Abstract: A finish-protective tool piece and a finish-protective tool piece collar are made from non-marring materials that circumferentially surround and secure a tool piece for rotating fasteners having driving heads. This collared tool piece or collar substantially protects against the marring and damaging of consumer item finishes during final stages of assembly by tool pieces skipping off the fastener heads during operation onto painted or otherwise finished surfaces. The collared tool piece or collar is being adapted for individual tool piece diameters or styles and rotates with the secured tool piece, said tool piece extending therethrough so as to be able to rotate the fastener. This invention has obvious cost advantages as it can prove useful in practically all aspects of consumer item manufacturing including automobiles, appliances, barbecues, furniture, bicycles, etc.

Abstract: An universal socket wrench, which includes a socket body for attaching to the workpiece to be turned, a locating block mounted in the socket body, the locating block having a plurality of through holes through top side and bottom sides thereof, a solid cover plate covered on the bottom side of the locating block, a pad covered on the top side of the locating block, the pad having a plurality of insertion holes respectively axially aligned with the through holes at the locating block, a plurality of spring members respectively mounted in the through holes inside the locating block, a plurality of rod members respectively inserted through the through holes at the pad into the through holes at the locating block and supported on the spring members, the rod members each having an outer end terminating in a holding down block suspended outside the locating block, and a plurality of connecting members stopped inside the locating block by the pad and respectively connected between the spring members and the rod memb

Abstract: A socket includes two open ends and each open end has a polygonal inner periphery. Three of the sides defining each polygonal inner periphery have a groove defined therein and two springs are received in the two open ends. Each open end has a frame received therein and contacts the spring. Each frame has three protrusions which is received in the grooves and extend radially into the open end. Each frame is retained by a retaining device. A small object can be engaged with the three protrusions in the open end, and a large object can be engaged with the polygonal inner periphery of the open end by pushing the frame and the spring.

Abstract: A universal socket wrench includes a housing having an inner bore and an outer opening of different sizes for forming a shoulder between the opening and the bore. The housing has a number of depressions communicating with the shoulder of the housing. A plate is engaged with the opening and the shoulder of the housing and has a number of projections engaged with the depressions of the housing for solidly securing the plate to the housing. A number of spring biased posts are slidably engaged with the plate for driving fasteners of various sizes.

Abstract: A universal socket tool for rotating a fastener element includes a rigid housing comprising a conventional socket casing having a polygonal shaped longitudinal chamber, the chamber having an end wall at its upper end and an open lower end. An array of primary engagement pins, each having upper and lower ends, are longitudinally oriented in the chamber. A pair of spaced apart, secondary engagement pins, each having upper and lower ends, are also longitudinally oriented in the chamber with the primary engagement pins disposed therebetween. The secondary engagement pins are preferably triangular in cross-section so as to fill the polygonal cavity of the housing. Springs are provided for attaching the primary and secondary engagement pins to the upper end of the chamber of the housing. In a second embodiment, a sleeve-type suspension mechanism is provided for positively securing the pins to the housing so that the pins cannot be pulled out of the housing.

Abstract: A universal socket used with a wrench for turning different sizes of bolts, nuts, etc., the universal socket including a socket body having a working hole at one end for receiving the workpiece, a nest block mounted in the working hole of the socket body to hold a set of retaining pins in vertical through holes thereof, and spring elements respectively mounted in the nest block to push the retaining pins out of the nest block for holding down the workpiece, permitting the workpiece to be turned with the socket body when the socket body is turned with the wrench by hand.

Abstract: A socket includes a housing and a plate secured in the housing and having a number of apertures for slidably receiving a number of rods. A number of posts are secured to the rods and each includes a hexagonal cross section having six surfaces for engaging with the fasteners. A number of springs are engaged with the posts for allowing the posts to be depressed inward of the housing and for allowing the socket to engage with the fasteners of various sizes. The surfaces of the posts may solidly engage with the fastener for solidly retaining the fasteners in place.

Abstract: A multiple sockets wrench which is able to accommodate and twist a great variety of differently sized and shaped nuts, bolts and screws. The wrench includes a polygonal tubular housing and several groups of clamping blocks axially retractably received in a front end of the housing. When used to twist a nut or a bolt head, the nut or bolt head contacts with the groups of the clamping blocks to force the unsuitable contacted clamping blocks into the housing, while permit the suitable uncontacted clamping blocks to hold the nut or bolt head.

Abstract: A socket drive tool includes an elongated shaft having a coupling structure for coupling to a socket. The coupling structure includes a detent ball disposed in a detent recess and moveable between retaining and releasing positions relative to the socket. The shaft has a cavity therein communicating with the detent recess. A tubular sleeve having a sleeve cam surface is disposed coaxially about the shaft for movement between a retaining condition and a releasing condition. A rod is moveable axially between retaining and releasing conditions, being spring-biased to the latter. The rod has within the cavity a first cam surface engageable with the detent ball and a second cam surface engageable with a transfer ball which is, in turn, engageable with the sleeve cam surface.

