Abstract: A hex tool including a hex head having a hex portion for engaging socket head cap screws or wrenches. The hex portion also having a body portion extending from the hex portion. The body portion having a cavity disposed therein. The hex tool also includes a handle with an end and a primary handle portion. The end disposed in the cavity to provide the hex tool a significant range of motion during use. Another type of hex tool having a hex head having a hex cavity for engaging a hex head bolt. The hex head also having a body portion extending from the hex cavity. The body portion having a cavity disposed therein. The hex tool also including a handle with an end and a primary handle portion. The ball end disposed in the cavity to provide the hex tool a significant range of motion during use.

Abstract: An anti-slip torque tool with integrated engagement features includes a torque-tool body and a plurality of engagement features. The plurality of engagement features is radially distributed around a rotational axis of the torque-tool body. Each of the plurality of engagement features includes a first cavity surface, a first bracing surface, a second bracing surface, and a second cavity surface. The first bracing surface and the second bracing surface are adjacently connected to each other through an intersection point. The first cavity surface is terminally connected to the first bracing surface through a first connection point as the first bracing surface is positioned in between the second bracing surface and the first cavity surface. The second cavity surface is terminally connected to the second bracing surface through a second connection point as the second bracing surface is positioned in between the first bracing surface and the second cavity surface.

Abstract: A socket structure includes a socket body, an O-ring, and a carbon-fiber tube. The socket body includes a driving section and an acting section coaxially connected to the driving section. The driving section has an outside diameter greater than an outside diameter of the acting section and a stepped portion is formed in outer circumference between the driving section and the acting section. The driving section and the acting section have end faces that are recessed inwardly to form a driving hole and an acting hole, respectively. The outer circumferential surface of the acting section is formed with a circumferential groove in which the O-ring is received. The carbon-fiber tube is fit over the outer circumferential surface of the acting section of the socket body and has an end in abutting engagement with the stepped portion and an internal circumferential surface in contact with the O-ring.

Abstract: A reaction washer is optimized for lock-on, optional stiction ring and for a predetermined indentation depth of bidirectional serrations for secure reaction torque transfer during initial and full actuation of respective nut or bolt heads resting on it. An optional lock-on ring embedded around the reaction socket is ergonomically actuated to latch on and off underneath the reaction washer. Axial offset of the peak stress areas away from the actuation socket edges provides for reduced actuation socket diameter and consequently for the entire tool and system remaining substantially within radial assembly limits established for prior art actuation sockets alone. A coupling unit is attached to and tightened on a power torque wrench via a clamp tool utilizing the power wrench's own torque. A hand hold groove and a lock able snap release button offset from the coupling castle snap connection contribute to safe and ergonomic operation and system peak performance.

Abstract: To provide a manual tool excellent in workability and operability and capable of precise tightening torque management, a manual tool includes a grip including a bit holding part that detachably holds a bit, and a torque sensor that is of a magnetostrictive type, and includes a detecting part that is penetrated by the bit held by the bit holding part and surrounds an outer periphery of the bit, the torque sensor is capable of contactlessly detecting a torque acting on the bit, and is detachably provided to the grip. The torque sensor can be configured to be formed so as to be mountable to the grip with the bit mounted to the bit holding part of the grip.

Abstract: A hand tool includes a body provided with a mounting portion. The mounting portion includes six first recessed portions, six second recessed portions, and six locking faces. Each of the first recessed portions includes two grooves. Each of the second recessed portions includes two first arcuate faces and a second arcuate face. Each of the locking faces has a planar shape and is arranged between two of the second recessed portions. Each of the first recessed portions is arranged on one of the locking faces. The locking faces define an imaginary hexagonal portion having six sides coinciding with the locking faces respectively. The mounting portion of the body is mounted on a screw member. The screw member has six ribs received in the second recessed portions. Each of the ribs rests on one of the first arcuate faces.

