Unitary Handle Composed Of Different Cooperating Materials Patents (Class 16/902)
  • Patent number: 7434318
    Abstract: A tool includes a blade having a working edge and an attachment edge opposite the working edge, a handle with distal and proximal ends and a body having at least one diameter. The proximal end is associated with the attachment edge. A hammer element is associated with the distal end, and a periphery of the hammer element extends in a radial direction greater than the at least one diameter of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: United States Gypsum Company
    Inventors: Ricardo Perez, Jason Lind, Matthew Earle Myers, Scott Fong
  • Patent number: 7152511
    Abstract: A polychrome transparent tool handle comprises a base, an identifying member, a plug, an ear member, a plurality of arcuate members and a cladding layer. The colors of the identifying member, the arcuate members and the cladding layer are different, the handle is made of light-transmitting plastic and interiorly received the identifying member, so that the identifying member is visible from the outside of the base of the identifying member. The ear member and the plug are disposed at an end of the base, while at another end of the base is fixed a tool head. The arcuate members are positioned on the peripheral surface of the base and are laminated with a cladding layer, and the arcuate members partially projects out of the cladding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Inventor: Shy Fen Fen
  • Patent number: 6698065
    Abstract: A marking implement includes a structure which is capable of automatic orientation in an upright position upon a horizontal surface. The structure includes a weighted base having a substantially rounded and convex exterior, and adapted to support the marking implement vertically upon a horizontal surface. A handle extends between a making head and the weighted base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventor: Jennifer L. Lauer
  • Patent number: 6594863
    Abstract: A handle for a hand-held or operated object or appliance comprises a main body (4) of a rigid material and a separate moulding insert (14) which can be fitted on the main body and having a raised pattern or shape (“HO”) including at least one element thereon of closed form, the insert (14) defining therein or defining with the main body a bore or bores (18, 24) which communicate with the interior of the element of closed form, through which a soft plastics material such as an elastomer being overmoulded on the handle can flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Hayco Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventor: Gregory Clegg Spooner
  • Patent number: 6490760
    Abstract: A hand held implement includes a structure which is capable of automatic orientation in an upright position upon a horizontal surface. The structure includes a weighted base having a substantially rounded and convex exterior, and adapted to support the hand held implement vertically upon a horizontal surface. A working end portion of the implement is adapted for performing the desired task, such as for holding food, or for painting a surface, or for brushing teeth. A handle extends between the working end portion and the weighted base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2002
    Inventors: Jennifer L. Lauer, Kevin Krauss, John Lapetina
  • Patent number: 6471433
    Abstract: A pen having a 3-dimensional pattern has at least one flexible strip. The flexible strip is sandwiched between a pattern ring and a liner ring with the 3-dimensional pattern partially protruding out of the pattern ring from a corresponding through hole. The liner ring abuts a bottom end of a connecting ring. The connecting ring is formed with an annular flange on its outer surface. The pattern ring abuts the annular flange to enclose the liner ring. A top end of the connecting ring is clamped onto a barrel of the pen, and a bottom end of the liner ring is threadingly connected to a tip of the pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Ding Area Enterprice Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ching-Huang Lee
  • Patent number: 6442787
    Abstract: A toothbrush having two head sections, the sections being normally biased to assume an angle with respect to each other, to thereby define a generally concave bristle tip configuration. The two sections of the head having facing ends joined by a thin bridge section integral with the two heads. In one embodiment, there is one bridge section near the lower surface of the head. In another embodiment, there are two longitudinally spaced bridge sections each near the lower head surface. In a third embodiment, the bridge section is a thin integral connection between facing ends of the two sections. In other embodiments, the two head sections are normally aligned and are also joined by a thin, integral bridge section, with the bristles of the head section most remote from the handle being of uniformly different lengths. The space between the two facing ends is filled with an elastomer, typically SANTOPRENE (brand). The two head sections define an articulated head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventor: Douglas J. Hohlbein
  • Patent number: 6408474
    Abstract: A paint brush includes a two component brush handle having a head portion made of a relatively rigid plastic material and a grip portion made of a relatively soft, flexible elastomeric material. The head portion has one end adapted to fit within the ferrule of a brush and an other end having an integral web portion protruding axially outwardly therefrom about which the grip portion is over molded to secure the grip portion to the head portion. One or more openings are provided in the web portion through which the material of the grip portion is caused to extend during the over molding step to provide a mechanical connection between the grip portion and head portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: The Wooster Brush Company
    Inventors: John S. Husted, William P. Camp, Jr.
