With Screwdriver Patents (Class 7/165)
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Patent number: 5218892Abstract: A parking member service tool is provided, which consists of a body having a first end, a second end, a top surface, a bottom surface and lateral sides. A handle extends from the first end of the body. A elongated blade extends from the second end of the body. A first tool member is mounted to the body and is positioned at the top surface thereof. A second tool member is mounted to the body and is positioned at the bottom surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1992Date of Patent: June 15, 1993Inventor: Anthony Napoli
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Patent number: 5210895Abstract: A combination screwdriver and file including a handle, with the screwdriver and file being in various combinations such as a slot screwdriver with the shank being a round file or a phillips screwdriver with the shank being a three-cornered file. In a second embodiment the handle supports other releaseably held bits in a cavity which may be magnetic.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1992Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Inventors: Harold L. Hull, Dominic A. Letizia
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Patent number: 5205006Abstract: A tool for use by Electricians, as well as by wireman in general, which includes a handle body, a moveable handle portion which is pivotally mounted within a recess of the handle body, and attached to an arm extending forwardly of the pivot and carrying a cutting blade extending towards and opposed to a blade on a screwdriver shaft or base. Each of the wire cutting blades has one or more opposed recesses dimensioned to serve together as wire stripers. A screwdriver shaft having a base end is secured to the front end of the handle body. Extending forwardly of the screwdriver shaft base and spaced slightly laterally therefrom is a dowel shaft for bending wire into eyelets in cooperation with the screwdriver shaft. Replaceably secured to the base of the screwdriver is a cable cutting blade with its cutting edge extending rearwardly from the base of the screwdriver shaft towards the front of the handle body but spaced therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 1990Date of Patent: April 27, 1993Inventor: Alfred J. Panasuk
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Patent number: 5191666Abstract: An adapter to place over a drill bit and the chuck of an electric hand drill to convert it to a power screwdriver, which includes a hollow body with tapering shoulders and an elongated tubular nose having a forward socket for a screwdriver bit, and three spring biased detents to pivot into key holes in the chuck to cause the adapter to rotate with the chuck, the body being of a size to receive said chuck and drill bit completely inside the body.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1991Date of Patent: March 9, 1993Inventor: Linn N. Corbin
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Patent number: 5179748Abstract: A key ring and screwdriver device is disclosed as including a hollow tubular handle having opposite open ends. A reversible screwdriver having different blade ends at an intermediate polygonal cross sectional area is capable of being stored in one open end of the hollow tubular handle. At the opposite open end of the hollow tubular handle, a ferrule is provided. The ferrule includes an outer internally threaded section and inner polygonally shaped section. The outer internally threaded section has a cross sectional dimension greater than the reversible screwdriver blade in order to freely accommodate same. The inner polygonally shaped section has a complementary shape and size for receiving the intermediate polygonal cross sectional area of the reversible screwdriver blade in driving engagement therewith.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 1991Date of Patent: January 19, 1993Assignee: Alexander Manufacturing CompanyInventor: Joseph G. Lipic
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Patent number: 5150261Abstract: A combined screwdriver and magnifying glass includes a screwdriver having a handle and a shank connected to the handle; a block member made of elastic material detachably and frictionally sleeved around the shank; and a magnifying glass having a central hole, the block member being frictionally fitted in the central hole of the magnifying glass.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1991Date of Patent: September 22, 1992Inventor: Allen Tsai
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Patent number: 5149230Abstract: A rotating dual attachment receptacle apparatus tool which allows the operator to use more than one tool accessory without the need of frequent changing of the drilling, driving or fastening accessory. The rotating apparatus tool has three (3) major parts: a stem grip housing having a motor and power means disposed therein; a safety guard housing attached to one end of the stem grip housing and a rotating drill head assembly disposed within the safety guard housing. The rotating drill head assembly has two (2) conventional drill chucks located at opposite ends thereof and is held in place within the cavity of the safety guard housing by means of a main drive shaft which extends from the top inside portion of the safety guard housing into the stem grip housing. The rotating drill head assembly is so constructed that it can be rotated in a 360 degree plane about the longitudinal axis of the main drive shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 1991Date of Patent: September 22, 1992Inventor: Daniel R. Nett