Abstract: A ratchet wrench includes a body and a ratchet wheel. The body has a head and a handle connected to the head. The ratchet wheel is rotatably disposed in the head and has a first diameter portion, a second diameter portion connected to the first diameter portion, and a driving portion adapted to connect an object. The first diameter portion defines a first diameter in a radial direction of the ratchet wheel, and the second diameter portion defines a second diameter less than or equal to the first diameter in the radial direction of the ratchet wheel.

Abstract: A socket includes two opposite ends and an axis extending between the ends. The socket further includes a small-diameter section in the vicinity of the first end, a large-diameter section in the vicinity of the second end, and a polygonal section between the small-diameter section and the large-diameter section. A circular bore extends in the small-diameter section along the axis. A non-circular bore extends in the polygonal section and the large-diameter section along the axis. Thus, an entire length of the socket and a length of the large-diameter section measured along the axis are rendered relatively small without reducing a depth of the non-circular bore.

Abstract: An anti-slip torque tool that utilizes a plurality of grooves to prevent slippage and facilitate torque transfer to a fastener. The tool includes a wrench torque-tool body and an at least one engagement element. The wrench torque-tool body includes a plurality of internal sidewalls, a first base, and a second base. Further, each of the internal sidewalls includes a bracing surface. The engagement element includes a first pair of grooves and a second pair of grooves, wherein each further includes a primary cavity and a secondary cavity. The engagement element is laterally integrated into a specific sidewall to provide additional gripping action. The first pair of grooves and the second pair of grooves are positioned offset from each other, along the bracing surface of the specific sidewall. The primary cavity and the secondary cavity each traverse normal and into the bracing surface from the first base to the second base.

Abstract: A hand tool includes a body which is a cylindrical body and has a hexagonal mounting portion defined in one end thereof. The mounting portion includes six side faces, and each side face includes a function portion which is connected between two contact faces. Six curved recess are defined alternatively between the side faces. Each function portion includes two consecutive V-shaped recesses. The first length is defined between two respective outer ends of the two contact faces of each side face. The mounting hole is defined by an imaginary hexagonal column which includes an axis and six sides. Each side of the imaginary hexagonal column is located corresponding to each contact face. The length of each side is defined as the third length. The first length is 0.5 to 0.65 of the third length.

Abstract: A fastener head adapter includes a drive portion that can be engaged by a suitable driver, and a mating portion that is configured to mate with a fastener head. The fastener head adapter is attached to a fastener head. The fastener head adapter preferably provides a different type of drive portion than exists on the fastener head. Once the fastener head adapter is attached to the fastener head, the screw may then be turned by using the driver to engage the drive portion of the fastener head adapter and to turn the fastener head adapter, which in turn, turns the screw.

Abstract: A collapsible torque wrench includes: a shank having a drive head at a front end and two pivoted ends at a rear end; a connection rod, a front end of which being pivotally connected with the first pivoted end; a housing having a tubular body and a casing fixedly disposed on one side of the tubular body, the connection rod being relatively slidably fitted in the tubular body; a torque adjustment mechanism being mounted in the tubular body and including a fixing block, the fixing block being mounted in the tubular body by a plurality of pins; and a stop member received in the casing. A front end of the stop member is pivotally connected with the second pivoted end. The fixing block is easily demounted from the tubular body for replacement.

Abstract: A torque wrench includes a driving shank having two pivot bases, an anchor pivotally attached to one of the pivot bases and having channel formed in the anchor, a connection rod pivotally attached to the other pivot base, a housing engaged onto the connection rod, a casing disposed on the housing, a peg secured to the casing and slidably engaged in the channel of the anchor, a retainer member engaged into the casing and having a protrusion engaged into the housing, and a positioning element is engaged into the housing and engaged with the protrusion of the retainer member and for positioning the positioning element to the housing.

Abstract: A wrench with quickly angularly adjustable handle includes ahead section and a handle. The head section and the handle are pivotally connected with each other via a first and a second pivoted ends, whereby the handle can be up and down swung relative to the head section. The first and second pivoted ends respectively have a first and a second end faces facing each other. The first end face is formed with an upper and a lower contact sections. The second end face is formed with an upper and a lower abutment sections. The lower abutment section abuts against the lower contact section as a lower dead end of angular displacement of the handle. The upper abutment section abuts against the upper contact section as an upper dead end of angular displacement of the handle.