Abstract: A universal socket is described which is suitable for use upon a myriad of fastening means whereupon at least a plurality of pins are capable of longitudinal axial movement in concert and in conformity with contact with a workpiece. This result is achieved by the incorporation of a biasing mechanism on the pins which biases the pins in a normally extended position, but which permits movement to a second retracted position. In one embodiment, the cross-sectional area of the pins is decreased in either a linear or non-linear manner from the outer periphery to the center of the socket. In operation, as the workpiece is inserted into the socket, the pins are moved in a longitudinal axial direction from their normally extended position to the second retracted position in conformity with the shape of the workpiece.

Abstract: A self-forming socket having a plurality of retractable pins bundled in parallel within a housing is disclosed. The bundled pins may displace longitudinally and are biased by spring force away from a frame onto which the pins are slidably held. A spacer pin may be positioned at the center of the socket and is similarly biased away from the frame under spring force. When the socket is forced over a fastener, nut, or bolt head, groups of pins are pushed inward toward the frame and into the housing thereby conforming the pins to the contours of the fastener. Applying a torque to the socket transfers the torque through the bundled pins to the fastener. Each pin has a circular cross-section and the interior walls of the housing containing the bundled pins has a hexagonal shape and does not contain any right angles. The pins are packed in a hexagonal arrangement.

Abstract: A wrench extension tool having a gear train of intermeshing idler gears contained within an inner housing formed of two (2) curved and substantially parallel plates. Aligned pairs of bores are provided through the parallel plates providing residence for axle pins about which the idler gears rotate. At each end of the wrench extension tool is a socket opening in which there resides an end gear. Each end gear includes a journal portion extending therefrom with the socket opening serving as bearings for such journals. Each end gear includes a hexagonal socket receptacle into which interchangeable driven and drive sockets can be inserted by a user. A locking mechanism is provided to retain the chosen drive and driven sockets in the socket receptacles. In such manner, a relatively narrow wrench extension tool is provided where either end of the wrench extension tool can serve as the driven end and either end can serve as the drive end.

Abstract: A universal socket wrench is provided comprising a housing having an internal chamber which is open at a first end thereof. A bundle of members having relatively large cross-sectional area-to-length ratios is supported in a slidable relationship within the chamber. The first ends of the slidable members are arranged for engagement with a fastener component. The slidable members have a chevron shape and a generally nonuniform cross-sectional area, and are arranged in sets, the outer and inner perimeter of each set having a fragmentary, asymmetrical shape. The slidable members are supported within the housing by outwardly extending flanges on the second ends of the members, which conform to and engage with inset shoulders on the chamber and on the second ends of the members.

Abstract: A self-forming socket having a plurality of retractable pins bundled in parallel within a housing. The bundled pins may displace longitudinally and are biased by spring force away from a frame onto which the pins are slidably held. A spacer pin may be positioned at the center of the socket and is similarly biased away from the frame under spring force. When the socket is forced over a fastener, nut, or bolt head, groups of pins are pushed inward toward the frame and into the housing thereby conforming the pins to the contours of the fastener. Applying a torque to the socket transfers the torque through the bundled pins to the fastener. Each pin has a circular cross-section and an enlarged head and the interior walls of the housing containing the bundled pins has a hexagonal shape and may not contain any right angles. Grooves can be formed in the sides of the hexagonal shape to receive therein circular sides of adjacent ones of the enlarged heads. The pins are packed in a hexagonal arrangement.

Abstract: An adjustable head structure for wrenches is disclosed. The head structure has a head unit integrally formed with or separately formed from a wrench handle. The head unit is commonly used for tightening or loosening nuts and bolts having different sizes by detachably fitting a size adjusting block in one of fitting edges of a size adjusting opening eccentrically formed in the head unit. The head unit has a polygonal depression having side walls. The size adjusting opening having a plurality of fitting edges is eccentrically formed on the bottom of the depression such that the distances from the fitting edges to associated side walls of the depression are different from each other. A size adjusting block is selectively and detachably fitted in one of the fitting edges of the opening, thereby adjusting a grip size of the head unit.

Abstract: A universal socket tool includes a housing having a square internal chamber which is open at a lower end thereof. An array of square pins is suspended in sliding relation in the chamber with the lower ends of the pins arranged for engagement with a plurality of different fastening elements. Selected pins include tapered lower ends for engagement with a slotted screw heads. The pin suspension system includes upper and lower plates mounted in spaced relation in the chamber. The plates have aligned apertures for slidably receiving the upper ends of the pins. A flange at the top of each pin is positioned above the upper plate and a lower end of each pin is located below the lower plate. Each pin is provided with a spring disposed around its upper end for returning the pins to their normal position after disengaging the fastening element.