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Patent number: 5129118Abstract: An improved drill accessory apparatus primarily adapted for selective connection to a power tool such as an electric drill to provide additional functions for such a power tool such as a screwdriving function. The apparatus thereby enables a user to first drill a hole and then drive a screw into that drilled hole with the same tool and without requiring removal of a drill bit first used to drill the hole. More significantly, the present apparatus provides the aforementioned accessory feature while overcoming certain safety disadvantages present in the most relevant prior art. One such safety-directed improvement of the present apparatus is derived from a structural design which uses a spring positioned entirely within a housing thereby precluding safety risks that might otherwise be encountered if an external spring were employed such as that shown in the prior art.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1991Date of Patent: July 14, 1992Inventor: Mark W. Walmesley
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Patent number: 5097555Abstract: A kit assembly including a support block mounting a first and second screw driver member arranged for reception and securement within a conventional drill chuck, wherein a plurality of pilot drill assemblies are provided, with each pilot drill assembly including a rearwardly positioned cavity to complementarily receive one of the plurality of drill bit members therewithin to permit initial use of a pilot drill and subsequent use of a drill bit. Further, adapter members are provided to utilize a first style screw driver forward end and a cavity complementarily receiving a screw driver of a further configuration, such as a blade screw driver adapter provided with a Phillips head type cavity to permit use of varying screw driver assemblies in association with a single mounted screw driver member mounted within the aforenoted drill.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1990Date of Patent: March 24, 1992Inventor: Steven M. Dwyer
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Patent number: 5077850Abstract: A utility device for a key ring which serves a plurality utilities, including key ring anchorage, bottle cap opener, screw driver, hook and item holder with respect to another object. The utility device has a generally C-shaped structure having a central open space defined by interior walls of a main member, two cross members and two opposed tabs. A hole is provided in the C-shaped structure to permit a key ring (key chain and the like) to be connected thereto. The distance between facing ends of the tabs is preselected to permit the ends to cooperate so that a user can leverably act on a bottle cap to open a capped bottle. One external corner of the C-shaped structure is preferred to be provided with a flat, beveled blade edge to serve as a screwdriver blade. It is further preferred for a portion of the interior walls to have a predetermined contour which servies to assist hooking of the C-shaped structure onto an object.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 1991Date of Patent: January 7, 1992Inventor: William K. Brubaker
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Patent number: 5070563Abstract: A device in the form of a ring for wearing on a finger bears a variety of implements including a magnetic pick-up for engaging ferromagnetic objects. It may include other tools such as screwdriver blades, line cutters, prying claws, glass cutters and the like for convenience in having certain useful tools at hand when needed without encumbering the hands of the user. The tools are arranged in a line along the circumference of the device. Also described is a set of magnets arranged in a particular configuration and polarity to unlock a magnetic lock.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1990Date of Patent: December 10, 1991Inventor: Pentti J. Tervola
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Patent number: 5051876Abstract: A compound hand tool which can be attached to or include a flashlight in order to provide a single tool which performs the combined functions of a flashlight, an electrical continuity tester, a light to illuminate the work, and either a screwdriver, an awl, a nutdriver, or a socket holder. The tool eliminates the need to carry a number of separate hand tools and makes it easier to hold the required tools while performing a task such as troubleshooting an electrical panel in the dark or changing fuses under the dashboard of an automobile.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1990Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Inventor: Keith Norman
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Patent number: 5038435Abstract: A tool adapted for use with a drill for installing screw anchors in concrete or masonry walls or the like having a sleeve type body, a bit holder slidably located in the body, a drill bit with a handle secured in the bit holder, a coil spring seated on a collar of the bit holder and extending around the bit, a nut driver secured to the front end of the body, a set screw to retain the drill bit in the bit holder and also to serve as a means to advance and retract the drill bit, and a cutout comprised of a longitudinal slot, a retainer notch and at least one depth notch. The longitudinal slot is adjoined by both the retainer notch and the depth notch through the use of curved sidewalls which allow the tool operator to use a smooth, uniform, and efficient motion to adjust extension of the drill bit.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1990Date of Patent: August 13, 1991Assignee: Diversified Fastening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Dan E. Crawford, Douglas A. Rogge