Abstract: A socket wrench contains: a body including a first face, a second face, and an accommodating cavity having a stop ring arranged on the first face. A ratchet holder is accommodated in the accommodating cavity and has a polygonal groove, a first peripheral segment, a second peripheral segment, and a toothed portion. The first peripheral segment is inserted through the stop ring, the toothed portion engages with a ratchet driving device beside the accommodating cavity, and the second peripheral segment is inserted into the second face and has an elastic element fitted thereon. A clamping device includes a guiding portion having a small-diameter contacting section and a large-diameter retracting section. The small-diameter contacting section is located adjacent to the first face, and the first peripheral segment has at least one locking member moving in the polygonal groove along the small-diameter contacting section and the large-diameter retracting section.

Abstract: A sleeve may include a hexagonal engaging hole at one end that engages with the screw nut and a coupling hole at the other end that engages with a wrench; wherein the engaging hole is inwardly tapered and the taper angle is two to four degrees, thereby enabling easy engagement of the engaging hole with screw nut; and there is a dodge groove formed at each corner of the hexagonal engaging hole and each pair of adjacent dodge grooves are separated with a driving block; and the surface of each driving block that touches the screw nut is concave and thus a driving corner is formed on each side of the driving block; and each driving block has a groove and thus two adjacent interior corners are formed at the bottom of the groove.

Abstract: A collapsible torque wrench includes: a shank having a drive head at a front end and two pivoted ends at a rear end; a connection rod, a front end of which being pivotally connected with the first pivoted end; a housing having a tubular body and a casing fixedly disposed on one side of the tubular body, the connection rod being relatively slidably fitted in the tubular body; a torque adjustment mechanism being mounted in the tubular body and including a fixing block, the fixing block being mounted in the tubular body by at least two pins; and a stop member received in the casing. A front end of the stop member is pivotally connected with the second pivoted end. The fixing block is easily demounted from the tubular body for replacement.

Abstract: A drive tool device includes a drive handle member having three barrels attached to the end portions and the middle portion, the two end barrels each include a non-circular engaging opening communicating with the bore of the handle member, and the drive handle member include one or more non-circular engaging orifices formed in either of the barrels, and a driving shank element includes a non-circular cross section for engaging with the non-circular engaging orifices of the drive handle member and for allowing the drive handle member to be driven by the driving shank element selectively and for allowing the driving shank element to be driven by the drive handle member selectively.

Abstract: A socket is adapted for being disposed in a sleeve hole of a wrench wherein the sleeve hole has a positioning element disposed on an inner wall of the sleeve hole. The socket includes a main body having a driving portion and a connecting portion at two ends. The connecting portion has a polygonal external surface including plural driven faces arranged around an axial direction. A shared edge is formed between every two adjacent driven faces, and at least one shared edge is formed with a notch for receiving the positioning element. The notch has a triangle cross-section and has a steeper first bottom face and a second bottom face which is more remote from the driving portion than the first bottom face. Thus, the socket can be prevented from moving forward and is easier to remove.

Abstract: The disclosure provides devices and methods for magnetizing or demagnetizing a bit inserted in a bit holder without removing the bit from the bit holder. The disclosure also provides devices and methods for magnetizing or demagnetizing a socket of a driver so that a fastener can be properly seated within the socket. More particularly, the invention includes a bit holder or driver with a cavity containing a magnet. The magnet may be attached to a switch, which allows the magnet to be manually moved within the cavity to an “on” or an “off” position. The bit or driver may be magnetized when the magnet is in the “on” position and demagnetized when the magnet is in the “off” position.

