Abstract: The invention herein provides for a tab lifting and leveraging device for opening a pop top or pull top container wherein said pop top or pull top container is of hand held size and having a sealed opening and a lift tab located on its top surface. Said tab lifting and leveraging device of the invention herein comprising a planar length of solid durable material having at least a length and a width. Said device further having a bottom edge, a top edge, a proximate side edge, a distal side edge, a prying element, a rear groove, a recessed fulcrum point, and a handle. When in use, said prying element is fitted through said lift tab and lifted at a given angle against the container surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for rapid installation of threaded fasteners is provided. The apparatus includes a drive portion configured for being received by a rotary tool, a bit holder extending from the drive portion and configured for receiving a tool bit, the bit holder defining an elongate portion, and a sleeve configured for translatable movement along the elongate portion. The sleeve has a first extended position in which an end of the sleeve extends substantially beyond the tool bit and a retraction position in which the sleeve does not enclose the tool bit. A spring biases the sleeve into the extended position. Pressing of an end of the sleeve against a working surface imparts translation of the sleeve in a direction from the extended position towards the retracted position.

Abstract: A glass breaking tool for breaking a glass pane comprising a head arranged for contact with the glass pane, a handle movable with respect to the head and a pin crusher arranged in the head and handle wherein the tool is adjustable between a rest position in which the pin crusher is locked inside the head, a releasing position in which the pin crusher is released inside the head and a breaking position in which a tip of the pin crusher is at least partially outside the head.

Abstract: A unitary base for a torque limiting device is disclosed. The base accepting a plurality of swappable torque limiting fixtures (STLF), whereby a single unitary disposable plastic base may be utilized to form a variety of different specific torque limiting devices and a method to construct and configure such a device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pipe clamping device comprising a housing which has a tubular center in which a pipe is to be positioned. The pipe clamping device comprises at least three gripping devices for synchronous movement in towards the pipe. Each gripping device is disposed with a direction of movement in towards the tubular center, where each gripping device is arranged in order, in contact with the pipe, to provide a holding force. The pipe clamping device is provided with elongate flexible transmission elements, each of the elongate flexible transmission elements being attached to one of the gripping devices and running in contact with at least one support means to attachment to each of the other gripping devices. Upon movement of at least one of the gripping device, this movement is transmitted to at least one of the other gripping device by the associated elongate transmission element.

Abstract: An open wrench includes two heads overlapped to each other, two covers connected to top and bottom of the heads, and a pawl. Each head has a first recess, a recessed section, a contact face, and a second recess. The pawl is movably located within the second recess. The pawl has a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, a reception slot and a curved slot. A resilient member is located in the reception slot. A pin extends through the covers and the curved slot. The pin contacts one end of the resilient member and contacts one inner end of the curved slot. When an object is located in the first recess, the contact face contacts one side of the object, and the first and second engaging portions contact two adjacent sides of the object. The object can be rotated continuously.

Abstract: A hand tool with a latch structure includes a main body (10) and a latch unit (20) coupled to the main body (10), and the latch unit (20) includes a rod body (21) and an elastic element (22). The rod body (21) has a center hole (211) formed in an axial direction parallel to the rod body (21) and a through hole (213) formed in an axial direction perpendicular to the rod body (21) and communicated with the center hole (211). The elastic element (22) has a circular plate (221) and a tongue (222) formed by bending from an end of circular plate (221), and the circular plate (221) is clamped outside the rod body (21), and the tongue (222) passes through the through hole (213) into the center hole (211) to achieve the effects of an easy installation and a secured latch.

Abstract: In a device for releasing a securing screw for a unit in a housing, in particular a pinion unit in a steering gear of a motor vehicle, the securing screw is connected via an external thread to an internal thread in the housing, wherein the securing screw is provided with a latching device, which has latching levers disposed distributed on the circumference of the securing screw, each of which said latching levers is provided with latching lugs disposed on the free ends of the latching levers. The latching lugs latch into teething gaps of a teething geometry of the housing. The latching devices can be connected to a tool in order to release the latching levers having the latching lugs from the latched position by means of a radially inwardly directed movement of the latching levers.

Abstract: A tire changing tool comprising a tool body, a ram, a ram actuator, a clamp arm, and a clamp actuator. The tool body is comprised of a housing, a lateral bracket, and first and second holding feet. The ram is comprised of a ram body and a ram base comprised of first and second opposed ram feet. The ram body is removable from an inner cavity of the housing, and is rotatable and replaceable in the inner cavity of the housing. Prior to fitting the tool to the tire and wheel for its intended use, the position of the ram base may selected between a first position in which the first ram foot extends laterally outwardly a first distance between the first and second holding feet, or a second position in which the second ram foot extends laterally outwardly a second distance between the first and second holding feet.

Abstract: A wrench for unthreading a well head flange from a pipe is provided. The wrench can include a pipe jaw for gripping the pipe, and a torque arm assembly for applying rotational force to the well head flange. The assembly can include a torque arm wherein one end of the torque arm can be pivotally attached to a bolt hole disposed through the well head flange. Extending a cylinder disposed between the assembly and to an opposing end of the torque arm can cause the torque arm contact and rotate the well head flange relative to the pipe.