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Patent number: 5038644Abstract: A finger wrench or the like for threading and unthreading articles such as nuts or bolts has a pair of slidingly interfitted jaw members with respective finger openings and article gripping edges between the finger openings. In use, the gripping edges are opened out and fitted over an article to be manipulated so as to engage opposite surfaces of the article. Torque is applied through the finger openings. Increased leverage may thus be applied to the article compared with gripping it directly in the fingers, the increase in lever arm being represented by the distance from the respective gripping edges to the finger openings.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1987Date of Patent: August 13, 1991Inventor: Kurt Delsack
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Patent number: 5033552Abstract: A multi-function tool system (200) which includes a singular tool housing (1) containing an electric motor (10). A plurality of tool head housings (2, 2', 2", and 2'") contain respective reduction gears (20) having particular speed ratios to allow individual tool members to be driven in a rotative member at an optimal rotative speed. In this manner, a singular tool housing (1) may be used in conjunction with a plurality of tool members which rotate at differing speeds.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1990Date of Patent: July 23, 1991Inventor: Cheng-Te Hu
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Patent number: 5029354Abstract: A knife (20) having its member (21) comprising blade (22) and tang (23) locked to its side rails (24, 25) whichever way blade (22) or tang (23) seat in the knife (20). Side rails (24, 25) include opposing or non-corresponding edges (43, 44) which includes bayonet slots (41, 42) respectively. One pin (55) on blade (22) cooperatively engages bayonet slot (41) when the blade (22) is disposed in a pocket (40) between the side rails (24, 25), and one pin (54) on tang (23) cooperatively engages bayonet slot (42) when the tang (23) is disposed in pocket (40). Urging means (32) such as rubber bands (34, 35) urge the pins (55, 54) in their corresponding bayonet slots (41, 42) to stay therein and means such as rounds (63, 64) on side rails (24, 25) overcome such urging so that member (21) shifts into a pivoting position to unlock either blade (21) or tang (22) for pivoting either one out of pocket (40).Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 1990Date of Patent: July 9, 1991Assignee: F. Boyd, Ltd.Inventors: Francis M. Boyd, Jr., Frank M. Boyd, Sr.
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Patent number: 5030043Abstract: A driving-in device for fixing an anchor in a hole with an undercut and comprising a drill adapted to be received in a chuck of an impact drilling machine, and a drive-in sleeve-shaped member secured to the drill for joint rotation therewith. The drive-in sleeve-shaped member has at an end thereof remote from the end at which it is secured to the drill, a bolt portion that engages a threaded sleeve member of the anchor to screw it over a threaded portion of an expanding bolt to displace an expansible sleeve over an expander portion of the threaded bolt.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 1990Date of Patent: July 9, 1991Assignee: Fischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Artur Fischer, Gunter Seibold
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Patent number: 4967435Abstract: A bicycle tool kit which provides a small adjustable open end wrech with an elongated handle to which is affixed a chain link remover for repairing broken links of bicycle chains. The threaded shaft of the chain link remover is adapted for removably retaining a socket and two allen wrenches for adjustment of various hardware components of the bicycle. The jaws of the adjustable open end wrench are also adapted for adjusting the tension of the spokes of the bicycle wheels. The allen wrenches can be assembled onto the head of the adjustable open end wrench and the handle of the link remover in various positions to provide leverage for several repair applications of the device. Useful accessory tool heads are provided which can be gripped in the jaws of the adjustable open end wrench using the handle as a lever. The kit is compact and fits into a pocket sized carrying pouch.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1990Date of Patent: November 6, 1990Inventor: Robert L. Seals