  • Patent number: 6237192
    Abstract: A removable grip for an ultrasound probe. The grip may be an integrated or unitary hand-held device having a circular or C-shaped cross-section that, when located at a predetermined operative position on the probe, removably surrounds a substantial portion of the probe to provide an exterior shape and size optimal for a desired application. The probe is generally an elongated instrument having proximal and distal ends and an external casing that is grasped by a sonographer. An ultrasound transducer is generally disposed at the distal end and a cord for transferring data and power typically extends from the proximal end of the probe. The grip includes proximal and distal ends and, in one disclosed aspect, a channel for receiving the cord. The channel is defined by opposing edges of the grip that longitudinally extend between the proximal and distal ends. The channel extends through the grip from an exterior surface to an interior surface of the grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Agilent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brevard S. Garrison, Michael G. Verga, Julie A. Beberman
  • Patent number: 6170123
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tool handle for an electronic screwdriver or other hand tool. The tool handle includes a tool handle body having a longitudinal dimension and comprising a convex portion that comprises about ⅖ of the longitudinal dimension proximal to the grip of the handle body and a relatively soft concave portion comprising substantially all of the remaining ⅕ of the tool handle body proximal to the working end. The tool handle further including a cap disposed at the grip end of the tool handle body, which cap is rotatable relative to the tool handle body. A user may grip the tool handle in various positions to apply varying levels of torque to a screw or other workpiece. Preferably, the cap includes a dome-shaped recess at the grip end for centering of the tool between the fingertip and working end of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Felo Werkzeugfabrik Holland-Letz GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Holland-Letz
  • Patent number: 6128808
    Abstract: Handle for tools such as screwdrivers, cormprising a core of hard plastic material around a metal shaft and a gripping surface (14) of soft material covering parts of the core, where the core within the regions covered by the gripping surface is made with a multitude of protruding lower blocks (17) with flat tops, and the soft material filling the space between lower blocks to the level of the tops of lower blocks (17) to form base surface (16) and a multitude of blocks (15) raised from the base surface, arranged in a repetitive pattern with voids where the lower blocks protrude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Conny Jansson, Hans Himbert, H.ang.kan Bergkvist
  • Patent number: 6122802
    Abstract: A tool handle includes a number of blocks attached to a handle member, and a cover sleeve engaged on the handle member and having a number of orifices for receiving the blocks and for retaining the blocks in place. The handle member and the blocks may be secured together by the engagement of projections and cavities. The user may adjust the blocks into various kinds of shapes and patterns. The blocks may each include one or more openings for receiving the materials of the cover sleeve and for stably securing the blocks to the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Inventor: Chi Yu Lo
  • Patent number: 6108870
    Abstract: A tool handle includes a handle member, a number of blocks attached to the handle member, and a cover sleeve engaged on the handle member and having a number of orifices for receiving the blocks and for retaining the blocks in place. The handle member includes a number of cavities, and the blocks each includes one or more projections engaged into the cavities of the handle member for attaching onto the handle member and for allowing the user to adjust the blocks into various kinds of shapes and patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Inventor: Chi Yu Lo
  • Patent number: 6094781
    Abstract: A handle for tools such as screwdrivers where an end region is shaped as a smooth rounded surface and made by injection molding in multiple steps from at least two differently colored plastic materials, which are tactilely indistinct, to form a visible marking for identification of the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Sandvik AB
    Inventors: Conny Jansson, Hans Himbert, H.ang.kan Bergkvist
  • Patent number: 6070301
    Abstract: Hammer rebound shock and hand and wrist fatigue associated with the use of a wire seating and/or cutting tool, such as an impact tool, is alleviated by a covering at least the butt end of the tool handle with an internally ribbed cushioning sleeve of elastically deformable material, such as soft rubber. Because of its ribbed configuration and soft rubber material, the cushioning sleeve readily absorbs the rebound of the hammer impact force that would otherwise be transmitted through the handle in the course of operation of the tool, and thereby provides shock protection for the craftsperson's hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2000
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Michael M. Fallandy