Abstract: A ratchet wrench includes a handle, a driving head, an engaging member, a spring and a controlling knob. The handle has a receiving groove, a transverse hole in one lateral side of the handle, and a longitudinal hole in a bottom of the receiving groove. The driving head has a connecting portion pivotally connected to the handle. The engaging member is movably received in the longitudinal hole, and has a guiding cutout in a lateral side thereof. The spring is interposed between a bottom of the longitudinal hole and the engaging member. The controlling knob has an abutting block received in the guiding cutout of the engaging member. The abutting block is substantially oblong in shape such that rotational movement of the controlling knob drives the engaging member to be disengaged from the driving head.

Abstract: A through-hole type power ratchet wrench includes a socket bracket, a swingable member, a ratchet socket, first and second pawls, and first and second resilient elements. The swingable member is disposed in the socket bracket and adjacent to an outer surface of the ratchet socket. The pawls are swingably fixed on the swingable member. The pawls, biased by the respective resilient elements, tend to engage with the outer surface of the ratchet socket. The wrench also includes a limiting member configured to isolate one of the first and second pawls from the ratchet socket. The limiting member is formed with an opening adapted for allowing one of the pawls to pass therethrough, and the limiting member is moveable about the ratchet socket between first and second positions. The opening of the limiting member faces towards the first pawl and second pawls when at the first and second positions, respectively.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus and kit for tensioning a stud in a bolted joint to a desired preload, the apparatus comprising a locking means adapted for engagement with the stud, a removable bridge member arranged to at least partially enclose the locking means and to receive the stud therethrough, a removable actuator operable to actuate the locking means through the bridge member and removable tensioning means configured to apply tension to a load bearing surface of the bridge member so as to transfer tension to the stud, such that the actuator is operable to lock the locking means when the desired preload in the stud is achieved. The invention has application in many industries, including hydropower, wind, gas and steam turbines, nuclear, metal manufacturing, mining, shipbuilding and oil & petrochemical.

Abstract: A pole assembly includes a chuck, and the chuck includes a chuck body with opposed fastener openings extending therethrough, and a shank. The pole assembly includes a socket piece, and the socket piece includes a conduit fitting body and a socket piece body, and opposed fastener openings extending through the conduit fitting body, and a socketed body opening extending through the socket fitting body. The pole assembly includes a conduit which extends through a distal chuck body opening of the chuck and an unsocketed body opening of the conduit fitting body.

Abstract: A tool for servicing air brake systems. The tool includes a sliding bar locking mechanism. On one end of the bar is a movable, lockable tubular member; on the other end is a fixed hook member. The tool permits one person working alone to quickly replace an air brake diaphragm.

Abstract: An impact screwdriver includes a housing, a battery arranged in the housing, an electric motor arranged inside the housing, a transmission part driven by the electric motor and an impacting part, the impacting part including a hammer, an anvil matched to and hammered by the hammer, and an output shaft revolved by the anvil, wherein the rated voltage of the battery is less than or equal to 4.25V, the impact frequency of the hammer and the anvil is at least 30 Hz, and the ratio of the output torque (Nm) of the output shaft to the rated voltage of the battery is 1.8˜4.5.

Abstract: A barrel type ratchet wrench with a snap-in structure, including a ratchet acting head installed at a wrench body, a shallow groove formed at a position adjacent to a hollow barrel and having a positioning bolt hole formed at the center of the shallow groove for plugging a direction switching button and a positioning bolt of a ratchet module. A snap plate with an appearance similar to the profile of the shallow groove and having a snap portion, a long hole and a pushing portion is installed under the direction switching button, and a collar having a containing hole corresponsive to a locking component is disposed at the wrench body proximate to the ratchet acting head for containing an elastic member, and the pushing portion of the snap plate has a corresponding end plugged into the containing hole and normally abutted by the elastic member.

Abstract: A multifunction health professional tool, having a pair of scissors with a pair of blades and a pair of handles connected by a pair of shanks. The tool also includes a Babinski reflex hammer detachably connected to one of the handles, a Taylor reflex hammer having a first portion connected to one of the handles and a second portion connected to the opposing handle, a slide ruler attached to one of the shanks, and a pupil dilator light attached to one of the shanks.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure describe a protective tool cover and a method of making the protective tool cover. The embodiments comprises a protective tool cover having a proximate and distal end; an internal cavity continuing from the proximate to the distal end, the internal cavity being adapted to receive a jaw portion of a tool in order to enclose the jaw portion of the tool with the cover; and a portion of the cover connecting the proximate and distal end, positioned to interact with the jaw portion of the jaw of the tool.

Abstract: A multi-purpose hitch tool includes a removal device that is coupled with a first end of an elongated handle. The removal device is configured to remove a cotter pin from a hitch pin or to strike the hitch pin out of engagement with a hitch receiver. A brush assembly is coupled with a second end of the elongated handle and is configured to remove debris from an interior cavity of the hitch receiver. The brush assembly includes a first bristle array that is configured to scrape the debris from the interior cavity. A second bristle array is disposed over an opposite lateral side of the elongated handle from the first bristle array. The second bristle array is less rigid than the first bristle array and is configured to bend against an interior surface within the interior cavity to bias the first bristle array against an opposite interior surface.