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Patent number: 4954025Abstract: A tool adapted for use with a drill for installing screw anchors in concrete or masonry walls or the like having a sleeve type body, a bit holder slidably located in the body, a drill bit with a handle secured in the bit holder, a coil spring seated on a collar of the bit holder and extending around the bit, and a nut driver secured to the front end of the body. The bit holder is adapted to receive the bit handle and to also serve as a stabilizer for the bit and the coil spring. The nut driver is formed to guide the bit and to shield the front end of the bit from contact with drive members that may be secured in the nut driver.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 1990Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Diversified Fastening Systems, Inc.Inventors: Danny E. Crawford, Doug Rogge
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Patent number: 4930377Abstract: There is disclosed in the specification a tire repair device and kit for inserting plugging material typically in the form of rubber coated twisted strands into a tire puncture. The device and kit is provided with one or more interchangeable tools such as a strand inserting needle, an awl, a knife, and screwdriver, said tools being interchangeably joinable with the handle of said device. In operation the awl is first joined with said handle and used to enlarge the puncture, if necessary. The inserting needle tool is then joined to the handle. The plug material is threaded into the open eye of the needle and inserted into the puncture. The inserting motion is limited by a stop bushing captive on said needle tool so that the ends of the strands are not drawn into the puncture. The stop also limits the withdrawal of the needle.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 1989Date of Patent: June 5, 1990Inventor: Mark Lester
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Patent number: 4927284Abstract: A pen-like eyeglass cleaner includes a hollow pen body having a first end and a second end, a wiping tip of absorbent material disposed on the first end of the pen body, a detergent container mounted detachably in the pen body, an amount of detergent held in the container, a roll of cleaning cloth mounted detachably in the pen body, and a cap which is sized to firmly cover the first end of the pen body and has a clip secured thereto. A magnifying glass is mounted detachably on the second end of the pen body. A screwdriver is mounted detachably on the clip.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1989Date of Patent: May 22, 1990Inventor: Allan Tsai
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Patent number: 4905335Abstract: A device in the form of a ring for wearing on a finger, a bracelet for wearing on a wrist or a necklace for wearing on the neck bears a magnetic pick-up for engaging ferromagnetic objects. It may include other tools such as screwdriver blades, line cutters, prying claws and the like for convenience in having certain useful tools at hand when needed without encumbering the hands of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 1988Date of Patent: March 6, 1990Inventor: Pentti J. Tervola
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Patent number: 4866801Abstract: A sprinkler riser extractor tool in the form of a screw driver having a head sized to fit the slot of the flow control screw in the nozzle of a sprinkler head and having a sleeve slidably mounted on the shaft of said screw driver formed with a flange adjacent the proximal end of said sleeve to facilitate actuation by the thumb of the operator and having a bushing adjacent the distal end of said sleeve for expanding said distal end when said sleeve is slid forwardly to engage the inside of a sprinkler riser for facilitating lifting of said riser.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1988Date of Patent: September 19, 1989Inventor: John W. Lamar
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Patent number: 4865541Abstract: An ignition stone container which encloses ignition stones to be used in a cigarette lighter when an ignition stone in use is abraded and to be exchanged. A projection to rotate a locking screw threadedly attached to an ignition stone taking-in portion in the lighter is projected integrally with a container body. When an ignition stone contained in the lighter is abraded and firing failure occurs, top end portion of the projection being projected to the ignition stone container is touched to a screw head groove of the locking screw leading to an ignition stone enclosing portion in the lighter and then rotated, thereby the locking screw can be removed and the ignition stone can be exchanged. After the exchanging slao, the projection is touched to the screw head groove of the locking screw and rotated thereby the locking screw can be threadedly tightened.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1988Date of Patent: September 12, 1989Inventor: Tsuneharu Okada
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Patent number: 4852196Abstract: A combination drill and screwdriver device for use in forming holes in wallboard material or the like and for driving screws. A Phillips head screwdriver bit is modified for use in forming pilot holes for screw anchors and for a counterbore. A sleeve surrounding the bit provides a drill stop when drilling holes for screw anchors. The sleeve may be pushed through the pilot hole to position a counterbore used for forming larger holes.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1988Date of Patent: August 1, 1989Assignee: Honeywell Inc.Inventor: Ronald L. Martin
