Abstract: A wrench adapter assembly is provided that can adapt a conventional manual or power wrench to be used to grasp and rotate a smooth-surfaced cylindrical object. The wrench adapter assembly includes of a pivoting hook, a biasing means for the hook, a wrench adapter with a multisided flange for engaging the jaw of a wrench and a concave jaw. The pivoting hook is in circumferential alignment with the concave jaw so as to receive a smooth-surfaced cylindrical article. The flange shoulder has sides that match up with the sides of the jaw of the wrench. Once the wrench adapter assembly is secured within the wrench jaw, it may receive and hold a smooth-surfaced cylindrical article. The wrench adapter rotates with the jaw of the wrench. Thus, the wrench may be used in combination with the wrench adapter assembly to rotate smooth-surfaced cylindrical articles.

Abstract: An engine oil filter socket wrench with built-in spillage cup contains the oil that normally spills out when an oil filter is removed from an engine. The device consists of a smaller first cylinder for gripping an oil filter base and a larger second cylinder built concentrically around and above the smaller cylinder and forming a cup shaped reservoir capable of containing oil spillage. Protuberances projecting radially inward from the inside surface of the larger cylinder terminate in loose contact at the filter surface to provide alignment of the device about the filter and to provide a second means to grip the filter. The larger cylinder can be constricted of flexible material capable of being squeezed by hand to create a frictional grip on the oil filter body for the purpose of initially loosening the filter from its mount.

Abstract: A golf shoe spike tool used for installing or removing golf spikes made of polyurethane or similar material. The tool has a handle, a head and shaft between the head and handle. The head has a plurality of teeth with engage a spike. Through rotational force, the spike is installed or removed from a golf.

Abstract: An insertion tool for inserting a multi-strand twisted cable into a blind mine tunnel roof bore hole includes a drive mechanism on one end thereof for fitting into a conventional bolting machine, and a socket on the opposite end thereof for receiving therein the bare end of a multi-strand twisted cable. The insertion tool socket is formed in the reverse pattern of the circumferential configuration of a conventional seven-strand twisted steel cable, having six essentially semi-cylindrical elongate and parallel arcuate channels formed therein in a spiral identical to that of the outside surfaces of respective cable strands of the twisted cable. The insertion tool is used by inserting, with a slight twisting action in the direction of the cable strand spiral, the bare end of the multi-strand steel twisted cable into the insertion tool socket mechanism.

Abstract: An oil filter wrench for easily unscrew an oil filter from a vehicle or machinery includes a hollow wrench body which has a receiving opening provided at a top end thereof, an inner round base wall provided above a bottom end thereof, and a supporting base provided at the bottom end thereof, so as to define an interior chamber between the top end and the bottom end of the wrench body for receiving a lower portion of an oil filter therein through the receiving opening. The oil filter wrench further includes a locking device provided on the base wall for interlocking with a circular bottom edge of the oil filter when the oil filter wrench is turned in a unscrewing direction, a holding device mounted on the top end for gripping on a round body of the oil filter so as to ensure the oil filter wrench mounting on the oil filter, and a driving device integrally provided on the supporting base for driving the wrench body to rotate, in order to unlock and unscrew the oil filter by means of the locking device.

Abstract: A removal device adapted for the removal of difficult to remove threaded connecting devices threaded in a first direction. The device includes a body having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end includes an opening which extends toward the second end of the body. The opening is sized to receive a threaded connecting device threaded in a first direction and continuously tapers from a first diameter at the first end to a second diameter as it extends toward the second end, wherein the first diameter is larger than the second diameter. The opening further includes an internal surface threaded in direction opposite the threading of the threaded connecting device which must be removed.

Abstract: A tool is disclosed which is useful to install and remove bent decorative supply pipes such as are exposed between a water service pipe within a wall and a shower dead. The tool has a cylindrical head which is inserted in one end of the supply pipe, a hilt to stop the pipe at a predetermined length of insertion and an elongate handle to rotate the pipe to turn the threads of the supply pipe relative to the threads of the service pipe.

Abstract: A device for the removing of threaded fasteners with rounded off heads from nuts combinations thereof comprising a socket head having a partly cylindrical external configuration with an upper end and a lower end and an axis with a first axial length therebetween and with a surface on the upper end adapted to receive the end of a turning tool externally and internally. The lower end of the socket head is fabricated with a major recess of a generally frustroconical configuration with a second axial length. The major recess has an interior surface formed with a plurality of V-shaped projections integral with the socket and extending radially inwardly from the lower end with V-shaped valleys intermediate the V-shaped projections, thereby forming a plurality of triangles with radially interior teeth. Each of the triangles has an apex with two faces of essentially common lengths. The faces of each triangle are offset essentially equally from the radius of the cylinder.

