Abstract: An anti-torque coaxial cable connection apparatus comprising a cylindrical nut driver having a cut away portion alignable with a slot in a coaxial cylindrical wrench having a portion shaped to engage a cable adaptor having a cable adaptor portion adapted to be firmly engaged by said wrench. The alignment of the nut driver cutaway and the wrench slot forms an aperture which can be aligned over a cable inelastically joined to a cable adaptor to allow tightening in situ of a cable connector comprising a cable adaptor and a nut without interfering with said cable while the cable adaptor is firmly held to prevent damage to said inelastic joint.

Abstract: An adapter for use in aligning the front end suspension system of a vehicle enables a mechanic, working alone, to adjust the camber setting without otherwise requiring the mechanic to remove the wheel in order to gain access to the camber adjustment bolts, or without otherwise requiring assistance of a second mechanic. The adapter comprises a generally U-shaped tool having first and second legs and a bight portion for extending around opposite sides of the housing at the base of the suspension system strut assembly where the camber adjustment bolts are located. The first leg of the U has a bore with a closed interior surface adapted for engagement with the head of a camber adjustment bolt. The opposite second leg of the U has a fastener for being tightened against the opposite face of the housing. This holds the tool in a fixed position for locking the camber bolt against rotation.

Abstract: An utensil for mounting a tool on the chuck of a dentist's drill and for removing the tool for replacement is provided, which consists of a U-shaped frame, one web of which supports a rotatable and axially shiftable spring biased wrench section, the other web carrying a chuck-clamping array of projections and a resting reference plane, the wrench section engaging a correspondingly headed screw which fastens a drill tool to the drill shank and releases the tool when the screw is released.

Abstract: A water meter wrench adapted to loosen or tighten the meter's box ring or its equivalent while the meter is in its installed location - usually below the ground in a meter box. The wrench comprises a tubular main stem having a torque stabilizing bar attached to its upper end and a pair of water meter engaging forks attached to a support at its lower end, the distance between the forks being selectively adjustable. Within the tubular main stem is carried a socket drive shaft having a head at its upper end and a box ring engager at its lower end. In use, the box ring is engaged by the engager, the separation between the water meter forks is adjusted for the size of the meter, and the forks are engaged with the inlet and outlet portions of the meter. Next, the socket drive shaft is torqued in the desired direction, as with a socket or torque wrench, the drive shaft in turn torquing the box ring engager and hence the box ring.

Abstract: This invention is a unique mechanical combination devised to effect the rapid and efficient removal and replacement of the upper nut on the stem of the front shock-absorbers used in motor-vehicles. A round member, having a squared top, is scored in two places on the circumference thereof, which scores are adapted to receive and hold two snap-rings. The bottom part of the round member is relatively larger in exterior diameter than the body thereof and is interiorly oblongularly hollowed to fit over and to hold the stem of the shock-absorber. The round member with one snap-ring attached is adapted to be placed inside of and to move up and down in, a hollow cylindrical member for a distance governed by the position of the other snap-ring. The hollow cylindrical member has an exteriorly hexagonal hollow top section, the interior diameter of which is fractionally larger than the exterior diameter of the body of the round member and which holds the round member in movable working positions.

Abstract: An air driven dental handpiece having an air turbine at one end thereof. Collet means for securing a dental bur therein are positioned within the air turbine. The collet means includes a plurality of collapsible jaws at the bottom thereof. Threads are provided on the exterior surface of the collet means in the area of the jaws. The bottom of the collet means is tapered, and a collet nut is threadedly secured on the collet means. The collet nut has an internal taper which is complementary to the taper of the collet means. The threaded advancement of the collet nut on the collet means causes the collapsing of the jaws of the collet means, through the mating tapers, and accordingly a dental bur can be secured in the collet means.

Abstract: A unidirectional mechanism slides along guides within a casing against a spring. A recess in one end of the unidirectional mechanism receives the head of an anchor bolt, and a cover on the casing near that end receives a nut on the anchor bolt.Turning the casing in a counterclockwise direction engages the one-way mechanism, turning both the anchor bolt and the nut. When the anchor bolt is secure, the casing is turned clockwise. The one-way mechanism automatically disengages and the nut is turned on the anchor bolt without turning the anchor bolt.

Abstract: A working pit with an articulated tool arm assembly is provided for an automobile assembly line. A tool carried by the arm assembly is used to perform assembly operations in an automobile moving either longitudinally or transversely along the line. The articulated arm is mounted on a trolley which is movable longitudinally of the working pit along tracks adjacent a side wall of the pit. The tool arm can pivot horizontally toward and away from the pit wall and can pivot vertically to enable a tool holder at the end of the arm to move from a position at or below floor level to a position in the path of an automobile body moving along the assembly line above the pit. The tool holder enables the tool to rotate through a path of 360.degree. and to tilt. The articulated arm is especially designed for use with a nut runner to tighten nuts and bolts underneath the automobile body, but can also be used with other tools.

Abstract: A tool having a rotatable axially bored drive shaft for manipulating a fastener, such as a nut or bolt, is provided with retainer means for holding a removable, fastener-gripping socket in position on the shaft end while permitting an auxiliary non-rotatable tool shank to project through the axial bore and out the shaft end. The retainer means preferably comprises a circular steel spring structure fitted in the axial bore which urges a depressible socket-engaging button to project a short distance outwardly on a side surface of the shaft adjacent its end.

