Abstract: A high speed rotary hand tool with an adjustable head coupling allows the tool head to be operated at extremely high speeds in a preselected angle in relation to the tool body. A coiled, flexible power drive is carried through a spherical head to transfer power from the motor drive to the tool drive. The spherical head has formed detent recesses in which detent balls are held by a combination of leaf springs and a locking sleeve. A safety pin and groove mechanism prevent the sleeve from being inadvertently released.

Abstract: A self-locking pliers provides automatic jaw adjustment for gripping objects of different sizes. First and second pinsers-defining members each have a body portion, a jaw-defining portion and a handle portion, being joined by a bolt extending through a slot in one of the members in pivotal, mutually moveable relationship. The slot permits pivoting as well as sliding movement of the first member relative to the second member, and has along a jaw-proximate side teeth to be engaged by corresponding teeth of a locking pawl carried rotatably within the slot by a shank of the bolt. A jaw-remote side of the slotted opening provides a smooth surface for sliding engagement of a smooth reaction surface of the locking pawl opposite from its teeth. The locking pawl has on its jaw-proximate side a camming surface proximate to the locking teeth. A control arm is pivotally engaged at one end to the body portion of the second member.