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Patent number: 4819289Abstract: A hand tool including a handle portion and a substantially flat blade having a plurality of curvilinear configurations spaced about the peripheral outline thereof for cooperatively engaging certain portions of a rifle to perform various operations thereon. The blade is attached at one end to the handle portion, preferably with a pivotal connection permitting opening and closing movement in the nature of a folding pocket knife. The blade includes a squared end serving as a screwdriver tip on the end opposite the pivotally mounted end, a convex curved portion between two linear portions on one longitudinal edge, and an outwardly projecting tip or pin adjoining a concave, curved portion on the other longitudinal edge serving as a spanner wrench. Each of these three portions of the blade is engageable with one or more portions of conventional rifles, and/or auxiliary equipment used therewith, to assist in adjustment, assembly, disassembly, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1988Date of Patent: April 11, 1989Assignee: Camillus Cutlery Co.Inventor: Philip W. Gibbs
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Patent number: 4818134Abstract: A cleaning pen for cleaning spectacle lenses includes a pen body, a cleaning tip, and a detergent reservoir contained in the pen body for automatically feeding the cleaning tip with detergent. A container which contains a cleaning cloth and at least one spectacle screwdriver therein is mounted removably on the pen body. A pen cap having a clip is sleeved removably on the pen body. The reservoir is designed so that the detergent is implemented therein. The container is designed so that the cleaning cloth and the spectacle screwdriver are removed conveniently therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1987Date of Patent: April 4, 1989Inventor: Allan Tsai
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Patent number: 4796319Abstract: A drill accessory kit for mounting screw-type fasteners is comprised of several drill bit holders and a screwdriving attachment. The bit holder engages a common twist drill bit in the chuck of a drill and allows one to drill a pilot hole to a desired depth in a workpiece with a cutting action which provides a proper-shaped hole for clean flush mounting or countersinking of a screw. Subsequently, the screwdriver attachment slips over the drill bit and engages with the bit holder, allowing a quick change from drilling to powerdriving of a screw.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1987Date of Patent: January 10, 1989Inventor: David Taft
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Patent number: 4791690Abstract: An assembly including a drill bit carried by a drill shaft and a detachable main socket for use in conjunction with an electric drill to permit combination power drilling and power socket driving functions. A crank provided with a secondary socket is engageable with the drill shaft to permit manual driving of the main socket.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 1987Date of Patent: December 20, 1988Inventor: Huang Kuang-Wu
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Patent number: 4774736Abstract: A tool kit has two parts which interfit together and are held together inside a generally flexible case, which is designed to be entrained on the belt of a skateboa9rder. One of the two parts defines three different-sized sockets for mounting and removing wheels and tightening the truck attachments to the main board, and the second part mounts an allen wrench and a pair of screwdriver heads, one being a Phillips and the other conventional. The screwdriver heads and allen wrench are used for tightening the rails and other miscellaneous fasteners that may occur on different types of skateboards.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1987Date of Patent: October 4, 1988Inventors: William H. Brawner, Walter H. Tiedge
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Patent number: 4768137Abstract: A screwdriver structure with illuminating function wherein a set of battery is disposed into the slot inside the grip handle, a bulb is disposed into the body slot inside the transparent receptacle, and a desired screwdriver is installed in the mouth on said receptacle, so that the bulb can be turned on and off through moving a sliding block in favor of illumination for installing or removing some screws.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1987Date of Patent: August 30, 1988Inventors: Hong L. Hwaw, Huo M. Chen, Tu C. Chen
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Patent number: 4765009Abstract: A multi-functional bar for a manual operated jack comprising a connecting section and a handle section; said connecting section made from a hard metallic pipe at one end formed in a shape adapted to fit in an operable portion of the jack and having another pipe end to connect to an end portion of said handle section; said handle section made from a solid metal having one end integrally formed with a screw-driver receivable in the pipe end of the connecting section and having another end integrally form with a socket mount; said socket mount having a center opening as that which can firmly receive a socket, said handle section received said socket as an independent socket wrench; said socket having a center recess of enclosure in a modified hexagonal configuration that the distance of one pair of opposite laterals of the enclosure is elongated, an insert in a direction along said distance variable in the enclosure so as to grip even a smallest regular hexagonal screw-nut or bolt-head firmly in the enclosure whType: GrantFiled: May 4, 1987Date of Patent: August 23, 1988Inventor: Michael Hung