Abstract: A socket for a socket wrench comprising a socket body having a socket cavity formed at a lower portion of the socket body to extend vertically and a through hole, a pair of facing half sockets with different sizes fitted in the socket cavity to slide vertically, and an adjusting mechanism provided at an upper portion of the socket body and adapted to selectively adjust the vertical slide movements of the half sockets.

Abstract: A T-type socket wrench having three hexagonal rods on three ends of a Y-shaped handle, and three double-head hexagon sockets of successive hexagonal holes mounted on the three hexagonal rods and stopped at respective first positions by respective first steel balls for turning hexagon head screws. Each double-head heaxgon socket is moved inwards on the respective hexagonal rod and stopped at a respective second position by a respective second steel ball permitting a hexagon bit of different size on the respective hexgonal rod to project out of the respective double-head hexagon socket for turning a socket head screw or the like.

Abstract: A tool having several coaxially disposed socket members housed within each other and corresponding to conventional sizes. The sockets are spring loaded, and each reduces its diameter towards the outer end that prevents the abutting sockets contained therein from falling off as a result of gravity or the spring force of the different spring members associated with each one of the sockets. The springs members urge these sockets outwardly, and the springs members of the sockets that are smaller than the head of the bolt or screw being matched are overcome and retracted, thereby the matching socket cooperatively engages with the head. Corresponding covers provide the necessary support area for the springs to exert their force against their corresponding socket members. An upper master socket assembly is removably mounted to the larger socket member, and it provides suitable engagement for a crank or lever to produce the necessary torque to rotate the socket members.

Abstract: A shielding piece is adapted to be placed over the end of a socket wrench to protect the finish of decorative nuts from marring by the socket during wrenching operations, the shielding piece formed from a cushioning glass filled polyurethane material sufficiently soft to be non-marring to the nut and wheel surfaces. The shielding piece is configured with an inner liner portion and an outer shell portion joined together so that when in place the inside and outside of the open end of the socket is completely covered to protect the adjacent wheel and hub surfaces from marring by the socket as the nuts are wrenched tight. A composite preferred version of the shielding piece is also disclosed, in which an aluminum liner is molded to a polyurethane nose piece, the aluminum liner being highly resistant to compression failure while being sufficiently soft to be non-marring to the nut wrenching surfaces. A lug wrench adapter having an attached shielding piece is also disclosed.

Abstract: A tool for form engaging and turning components such as nuts, bolts, and screws. In its basic form, it includes a chamber which in turn supports a bundle of pins each of which is adapted to slide further upwardly into the chamber when the lower pin end contacts the component at the lower end of the housing.

Abstract: This invention discloses a multi-purpose modular plug crimp tool which is provided with at least one set of modular plug receiving groove, conduction piece pressing block, bus pressing block etc., and is thus applicable to perform crimp operations for several types of modular plugs.

Abstract: A socket set in which all of the sockets of decreasing order can interfit into each other and for connecting to the drive for transporting from one place to another. Each of the sockets may be interchanged in position so that the sockets may be engaged with each other and used as an extension for any other socket size.

Abstract: A socket having an interior working part shaped to engage an item such as a nut and having an insert which is geometrically similar to said interior working part of the socket, said insert being a sliding close fit within the socket so as to be movable to and from a position of use and so that one of the socket and said insert can be used to engage said item, and including means to urge said insert towards the position of use, and means for selectively restraining said insert in the position of use.

Abstract: The multisized fastener driving tool includes a plurality of sockets slidably received one within the other. A first or outer most socket (A) includes a plurality of first fastener engaging portions (20, 22, 24) for engaging alternate corners of a fastener driving surface and a plurality of first guideways, one positioned between each of the first fastener engaging portions. A second socket (B) includes a plurality of second fastener engaging portions (50, 52, 54) which are slidably received in the first guideways and are adapted to engage the driving surface of a smaller fastener. A third socket (C) includes a plurality of fastener engaging portions (80, 82, 84) which are slidably received in the second guideways and the first fastener engaging portions for engaging a still smaller fastener. Additional sockets may be provided for accommodating yet smaller fasteners. An end cap (E) is configured to be connected with a ratchet drive or the like.

Abstract: A wrench adapter is disclosed which can be inserted into and removed from standard size wrenches. The adapter includes a plurality of pins interconnected by a resilient retainer which operates to position the pins in an array arranged to fit into the corners of a mating wrench opening. The adapter permits the conversion of wrenches between inch and metric sizes, and also allows a wrench to be used with a damaged fastener or with cylindrical elements such as studs.