Abstract: A fastener for securing a wheel rim to a wheel hub having a screw connecting element, includes a fastener body and a rotatable upper stage lock element. The fastener body is configured to be screwed to the screw connecting element of the wheel hub and includes a coupling section and a flange section located at one end of the coupling section. The flange section includes an outer circumferential surface and a first positioning portion formed at the outer circumferential surface. The rotatable upper stage lock element includes a peripheral wall configured to rotatably mount on the flange section of the fastener body. A plurality of annularly spaced first and second grooves are formed in the coupling section and in an outer peripheral surface of the peripheral wall, respectively, so that a plurality of the first and second grooves can be aligned to define a key receiving surface by rotating the rotatable upper stage lock element. The design has good anti-theft effects.

Abstract: A socket includes a body and a sleeve. The body is made of metal and includes first and second coupling ends for respectively coupling with a fastener and a driving tool. The first coupling end includes an outer periphery having a first protruded section, a second protruded section, and an engagement section extending between the first and second protruded sections. The sleeve is made of metal having a hardness greater than a hardness of the body. The sleeve includes an inner periphery extending between first and second end faces of the sleeve. The inner periphery of the sleeve includes an engagement portion engaged with the engagement section of the body, with the sleeve not contacting the first and second protruded sections.

Abstract: A socket includes a body and a reinforcing sleeve. The body includes first and second coupling ends for respectively coupling with a fastener and a driving tool. The first coupling end includes a conical section having a small diameter end and a large diameter end. A spacing between the small diameter end and the second coupling end along the longitudinal axis is smaller than a spacing between the large diameter end and the second coupling end along the longitudinal axis. The conical section has increasing diameters perpendicular to the longitudinal axis away from the second coupling end. The reinforcing sleeve is mounted around the conical section of the body to reinforce the socket.

Abstract: A socket set which includes a first socket, a second socket and a combination mechanism is provided. The first socket and the second socket can be combined together. The combination mechanism can retain the first socket and the second socket in a corresponding position, such that the first socket and the second socket are in a cooperative-motion relationship.

Abstract: A tool for torquing a regulator onto a cylinder of a portable cylinder assembly. The tool includes a nut and a socket. The nut is configured to fit around a body of a regulator of a portable cylinder assembly. As such, the nut has a first set of grooves that avoids one or more valve assemblies on the body of the regulator. The socket has a cavity extending therethrough such that the cavity consists of three sections: a top section, a middle section and a bottom section. The top section of the socket is configured to be coupled to a device that applies a torque force on the socket. The middle section of the socket is configured to avoid a case of the regulator which is disposed above the body of the regulator. The bottom section of the socket is configured to be coupled to the nut.

Abstract: An improved, high-efficiency wheel lug nut socket is provided for use in racing pits, in order to minimize the time required for race car wheel changeovers. The socket is designed with an inner operating surface including concave surfaces and intervening apex surfaces, dimensioned so as to permit a hexagonal lug nut to be received therein with full clearance between the inner operating surface and the lug nut outer surface. The socket is normally used with a conventional high-speed pneumatic automotive wrench.

Abstract: An improved socket having a drive end opening being so dimensioned for receiving a drive anvil, the opening comprising a plurality of bounding surfaces parallel to a central axis and being disposed in diametrically opposed pairs about the axis, where the diametrically opposed pairs of bounding surfaces include: at least two pairs of flat side surfaces being parallel to each other about the central axis; at least two pairs of curved recess surfaces forming respective inner corners of the drive end opening; and adjacent pairs of outwardly diverging transition surfaces transitioning between respectively adjacent pairs of the flat side surfaces and the curved recess surfaces. The improved socket increases corner radius for minimizing stress concentration at the corners and provides outwardly diverging transition surfaces for relocating the areas of maximum stress away from the corners.

Abstract: The present invention is related to a multi-functional wrench socket comprising a socket main body; an inner wall defined in an internal of said socket main body and having a rectangular form; and an outer wall defined on a surface of said socket main body and having a polygonal form. By providing an inner rectangular form and an outer polygonal form on the wrench socket, the wrench socket can be adapted onto any type of hand tools or pneumatic driven tools with ease such that the operation thereof is facilitated. In addition, the wrench socket of the present invention can be operated on its own without cooperation of wrenches but with user hands only. Therefore, the wrench socket of the present invention is applicable to various fields of uses with great convenience and enhanced technical effects.