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Patent number: 4669140Abstract: A folding pocket tool and knife of the type having paired handles pivotal to a blade for enclosing or extending the blade depending on pivoted position has an improved implement holding tool block that passes through an implement and co-acting with this, blade centerers on each handle hold the implement centrally between them. An economical liner-free aluminum handle embodiment has reinforcement and scarring-preventing spacers adapted for press-fit assembly. Clip-on attachment and other structure provide plier sections. A container provides advantageous "T"-handle facility for boring with the system, protrusive head pivotal fasteners facilitate scraping operation, and novel storage provisions are described.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1984Date of Patent: June 2, 1987Inventor: Philip V. Miceli
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Patent number: 4648145Abstract: A folding pocket tool and knife provides paired handles pivoted to swing around and be held together by a block in either the blade exposed or the folded position, doubly protrusive pivot pins at the handle free ends provide a choice of adjustable spanner wrenches; the knife blade has a tapered wrenching slot, one end-on and two offset screwdriver blades, and has also a hole for wire cutting in conjunction with jaw blades in the handles; toothed members exposed at cutouts in the handles act as jaws of nutcracker-type pliers; sockets in the free ends of the handle and in the block accept and retain standard size, standard shank punches, saws, screwdrivers, wrenches and the like; special blade and handle shapes and economy in blanking parts are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1983Date of Patent: March 10, 1987Inventor: Philip V. Miceli
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Patent number: 4635502Abstract: A ratchet system includes a "T" shaped stop-engaging member mounted in a plane perpendicular to a rotating spindle and parallel to a circular carrier member having stop members mounted on the periphrey and rotating with the spindle. The stem of the "T" member is rotatable mounted in a housing surrounding the spindle and upon selective rotation, the ends of the "T" member cross-bar engage the stop members to prevent rotation in a selected direction. The "T" cross-bar transmits the engagement force directly to a recess in the inner wall of the housing. A hand-actuated knob assembly located outside the housing is connected to the "T" member stem by a resilient bushing which provides a restoring force to return the "T" member to a stop engagement position following defection by stop members traveling in a direction counter to that intended to be prohibited.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1985Date of Patent: January 13, 1987Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventor: William A. George
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Patent number: 4617692Abstract: A tool is disclosed for both drilling a hole and thereafter securing a screw anchor therein in a quick and expeditious manner. The tool comprises a handle with a threaded stem extending therefrom. The threaded stem allows a screw anchor and a hard plastic drill tip to be threadably mounted thereon. The tool facilates the manual application of sufficient drilling pressure to the thus mounted drill tip so as to form the appropriately sized hole for the screw anchor.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1983Date of Patent: October 21, 1986Assignee: Emhart CorporationInventors: Michael E. Bond, Robert S. Noll
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Patent number: 4555822Abstract: A knife system with symmetrical "U"-section swing handles has a removable, integral accessory detachably force fitted to it to lock the handles together in blade-exposed or use-position, and to serve as a scraper, a pair of offset screwdrivers providing finger relief, and a grip improver. The force-fit may advantageously include three types of engagement between the lock and the handles for maximum security. The lock may be easily installed by tapping it with or against something; removal is difficult except by appropriately directed tapping.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1984Date of Patent: December 3, 1985Inventor: Philip V. Miceli
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Patent number: 4551875Abstract: A combination tool having a central shaft which may be rotated by a power tool. The shaft has a drill bit mounted in its front end so that rotation of the shaft causes rotation of the bit. The shaft is fitted in the bore of a sleeve or tube, the tube having a nut driver socket head at its front end. By advancing the tube on the shaft, complementary flats on the shaft and in the rear of the tube are mated to couple the shaft to the tube in a driving relation. The tube may be advanced to recess the drill bit within the tube to free the socket for use in a socket driving tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1980Date of Patent: November 12, 1985Assignee: International Telephone and Telegraph CorporationInventors: Stephen Getz, William Fouser
