Abstract: A slip-joint pliers has crossed pivoting levers joined at pivot portions thereof by a flat-sided bolt extending through openings in the levers and engaged with a nut, one of the openings being elongated and generally dumbbell-shaped to accommodate the slip-joint movement. The pivot portions of the levers have flat facing inner surfaces, in each of which is formed a single-level spring recess surrounding the associated opening, each recess having a peripheral side wall and a flat planar bottom wall extending from the side wall to the associated opening. A helical torsion spring is seated in the recesses and encircles the bolt and has tangent ends respectively engageable with straight bearing portions of the recesses.

Abstract: An adjustable wrench having locked and unlocked conditions is provided. The wrench includes a wrench body including a fixed jaw, and a movable jaw slidably mounted on the wrench body. The wrench body includes first and second contact walls, the second contact wall having a wall cam surface. The wrench also includes an adjuster assembly including a worm gear on the body between the contact walls and threadedly engaged with the movable jaw for moving the movable jaw toward and away from the fixed jaw, and a locking disc disposed between the worm gear and the second contact wall and having a disc cam surface engagable with the wall cam surface of the second contact wall.

Abstract: The ratcheting screwdriver comprises a handle having a bore and a keyway substantially tangent thereto. In the bore is a gear and in the keyway are a pair of pawls which are movable individually into and out of engagement with the gear. An actuator is provided at the forward end of the handle to move these pawls. A cap operates the actuator.