Abstract: A tool including a bit including a detent portion in the form of a detent ball and a bias member adapted to provide a biasing force to the detent ball in an outward direction. The detent ball is adapted to engage a receiving portion in a socket to securely couple the bit to the socket. The biasing force may be sufficient to prevent the bit from being accidentally removed from coupling to the socket by hand after assembly. In one aspect, the bit may be removed from the socket upon application of an axial force of about 40 pounds or greater.

Abstract: A tool adapted to be used with a filter cap having an engagement structure includes a body having an upper end and a side wall extending from the upper end and terminating in a lower open end. The side wall is formed with a plurality of notches extending upwardly from the lower open end and adapted to receive the engagement structure of the filter cap. The notches define a set of spaced apart engaging members which form a driven head receiving structure adapted to matingly and non-rotatably receive the engagement structure of the filter cap. The body is engagably disposed over the engagement structure, and the body together with the filter cap is rotated in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction.

Abstract: A socket for a turn-of-nut torque application includes at least one visual indicator for indicating a turn-of-nut position. In a preferred embodiment, a visual indicator is precisely machined into the exterior surface of the elongated body portion of the socket. The visual indicator may correspond with an interior corner of the nut end recess. Several visual indicators may be provided, and each visual indicator may correspond with a different interior corner of the nut end recess. The visual indicator may further comprise a permanent paint, and each additional visual indicator may comprise a different colored permanent paint.

Abstract: A socket wrench includes a handle and an actuating head connected with the handle. The handle has a first end provided with a mounting portion and a second end provided with a grip. The mounting portion of the handle has an inner wall provided with a pivot hole pivotally mounted on the actuating head and has an outer wall provided with a first driving arm and a second driving arm. The actuating head has an upper end provided with an extension which has a distal end provided with an elongate guide slot. Each of the first driving arm and the second driving arm of the handle is slidably mounted in the guide slot of the actuating head. The actuating head has a lower end inserted into a socket which is mounted on one bolt of a wheel.

Abstract: A socket includes a body and a reinforcing sleeve. The body includes first and second coupling ends for respectively coupling with a fastener and a driving tool. The first coupling end includes a conical section having a small diameter end and a large diameter end. A spacing between the small diameter end and the second coupling end along the longitudinal axis is smaller than a spacing between the large diameter end and the second coupling end along the longitudinal axis. The conical section has increasing diameters perpendicular to the longitudinal axis away from the second coupling end. The reinforcing sleeve is mounted around the conical section of the body to reinforce the socket.

Abstract: A fork cartridge driver having an outer ring and an inner driver which is reversible to engage both a fork cap and a fork cartridge. Also a second embodiment of a fork cartridge driver having an enclosed slot. Also a third embodiment of a fork cartridge driver having an engagement feature mate. Also a method for disassembling a fork cartridge assembly, which includes a fork cap having an octagonal outline portion and a fork cartridge having a ridge using a fork cartridge driver which is reversible.

Abstract: A socket includes a body and a sleeve. The body is made of metal and includes first and second coupling ends for respectively coupling with a fastener and a driving tool. The first coupling end includes an outer periphery having a first protruded section, a second protruded section, and an engagement section extending between the first and second protruded sections. The sleeve is made of metal having a hardness greater than a hardness of the body. The sleeve includes an inner periphery extending between first and second end faces of the sleeve. The inner periphery of the sleeve includes an engagement portion engaged with the engagement section of the body, with the sleeve not contacting with the first and second protruded sections.

Abstract: A socket wrench includes a handle and an actuating head connected with the handle. The handle has a first end provided with a mounting portion and a second end provided with a grip. The mounting portion of the handle has an inner wall provided with a pivot hole pivotally mounted on the actuating head and has an outer wall provided with a first driving arm and a second driving arm. The actuating head has an upper end provided with an extension which has a distal end provided with an elongate guide slot. Each of the first driving arm and the second driving arm of the handle is slidably mounted in the guide slot of the actuating head. The actuating head has a lower end inserted into a socket which is mounted on one bolt of a wheel.

