Ticks are representatives of tools from the articulated-lip-like group. They are actively used in various fields of human activity. They are intended for extraction, capture, and also snacking of metal products of small formats.
Historical perspective
Initially, as a tool, pincers were designed to extract hot metal billets and crucibles of molten metal from furnaces. And also used by blacksmiths to hold a variety of blanks during forging.
Archaeologists argue that the prototype of ticks - tongs that had a rod-axis - was invented in the Neolithic era. Then this tool was made of burnt wood.
The first image of manual tick tools belong to the VI-V centuries BC. In the Bronze Age, blacksmiths used primitive ticks as clamps. They are currently found in the burials of blacksmiths as an inventory of burials, indicating that the deceased had a special and fairly high social status.
Since ancient times, ticks have been two castor oil beads that are connected by a rivet that acts as an axis. This tool from ancient times testified to specialized blacksmithing. Together with the anvil and the hammer, the ticks were an attribute of numerous ancient Greek and Roman gods, blacksmiths and lords of thunder (Tor, Volcano, Hephaestus, etc.).
Much later, mites began to be used in construction works, in plumbing, widely used in electrical work, etc. Depending on the specialization and the principle of the device, various mites are called side cutters, pliers, nippers, pliers, etc.
Design, General Purpose
Pliers - a tool that is versatile. He is an indispensable assistant both at home and in the workplace. Their design is two connected parts. Each represents two sections - the worker and the handle. Depending on the purpose for which the tool is intended, the ratio between the jaws (working part) and the handle may vary.
So, standard joiner's pincers have small rounded jaws providing reliable capture. It is very convenient for them to pull out nails or remove fixtures that have become unusable.
Ticks are also a narrow-profile or combined tool. Some models can be equipped with a nail gun, screwdriver, and other devices that are located on the back of the holders.
Pliers: types of tools
Given that ticks are a diverse and variable tool, they are divided into different types that are used in specific areas of activity.
The main difference between ticks (their varieties from the group of articulate-lip instruments) is in the form of a working surface. It determines their main purpose - blacksmithing, the railway sector, electromechanical and electrical work, medicine, dentistry, etc.
Standard pliers
This is a tool with long handles and short jaws. The latter are adjacent to each other in a small area and have flat or pointed edges. Their main purpose is to capture parts.
Blacksmith mites - a tool designed to hold hot metal. Mandatory attribute - long handles with a variety of shapes of sponges.
Railway workers use special pliers that are designed to drag rails and sleepers. These are massive products designed for use by two or more people.
Pliers
Plumbing tongs, or pipe tongs, usually have a serrated notch for convenient gripping of pipes. Sponges have inclined shapes. The swivel joint of the parts can be rearranged, which provides clamping of pipes of various diameters.
Pliers
Pliers are a type of tick that has a flat work surface. Often it is equipped with small incisions. They are designed to grip and hold relatively small parts. For the convenience of working with parts, two such tools are sometimes used at once. They can have various forms of work surfaces, as a result of which they have their own name: long-nose platypus, platypus, narrow-nose pliers. Pliers are often equipped with cutting edges for biting wire.
Combined pliers are also called pliers. Such tools include pliers equipped with a cutting edge for biting nails and wire, gear recesses designed to hold tubes, nuts and other cylindrical parts.
Round pliers
Round-nose pliers (a kind of pincers) differ from the previous type of tools in that they have a circular cross section of the working parts (cone shape). They are designed to bend the wire in order to give it a curved shape. Their design allows you to make bends of various radii. This is an indispensable assistant to jewelers. This type of tick has sponges of various sizes, differing in thickness and length.
Nippers
Nippers are pincers in which the cutting working surface is adapted for biting reinforcement, nails, wire, etc. The cutting edges of the nippers are of various shapes. In this regard, they are divided into five main types: lateral (diagonal, side cutters), end (transverse), cable, stripping (pincers to remove insulation), end.
The most commonly used side cutters or side cutters. They are also designed for biting metal structures, which include bolts, fittings, cables, cables, nails. They are distinguished by a particularly robust design, increased hardness of the working edges. Often, a number of hinge assemblies are used in the design to increase compression force.
Other species of ticks
Electrical tools also belong to the types of tick tools. Among them are terminal tools, crimping tools, designed to remove insulation, insulating (for work related to replacing fuses), current measuring instruments, for connectors and cable entries, etc.
Photos of tick tools of various shapes, where structural differences and additional devices are visible, are presented in the article.
Conclusion
High-quality pincers are made of non-bending tool steel. The working part may have an additional hardening - to increase the strength characteristics. To increase the resistance of this tool to the effects of the aggressive environment in which they have to work, they are coated with special anti-corrosion compounds.
History shows that the pliers made in the USSR were especially reliable. Demand for them among specialists and collectors is high and constantly growing.