Abstract: A tool for screwing medication vials (10) to IV-bags (28) comprises a socket (58) with a bowl-shaped hard shell (60) defining a mouth (86) with a resilient material insert (62) lining an interior surface thereof and being held therein by a removable retainer at a lip of the mouth. The lining material defines a cylindrically-shaped vial-receiving cavity (88) of a size for receiving a bottom-end portion (96) of a medication vial, with lining material engaging radially the received bottom-end portion for imparting movement thereto. The socket has an attachment device (66) positioned at an end of the socket opposite the mouth for attaching the socket to a rotary motor (54, 102) of a rotating tool.

Abstract: A tool for the installation and removal of an elongated member such as a spark plug, with threads extending from an end through at least a part of the length of the member, takes the form of a tube, open at both ends, made of stiffly resilient expansible material, and a liner in the tube, fixed against movement relative to the tube. The liner is made of a compressible resilient material and has an axially extending passage, opening at both ends of the tube. The passage is defined by a cylindrical wall of the compressibly resilient material and is of a transverse cross-sectional size to permit insertion of the elongated member against the compressive bias of the liner, but to grip the elongated member when it is inserted to inhibit relative rotary motion of the elongated member and tube. The material of which the tube is made is sufficiently resilient to expand when the elongated member is forced into the liner passage, but stiff enough to maintain the passage substantially straight.

Abstract: An adjustable wrench assembly for installing and removing a threaded cap member of an hydraulic cylinder assembly includes a head member adapted to partially surround the piston rod of the cylinder assembly. A cover plate attaches to the head member to completely surround the piston rod. A plurality of adjustable contact pins accommodate various sizes of piston rods and are engagable with the piston rod to keep the wrench square and prevent it from twisting. Various sizes of adapter plates are connectable to the head member and include a plurality of engagable pins to engage mating slots or holes in the cap member. The adjustable contact pins include non-metallic plastic contact portions to prevent marring of the piston rod.

Abstract: An oil filter canister gripping tool (9) is hereby disclosed to assist in the removal and installation of an oil filter (10) on an automobile engine or similar engine and is composed of a relatively flexible strip of U-shaped material (1) having a metal band (2) attached perpendicularly thereto and located near the open ends of the arms of the U-shaped material (1) with said metal band (2) having an adjusting mechanism (4) associated therewith for tightening the band (2) securely around various size oil filter canisters (10). The U-shaped metal strip (2) having a hand-grasping area (8) located between the two arms of the U-shaped metal strip (1) enabling an individual to physically grip said hand grasping area (8) of the wrench (9) and thus permitting the rotational installation and removal of an oil filter canister (10) by means of wrist action.

Abstract: A hand tool is provided having opposing jaws with teeth and depressions mounted on one of said jaws to enable torque to be applied to a variety of sizes of fasteners. A wedge portion and a hexagonal hole portion of the tool provide added functions of a screw driver and pry bar and grip for a hexagonal socket.

Abstract: A tool for rotating a conventional, medication bottle that is to coupled to a IV infusion bag. The tool has a main housing defining a hollow, frustro-conical shaped interior in which is mounted a flexible, high-friction, bottle-contacting member which surrounds and contacts a portion of the bottle, and a top cover/handle-member that retains the bottle-contacting member is place and also serves as a handle-element by which the tool may be rotated for screwing the bottle into the infusion bag. The top cover/handle-member may be rotated manually, or may be power-driven.

Abstract: A system for fastening at least a pair of plies of fabric together utilizing a helical member having body portion of a certain pitch. The helical member also includes a sharpened tip and an end portion with a loop which lies in a plane which intersects the helical path of the helical member. A tool constructed with a gripping portion and a hollow portion connected to the same is employed to turn the helical member through the adjacent plies of fabric. The hollow portion is provided with a helical surface which is intended to contact the helical member. The pitch of the helical surface of the hollow member is opposite to that of the helical member.

Abstract: A device for manipulating a connector which has an open-ended socket portion that receives a connector. The socket portion has a slot extending along its side for receiving a lead extending from the connector. Tabs limit the extent that a connector may move into the socket portion. A circumferential cut-out in the socket portion accommodates movement therethrough of selected latch edges of a grab member. An elongate shaft joined to the grab member extends away from the socket portion and provides a handle.

