Abstract: A tool for rotatably driving a fastening member includes a hollow tubular shank closed at one end by a handle fixed thereto and having coupled to the other end thereof in communication therewith a socket for receiving an associated rotatable fastening member. A helical compression spring is disposed coaxially within the shank, having the inner end thereof embedded in a body of adhesive material and having the outer end thereof fixed to the keeper of a magnet disposed for magnetic engagement with a fastening member received in the socket. In assembly, the adhesive material is inserted in the shank in a fluid state, the inner end of the spring is immersed in the fluid, and the adhesive is then cured to a solid state.

Abstract: A molded elastomeric sleeve is carried on a conventional wrench socket. The sleeve has a radially extending boss, a recess formed in the boss and a peripheral rim formed about the boss defining the recess therein. The sleeve has an internal annular groove formed therein as well as a radial passageway which extends from the groove to the recess. Adhesive is injected into the annular groove via the radial passageway, whereby the sleeve is secured to the socket. A size indicia label is provided having adhesive thereon. This label is positioned in the recess below the rim of the boss covering the radial passageway, where it is secured by the adhesive. The sleeve further has suitable knurls formed on the outer diameter of the sleeve. The knurls and the boss prevent the socket from rolling, if placed sideways on a flat surface. The knurls and the boss also facilitate manual rotation of the socket. After forming, the sleeve is axially oriented and slidably positioned on a portion of the socket.

Abstract: A unidirectional drive tool cartridge for use as a torque transmitting device which includes a housing within which is mounted a unidirectional continuous clutch and drive shaft assembly. The drive shaft is carried within a bearing member located within a clutch. The bearing member has a central opening configured to receive a shoulder portion of the drive shaft so that the drive shaft may be slidably moved along an axis of its rotation within the bearing element and may be rotatably drive by the bearing element around the axis of rotation. Front and back faces of the housing are provided to constrain the longitudinal movement of the drive shaft therein. By virtue of the operation of the unidirectional clutch, the drive shaft may be driven in one direction on rotation of the head and is not driven in an opposite rotation of the head. The drive shaft is selectively movable within the housing to extend from either rotational direction, depending upon the direction of extension of the drive shaft therefrom.

Abstract: An adjustable flat wrench having a main body section, a handle and a fixed jaw formed therewith, and a movable jaw which is opened and closed in response to rotation of an adjustment sleeve incorporates a pin having reduced diameter shear sections, so that the pin may easily be sheared out of the wrench, and the adjustment sleeve and movable jaw easily removed for repair or replacement as required. The pin is pressed into the wrench body portion, and that section of the pin which retains the pin in position and which remains following shear and removal of the sheared sections of the pin and adjustment sleeve may be easily removed with a hammer and punch in order that a new pin may be installed in the repaired wrench.

Abstract: The disclosed method features an automatic high production cold working process of forming socket wrenches from coiled alloy steel wire stock. The wire is cut to length, its ends are squared to form a workpiece blank which is then located in a die station and a recess of circular cross-section is cold formed at one end of the workpiece by impacting a round punch into the workpiece which thereafter is transferred to and inserted into a downstream die in a longitudinally reversed orientation whereupon a second punch forms a square socket on an end of the workpiece opposite the end wherein the circular recess is formed. Additional steps of the process include extruding an end of the workpiece surrounding the circular recess to reduce its outside diameter, broaching a hex socket into the necked-down end of the workpiece and piercing an axial through-hole between sockets at opposite ends of the workpiece.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing hand wrenches having a relatively long handle attached at one end to a yoke pivotally carrying the housing of a ratcheting socket drive mechanism fabricates the yoke, instead of casting or forging it, and employs a separate ferrule at the joint between the handle and the yoke, the parts being held in assembled relation and rotated while during a two step operation weld metal is deposited between the ferrule and the yoke, the legs of the yoke at the same time being compressed upon the ratchet housing.

Abstract: An improvement in a manual tool having an end, a work engaging tip at the end, a handle spaced from the end and an elongated terminal portion extending from the work engaging tip wherein the elongated terminal portion has a peripheral surface also extending from the work engaging tip. The improvement comprises the application of a layer of light reflective material on the peripheral surface and adjacent the tip whereby light will be reflected into the actual work area which may in some instances be dark.

Abstract: Apparatus for the automatic manufacture of drop forgings, particularly wrhes, from split-off and stamped workpieces comprises prebending means having a stationary bending jaw and a bending jaw which is movable in a horizontal plane, transfer means, and a power hammer which is disposed below the prebending means and has forging dies which are oppositely movable in a horizontal plane.

Abstract: An improved ratchet wrench is provided which includes an elongated handle, a circular head portion connected to the handle, a socket formed in the head portion, and a ratchet mechanism mounted within the socket. To provide increased strength characteristics, an internal core member, formed of steel, extends lengthwise within the handle and around the head portion. To provide improved insulating characteristics, an external housing, formed of rigid plastic material, completely encloses and insulates the internal steel core member.

Abstract: An improved high strength wrench is stamped from a strip of a heat hardenable and relatively strong metal, such as stainless steel. The wrench is of the open-end type and has jaws with operating surfaces which, due to the hardness of the metal from which the wrench is stamped, maintain their original configuration even after the wrench has been utilized for an extended period of time. To promote the accurate formation of the operating surfaces of the jaws of the wrench, they are initially formed to a size which approximates their final size and configuration. The operating surfaces are then accurately trimmed to their final size and configuration by a shaving operation. During this shaving operation, a section of metal extending between the outer ends of the jaws of the wrench holds the jaws of the wrench against movement relative to each other.

Abstract: A pivoted jaw pipe wrench having a three-arm lever which translates the swinging motion of the wrench handle to one of the two jaws for pipe-engaging purposes and is characterized by the fact that it is in the form of a laminated structure, thereby allowing it to be made thinner than the three-arm levers of previously designed similar wrenches but without sacrificing strength and consequent resistance to rupture. The space which is saved by the relative thinness of the three-arm lever allows a lever-reinforcing shroud on the wrench body to lie alongside of the lever for reinforcing purposes, the movable lever and its associated fixed shroud presenting a lever arrangement which substantially equals the transverse width of conventional one-piece cast three-arm levers for the same purpose.

Abstract: A drive socket with front and rear end portions defining front and rear ends, an elongate, forwardly opening polygonal work receiving socket and an elongate, rearwardly opening polygonal drive tool receiving opening, said drive socket defined by a multiplicity of flat radially extending sheet metal laminates in intimate juxtaposition and having registering openings in radial and circumferential spaced relationship about the axis of the drive socket, elongate tie members engaged through the registering openings with ends in stopped engagement with the front and rear ends of the drive socket, the laminates having central openings corresonding in configuration with the cross-section of the work receiving socket and drive tool receiving opening in their related portions of the drive socket.