Abstract: A fastener-driving sleeve assembly is driven by a driving tool to rotate a fastener, and includes a connecting sleeve and a reinforcing ring. The connecting sleeve has a tool-connecting portion and a fastener-connecting portion. The tool-connecting portion has a head-receiving hole engaging fittingly a driving head of the driving tool. The fastener-connecting portion has a fastener-receiving hole engaging fittingly the fastener. The reinforcing ring is sleeved fixedly on the fastener-connecting portion of the connecting sleeve. The reinforcing ring and the connecting sleeve have complementary interengaging surfaces. Preferably, the connecting sleeve and the reinforcing ring are made of two different metal materials, respectively.

Abstract: A socket includes a plurality of protrusions circumferentially disposed around a circular top opening in a top portion of the socket, whereby upon insertion of a driving (or coupling) shaft of a spanner with square head portion into the square hole in the socket, the square head portion of the driving shaft will be respectively biased or thrusted by the protrusions and then smoothly guided or slid through a sloping surface tapered downwardly radially from the circular opening into the square hole for quickly coupling the driving shaft of the spanner with the square hole in the socket. A socket further includes plural bottom protrusions disposed around a circular bottom opening in a bottom portion of the socket, and eighteen faces formed in a hexagonal bottom hole of the socket for helping a quick coupling of a nut or bolt into the bottom hole of the socket.

Abstract: A tool for torquing a regulator onto a cylinder of a portable cylinder assembly. The tool includes a nut and a socket. The nut is configured to fit around a body of a regulator of a portable cylinder assembly. As such, the nut has a first set of grooves that avoids one or more valve assemblies on the body of the regulator. The socket has a cavity extending therethrough such that the cavity consists of three sections: a top section, a middle section and a bottom section. The top section of the socket is configured to be coupled to a device that applies a torque force on the socket. The middle section of the socket is configured to avoid a case of the regulator which is disposed above the body of the regulator. The bottom section of the socket is configured to be coupled to the nut.

Abstract: A drive tool comprises a socket body, which has a drive end for coupling to a handle and a socket end for coupling to a bolt or nut. The drive end defines a drive opening for being engaged with a drive lug of the handle. The drive opening is defined by at least two sets of engagement surfaces, all sets of engagement surfaces being evenly distributed with respect to a central line of the socket body and being spaced at intervals of an angle, each set of engagement surfaces being configured to define a sub-opening that is matched with the drive lug of the handle so that the drive lug of the handle can be engaged with each set of engagement surfaces. Thereby, the handle can be coupled to the drive tool more easily so as to facilitate an operation.

Abstract: An anchor bolt assembly for securing a cabinet and other structures to a sub-floor. A bolt with coaxial upper and lower threaded bores receives a threaded member from above and secures it to a threaded member from below. The upper threaded bore allows the cabinet to be secured to the upper floor. The lower threaded bore provides a securing means for the anchor bolt and its attachments through coupling the threaded bolt from the upper threaded bore to a threaded member protruding from the sub-floor. This threaded member engages the lower threaded bore. The threaded bores of the bolt provide two areas of stabilization against shear and torsional stresses along the axis of the anchor bolt assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for marking a socket. The method includes the steps of providing a socket, making at least one indented mark in the surface of the socket, executing a heat treatment on the surface of the socket, providing at least one colored layer in the indented mark, providing an electroplated layer on the surface of the socket except the colored layer, removing a portion of the electroplated layer from the surface of the socket to form an exposed portion of the surface of the socket, and providing a black-dyed layer on the exposed portion of the surface of the socket. The heat treatment can be executed after the colored layer is provided.