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Patent number: 4512693Abstract: A reversible drill and drive tool holder for use in performing a series of similar drill and drive operations. The tool holder consists of three major parts: a hollow cylindrical locking sleeve; an elongated shaft lying partially within the sleeve and having one end adapted to be held in the chuck of an electric drill and the other end forked; and a tool holding member rotatably pinned into the forked end of the shaft. The tool holding member has a socket at each end for holding a drill bit at one end and a driving tool at the other end. The shaft is held within the cylindrical sleeve by a spring-loaded pin and is capable of axial movement within the sleeve. When the shaft is moved forward against the spring, the tool holding member is freed to rotate about the pin in the front fork of the shaft, thus permitting either a drill bit or a driving tool to be moved into operating position.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1982Date of Patent: April 23, 1985Inventor: Carl A. Swanson
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Patent number: 4507817Abstract: A unique connector and insertion tool are disclosed. The connector is hollow with screw-type threads on its outer surface, an enlarged head at one end and a non-sharp configuration at the other end. The insertion tool has a non-sharp elongated shaft or piercer attached to a handle; the end of the piercer is adapted to allow piercing and passage through the materials being secured together. The connector slides over the piercing shaft, is held in secure non-rotating relation thereto, and is configured to penetrate the materials and be screwed into place by the insertion tool. The entire piercing and connection operation may be conducted in a twisting motion with just one hand.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1981Date of Patent: April 2, 1985Inventor: Stanley E. Staffeld
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Patent number: 4504993Abstract: A skier's accessory tool including a body in the general configuration of a ski boot having a rear, top, front and sole portion. A first recess is provided in the sole portion and Phillips-type screwdriver is pivotally mounted in the recess and received therein in a closed position. A second recess extends along the top and front of the boot. A second blade is pivotally received in this recess in the closed position. The second blade may be folded out and includes a U-shaped portion for engaging buckles. The outer end of the blade is configured as a flat screwdriver. A section of the blade may also form an ice scraping edge.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1983Date of Patent: March 19, 1985Inventor: Christopher L. Gamble
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Patent number: 4498669Abstract: A hand-held defense weapon provides a first and second pair of shafts which are connected together at a common pivot located at the central portion of each shaft. A pair of handles are respectively on one end of each shaft and a pair of blunt elements are mounted on the other end of each shaft opposite the handle. A third shaft is connected to the common pivot at one end of that shaft with the shaft carrying a blunt element at the other end. The three shafts are thus independently movable with respect to the pivot and with respect to each other so that the apparatus can be positioned between any selected fingers of a user's hands, the shafts collapsing with respect to each other for storage to a position where the shafts are generally aligned side by side. The blunt elements can be removable to expose tips which are "tooled" such as Phillips, or flat-head screwdrivers or the like. Preferably the blunt elements would be spherical members threadably attached to the ends of the shafts.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1983Date of Patent: February 12, 1985Inventor: Dai S. Chun
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Patent number: 4477936Abstract: There is disclosed a multipurpose bicycle tool which provides a wrench for adjustment of brakes, spokes and hardware attachments of a bicycle frame, a tire iron for dislodging a tire from the rim of a wheel, and a screwdriver. The bicycle tool includes an elongated handle member configured for employment as a tire iron, and a wrench oriented in a plane angularly offset from the plane of the handle. The tool also includes a pair of perpendicularly oriented screwdriving blades which extend from the wrench. In applications of the bicycle tool as a wrench for adjustment of hardware components of the bicycle, and as a spoke wrench, the angular offset arrangement of the handle member and wrench permit unobstructed movement of the handle member relative to the bicycle frame and spokes for continuous rotation.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 1983Date of Patent: October 23, 1984Inventor: Jerome L. Weston
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Patent number: 4467677Abstract: A combination tool includes at least two chuck keys, each chuck key being individually borne on the end of a tool shaft or arm. The combination tool can also include other tool instrumentalities such as screwdrivers. Preferably, the tool comprises a pair of perpendicular tool shafts, having four chuck keys of different sizes disposed one each on the four free ends of the two shafts.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 1983Date of Patent: August 28, 1984Inventor: Daniel W. Grifford