Abstract: A screw holding device of elastic material is provided having a tube-shaped top end and a dome-shaped bottom end for fitting securely over the head of a screw or bolt to insure the availability of the screw or bolt by its being held securely in the dome end's interior multiple gripping means which are easily releasable when the screw or bolt is seated.

Abstract: A tool used for applying specified torque to the backshells of electrical connectors has a cylindrical body of diameter compatible with that of the backshell on which it is used with a cutout on said cylindrical body to allow wires from the connector to be routed away from the tool. A high friction material such as silicone rubber or similar type substance is bonded to the inner lower lip of the tool, below the cutout section, and a clamping means with separable closure and adjustable friction producing strap is bonded to the outer lower lip of the tool across its rear surface and over the front of said cutout. A fitting at the top of the tool is located on the tool's axis and is designed to accept conventional socket torque wrenches.

Abstract: A plumbing tool having a ring with a circular structure defining an opening that extends through the circular structure. The circular structure is formed with a slot, and a pair of threaded apertures are disposed on opposite sides of the opening in order to communicate with the same. Each of the threaded apertures terminate in a recess disposed within the circular structure and communicating with the respective threaded aperture. A bolt threadably passes through the pair of threaded apertures for winding and narrowing the opening. A second pair of threaded apertures extend through the circular structure in a generally opposed relationship for threadably receiving a pair of handles.

Abstract: A chuck for use in screwing one threaded member into another threaded member has a housing with a polygonal socket on one end for receiving a polygonal drive head of a wrench. The housing has a conical bore converging from the face toward the socket. A plurality of retainers are releasably mounted in the bore in a circular array. Each retainer has edges on opposite sides that are spaced apart from the edges of the adjacent retainers to define a receptacle between each of the retainers. A plurality of blades are releasably inserted into the receptacles. Each blade has a gripping edge that protrudes inward from the receptacle, defining with the gripping edges of the other blades a conical space that converges toward the socket for gripping one of the threaded members.

Abstract: A tool for use when changing the oil filter of an engine and refilling or putting oil into the engine. The tool is generally funnel shaped, having an internal surface which frictionally engages the oil filter after its seal has been broken. The tool has an extended portion of a greater diameter than the filter to catch any oil which escapes as the filter is removed. The escaping oil is channeled to the outlet portion of the funnel, to which a plastic tubing may be positioned to remove the escaping oil. The tool may then be used as a funnel to fill the engine and complete the oil changing process.

Abstract: A two-piece kit facilitating the removal of a damaged wheel lug stud from a wheel hub or the like includes a ribbed nut having a splined through-aperture extending between the faces of the nut and drive-on tool defining an axially-extending recess in one of its ends for loosely accepting the nut when the nut is placed endwise within the tool recess. The through-aperture of the nut defines a plurality of radially inwardly-projecting edges extending axially along the nut and is of such size to grip the cylindrical periphery of the lug stud and thereby prevent relative rotation between the stud and the nut body when the nut is operatively driven upon the stud so that the through-aperture encircles the cylindrical periphery of the stud.

Abstract: A tool that permits assembly and disassembly of a variety of cannon plugs without the risk of plug damage commonly caused by pliers and other conventional assembly equipment. It comprises a multiplicity of differently sized Cannon plug holding members mounted on a wrench type fixture. A key and keyway arrangement prevents the plugs from turning while backshell and saddle clamps are attached or removed.

Abstract: A tool for setting nails or like linear fasteners in hard wood, concrete or other hard surfaces. The tool is usable in conjunction with a power implement having a rotary working portion, such as an electric drill, and is adapted to be secured in the rotary portion of the power implement for rotation therewith. The tool includes a first means to grip the nail head to effect rotation of the nail with the tool. The first means can include a novel wrench according to the invention. A second means engages the nail shank to axially align the nail with the axis of rotation of the working portion of the power implement. Manual pressure exerted through the power implement advances the rotating nail into the surface.

Abstract: A tool for removing a drill chuck from the threaded shaft of a drill motor is described which comprises a tubular segment sized for snugly receiving the drill chuck and including a threaded hole defined through the wall thereof for receiving a set screw for engaging the drill chuck for securing the tubular segment thereto, and a pair of lugs, a rod or other gripping surface welded to or defined on the outer surface of the tubular segment on which the segment may be impacted in a rotary direction for threadably removing the chuck from the drill motor shaft.