Abstract: A socket includes a plurality of protrusions circumferentially disposed around a circular top opening in a top portion of the socket, whereby upon insertion of a driving (or coupling) shaft of a spanner with square head portion into the square hole in the socket, the square head portion of the driving shaft will be respectively biased or thrusted by the protrusions and then smoothly guided or slid through a sloping surface tapered downwardly radially from the circular opening into the square hole for quickly coupling the driving shaft of the spanner with the square hole in the socket. A socket further includes plural bottom protrusions disposed around a circular bottom opening in a bottom portion of the socket, and eighteen faces formed in a hexagonal bottom hole of the socket for helping a quick coupling of a nut or bolt into the bottom hole of the socket.

Abstract: A tool element has a body and an anti-skid collar. The body has an external surface, a connecting end, an operating end, a mounting recess and multiple notches. The mounting recess is annularly formed round the external surface of the body between the ends and has a bottom face. The notches are formed on the bottom face of the mounting recess at intervals. The anti-skid collar is an annular collar, is detachably mounted around the body and has an inner surface, an outer surface, a holding face and an anti-skid face. The holding face is formed on the inner surface and is rubbed against the notches of the body to hold the anti-skid collar securely on the body. The anti-skid face is formed on the outer surface of the anti-skid collar.

Abstract: A device for engaging and rotating a glad hand. The device featuring a receptacle and an adaptor flange. The receptacle shaped to allow a glad hand to be seated therein. The receptacle formed by a base and at least one side wall extending from the base. The adaptor flange axially extending from an exterior surface of the base of the receptacle opposite the at least one side wall, the adaptor flange having a body, a central cavity and a open end opposite the base, the central cavity of the adaptor flange extending longitudinally within at least part of the body from the open end.

Abstract: A socket and ratchet combination includes a socket element and a ratchet device or module. The ratchet device is a self-contained ratchet device module having a housing that houses a ratchet mechanism, and the socket element includes a passageway that is configured to receive the housing of the ratchet device therein. When a drive member of a lever arm is connected to the ratchet device and the lever arm is rotated in a first direction, the ratchet device and the socket element rotate in the first direction to rotatably drive a fastener at least partially received at an end region of the socket element, and when the drive member of the lever arm is connected to the ratchet device and the lever arm is rotated in a second direction, the ratchet device allows the lever arm to rotate in the second direction relative to the socket element.

Abstract: An interchangeable socket for a socket wrench or other tool is disclosed. The socket has a fastener-receiving end, dimensioned to receive and fit a specified fastener. The socket has a post-receiving end dimensioned to receive and fit a square cross-section drive post. The post-receiving end has a square cross-section hollow bounded by four walls intersecting at corners of the hollow. The post-receiving end has guide surfaces that intersect with the four walls and each other. The guide surfaces cooperate with the drive post to rotate and align the drive post with the square cross-section hollow. The guide surfaces are symmetric with respect to the four walls. The guide surfaces are symmetric with respect to the corners of the square cross-section hollow.

Abstract: A fork cartridge driver having an outer ring and an inner driver which is reversible to engage both a fork cap and a fork cartridge. Also a second embodiment of a fork cartridge driver having an enclosed slot. Also a third embodiment of a fork cartridge driver having an engagement feature mate. Also a method for disassembling a fork cartridge assembly, which includes a fork cap having an octagonal outline portion and a fork cartridge having a ridge using a fork cartridge driver which is reversible.

Abstract: A standard mechanic's ratchet modified with a square-receiving hole at the bottom of the handle receives the square drive of a second ratchet to provide additional leverage for the removal of nuts and bolts. Existing mechanics ratchets do not have a hole to accept the square drive of a second ratchet. The Adrin Leverage Ratchet provides mechanics with additional leverage for the removal of over-tightened nuts and bolts.

Abstract: A tool assembly for a rotary hammer is provided. The tool assembly includes an adapter and a drive socket removably mounted on the adapter. The adapter has a first end portion configured to be held by a chuck of the rotary hammer and a second end portion that includes a socket square drive fitting on which the drive socket is removably mounted. The socket drive fitting can have any suitable size. For example, the socket drive fitting can be a ¼ inch, a ? inch, a ½ inch, or a ¾ inch square drive fitting.