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Patent number: 4447923Abstract: A tool is disclosed for setting a screw anchor within a wall. The tool includes a plastic handle attached to a threadable member for engaging the screw anchor. The plastic handle is contoured for easy grasping and has a hole at one end to facilitate rotation of the tool. The handle preferably has a recessed screwdriver blade at the opposite end for tightening a screw in the set screw anchor.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1981Date of Patent: May 15, 1984Assignee: USM CorporationInventors: Michael E. Bond, Harry E. Taylor
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Patent number: 4333231Abstract: A wire release tool includes first and second working ends for releasing stripped conductors from electrical switches, wall outlets, lighting fixtures, receptacles and other electrical devices of the types which include a spring-biased detent tongue for engaging the stripped conductor. Electrical devices of this type generally include a socket for receiving the stripped conductor and an opening of either circular or rectangular shape to afford access to the detent tongue. The wire release tool includes a central metal core having first and second ends, a metal pin extending longitudinally from the first end and a metal blade extending longitudinally from the second end. The metal pin includes a working end of uniformly circular cross-section having a diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the circular access opening of such electrical devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1980Date of Patent: June 8, 1982Inventor: Homer E. Yeargin
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Patent number: 4327607Abstract: A gripping tool has first and second displaceably connected members having respective associated jaws. The jaw of the first member is dimensioned to engage under the peripheral lip of a tin lid such as is found on a tin of paint and for this purpose the jaw is preferably of thin flat strip-like form. The jaw associated with the second member is dimensioned so as to project beyond the end of the first member's jaw and downwardly so as to engage over the peripheral lip of the tin lid and down over an adjacent upstanding flange of the lid. The arrangement is such that when the handles are moved in a gripping action, the jaws clamp over the tin lid to permit the tin lid to be loosened for removal from the tin.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 1979Date of Patent: May 4, 1982Inventor: Albert E. Morris
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Patent number: 4325153Abstract: A combined screwdriver and boring apparatus comprising a tool having a handle, removable cutting and screwing blades, each of the blades having both downwardly tapered cutting edges thereon and an elongated tip adapted to enter a hole in the slotted head of a screw for both preforming a seat for the threaded shank of a screw, keying the screw to the blade for holding the screw to the blade when initiating screwing and flat surfaces engaging the slot in the screw for screwing the same.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1979Date of Patent: April 20, 1982Inventor: Charles Finnegan
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Patent number: 4229999Abstract: The valve adjustment tool includes an elongated barrel having a bore therethrough. The upper portion of the barrel is provided with a tool land and a length of external threads. The lower end of the barrel is provided with an integral collet which forms a nut socket. The collet is surrounded by a compression collar. An elongated internally threaded sleeve overlays the barrel. The sleeve abuts the compression collar. When the sleeve is threaded downwardly on the barrel, the collar compresses the collet. When the sleeve is threaded upwardly on the barrel, the collar is free to move and the collet assumes its uncompressed state. An elongated valve adjuster driver is also provided. The driver is provided with a large disc shaped knob at its upper end and an engagement lug at its lower end. The driver normally reposes within the through-bore of the barrel and is rotatable therein and removable therefrom. The top of the disc shaped knob provides a landing for the foot of a dial indicator.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1979Date of Patent: October 28, 1980Inventor: Joseph G. Rottigni
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Patent number: 4125913Abstract: An elongated cylindrical handle has a diametrical bore formed therethrough intermediate the ends thereof. A shower arm wrench body of hollow cylindrical configuration has an inner diameter equal to the diameter of the handle and an outer diameter greater than the diameter of the handle and is internally threaded and extends coaxially with a first end of the handle. A plurality of planar strips are equiangularly spaced from each other and taper downward to a second, opposite, end of the handle from an area spaced from the second end. The second end is insertable into a gas log lighter flange for tightening such flange. An axial bore formed in the handle from the second end accommodates the stem of a log lighter valve and has a plurality of equiangularly spaced grooves formed therein at the second end of the handle. A torque handle of shaft-like configuration is releasably accommodated in the diametrical bore of the handle for applying a torque thereto.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1977Date of Patent: November 21, 1978Inventor: Lawrence J. Lewis