Abstract: The usual dental handpiece has a shank with an end housing with openings therein at opposite ends of an axis. One opening reveals a non-circular spindle. The other opening, adjacent the other end of the spindle, receives a non-circular burr threadedly engaging the spindle. The wrench has a central frame adapted to extend around the housing with one end overlying one of the openings and with a second end overlying the other of the openings. One wrench end has an open-sided, non-circular slot adapted nonrotatably to engage the non-circular burr by a motion in a direction normal to the axis. The other wrench frame end has a shaft rotatable and slidable in a coaxial journal. The shaft is nonrotatably engageable with the non-circular spindle. A knob on the shaft is used in manually rotating and axially sliding the shaft within the journal. A spring urges the shaft toward one extreme position. The frame has frame stops engageable with the handpiece shank in extreme rotated positions.

Abstract: A tool for installing an alignment pin assembly that includes a bolt with a hexagonal socket at one end, a locking nut that must be tightened on the bolt while the bolt is held against turning, and an adjustment nut which may have to be turned slightly relative to the bolt and locking nut. The tool includes a first nut engageable socket for engaging the locking nut, a key extending along the axis of the socket and slideable thereon to engage the hexagonal socket of the bolt, a second nut-engageable socket rotatably mounted about the first one for engaging the adjustment nut, and separate handles for turning the first socket and preventing turning of the key.

Abstract: A device for use with a water faucet of the type having at least one nut mounted on the water inlet pipes thereof beneath a water basin for holding the water faucet to the water basin. The device includes a wrench member for closely fitting around the nut holding the water faucet to the water basin and includes a securing member for securing the wrench member to the nut so that the nut can be easily removed from the water inlet pipe of the water faucet.

Abstract: The tool or device of the invention operates on an anchoring rod of the type which has spiral threads which threads only extend around a portion of the circumference thereof. Such an anchoring rod, when used to secure ceilings in mines, for example, has to be screwed into anchoring position and then have a nut screwed in the free end thereof to secure it against a steel plate applied against the wall of the ceiling. The device of the invention is in the form of a sleeve having an aperture at one end adapted to receive the nut to be applied and a means at the other end to connect to a torque applying device. Back of the nut receiving aperture, means are provided in the sleeve device which can, optionally, cause the rod, the end of which extends through the nut, to rotate with the sleeve, or to remain stationary while the nut is screwed thereon, whereby the insertion of the rods into the bore holes and the tightening of the nut thereon, can be accomplished rapidly with only one fitting of the tool thereon.

Abstract: A dental handpiece and a wrench adapted to be used in combination with the handpiece for securing a dental bur in the handpiece. The handpiece includes a turbine housing, a rotor shaft and a collet threadedly secured in the rotor shaft. The wrench has a plurality of fingers which are adapted to be received in the rotor shaft, and a shaft rotatably mounted in a tube from which the fingers project. The wrench shaft is adapted to threadedly advance or retract the collet relative to the rotor shaft.

Abstract: An improved blind bolt fastener installation tool with an apparatus for retrieving the stems of blind bolt fasteners, which are severed during the installation of such fasteners, by restraining each severed stem from falling from the installation tool until disengagement and direction into an enclosure for retaining severed stems.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool for adjusting the shock absorption characteristics of a strut-type motor vehicle suspension system having a shock absorber with an axially extending piston rod for attachment to the vehicle chassis, the rod having a threaded outer surface and a shaped tip, the shock absorber characteristic being adjustable by rotating the rod about its axis while the shock absorber is fully depressed. The tool comprises a hollow sleeve for threadedly engaging at one end the end portion of the shock absorber rod when the rod end is detached from the vehicle chassis, an inner core for insertion into the sleeve and having a connector end for non-rotatably engaging the shaped tip of the rod end, and means for securing the sleeve and the core in relative non-rotational position and for permitting simultaneous rotation of the sleeve and the core.

Abstract: An improved chuck wrench for contra-angle dental handpieces. The wrench includes a unitary angular C-shaped body, one of the arms of the body being provided with a socket and recess for accurately locating the wrench in position relative to the head of a handpiece when chuck adjustment (or removal) is desired. Between the paired arms is a knurled cylindrical wheel dimensioned to fit comfortably between, and be rotated by, the same fingers that receive the narrower connecting portion of the C-shaped body. A torsion spring shaft extends through the wheel and into the socket and has a non-circular end portion receivable within an opening of a handpiece chuck for locking the two parts (chuck and shaft) against independent relative rotation.

Abstract: The present invention includes an improved tool particularly useful for effecting the removal of a shock absorber from the upper structural member of an automobile frame, having a base member and an insert member slidably disposed within an opening through one end of the base member. One end of the base member is retainingly disposed over the nut securing the threaded extension of a shock absorber to the upper structural member and the end of the insert member disposed within the base member opening is retainingly connected to a head portion of the threaded extension, the base member being held in a stationary position thereby securing the nut in a stationary position while the insert member is rotated thereby rotating the shock absorber via the head portion connected thereto. The tool of the present invention thus allows the shock absorber to be rotated to unthread the connection between the shock absorber and the nut which secures the shock absorber to the automobile upper structural member.