Manual crimping tool for plastic strap

1. A crimping tool for installing a metal crimp seal onto overlapping layers of plastic strap material, comprising:

a tool head;

at least three pairs of jaws disposed in the tool head and operably mounted thereto, each pair including opposingly oriented jaw elements, each pair being spaced from its adjacent pair; and

at least two crimpers, each crimper disposed between adjacent pairs of jaw elements, the crimpers extending straight between the jaw elements, each crimper having a width defined by a front surface and a back surface of each crimper, and a bottom surface disposed between the front surface and the back surface of each crimper and across the width of each crimper, the bottom surface having a rounded profile across the width of each crimper designed to engage the metal crimp.

2. The crimping tool in accordance with claim 1 includes including three pairs of jaws, one being a central jaw pair and the others being terminal jaw pairs and including two crimpers, one crimper positioned between the central jaw pair and one of the terminal jaw pairs and the other crimper disposed between the central jaw pair and the other of the terminal jaw pairs.

3. The crimping tool in accordance with claim 1 including at least one tool operating handle operably connected to the tool head.

4. The crimping tool in accordance with claim 3 including a stationary handle and a tool operating handle, the handle handles being operably connected to the tool head.

5. The crimping tool in accordance with claim 4 including a linkage operably connecting each of the jaw elements of each pair of jaw elements and operably connecting each of the jaw element pairs, the linkage being operably connected to the tool operating handle.