly intended for a right-handed person, a provision the opposite is preferably adopted.

It will be noted that, in all cases, the fitting tool according to the invention advantageously comprises in service, that is to say once the flap that it comprises pressed against the longitudinal wall concerned, no part mobile.

It will also be noted that, for simplicity, it has only one internal recess, for a single string of markers of the same type.

The present invention is moreover not limited to the embodiment and implementation described and shown, but encompasses any variant.

In addition, its field of application is not limited to wiring references only, and, a fortiori, only wiring references of the type of the one to which it has been more particularly described for the sake of convenience.

On the contrary, this field of application can also be extended to other articles to be installed, and, for example to cable ends.

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1. Installation tool forming a store for any articles (10), in particular for wiring markers, of the type comprising an elongated body (20) suitable for supporting and guiding such articles (10), said body (20) having longitudinally an internal recess (21), which is suitable for receiving these articles (10), and which opens to the outside at one and the other of its ends, characterized in that, at that (23) of the outlets its internal recess (21) which forms the outlet outlet, its body (20) is extended by a canopy (24). 2. Installation tool according to claim 1, characterized in that, its body (20) being open longitudinally, over at least part of its length, by a slot (22), the awning (24) is arranged in the same way side of the body (20) as said slot (22). 3. installation tool according to any one of claims 1, 2, characterized in that the awning (24), which is cantilevered, is integral with the body (20) that it extends. 4. Installation tool according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that, the body (20) generally having a U-shaped cross section, the canopy (24) itself has a U-shaped cross section, the concavity is oriented in the opposite direction to that of the U-shaped cross section of the body (20). 5. Installation tool according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the awning (24) is adapted to form a stop. 6. Installation tool according to claim 5, characterized in that, to form a stop, the canopy (24) has a wall (27) transversely at its end. 7. Installation tool according to any one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that a projection (49) is provided on at least one of the walls of the canopy (24), on the internal face of this one. 8. Installation tool according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that, at that (23) of the outlets of its internal recess (21) which forms the outlet outlet, the ends (31A, 31B) longitudinal walls (30A, 30B) of the body (20) are offset longitudinally with respect to each other. 9. Installation tool according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that, for holding and guiding the articles (10), at least one of the longitudinal walls (30A, 30B) of the body (20 ), has, internally, over at least part of its length, a shoulder (36A, 36B). 10. Installation tool according to claim 9, characterized in that said shoulder (36A, 36B) extends continuously over the entire length of the longitudinal wall (30A, 30B) concerned, up to the right of the awning (24). 11. Installation tool according to claims 7 and 10 taken together, characterized in that said projection (49) is substantially level with said shoulder (36A, 36B) while being slightly recessed with respect thereto. 12. Installation tool according to any one of claims 9 to 11, characterized in that, for at least one (30B) of the longitudinal walls (30A, 30B) of the body (20), said shoulder (36B) forms the crest of this longitudinal wall (30B), for at least part of the length thereof. 13. Installation tool according to any one of claims 9 to 12, characterized in that, for at least one (30A) of the longitudinal walls (30A, 30B) of the body (20), said shoulder (36A) forms one of the sides of a groove (40). 14. Installation tool according to claim 13, characterized in that the other (41) of the sides of said groove (40) belongs to a flap (42), which, distinct from the longitudinal wall (30A) concerned, is suitably joined to it. 15. installation tool according to claim 14, characterized in that said flap (42) is pressed against the longitudinal wall (30A) with which it is associated. 16. Installation tool according to any one of claims 14, 15 characterized in that said flap (42) is articulated at its base to the longitudinal wall (30A) with which it is associated. 17. Installation tool according to claim 16, characterized in that said flap (42) is articulated integrally with the longitudinal wall with which it is associated. 18. Installation tool according to any one of claims 14 to 17, characterized in that said flap (42) is secured by latching means (44, 46) to the longitudinal wall (30A) with which it is associated. . 19. Installation tool according to any one of claims 9 to 18, characterized in that, for at least one (30A) of the longitudinal walls (30A, 30B) of the body (20), said shoulder (36A) s 'extends obliquely to the internal face of the longitudinal wall (30A) concerned. 20. Installation tool according to any one of claims 1 to 19, characterized in that there is provided, projecting in the internal recess (21) of the hollow body (20), a ratchet tooth (48).

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