Patents Assigned to Harmon P. Yates
  • Patent number: 4384499
    Abstract: A multi-configurational tool device with improved tool storage. The device is of the type having a plurality of tools, each including a pair of angularly disposed, integrally joined elongate shanks having working ends and a surface run having facets. The device, additionally, has an elongate carrier including an elongate channel with a base and an open side extending longitudinally of the channel. The base cooperates with a pivot member secured to the carrier and spaced apart from the base to form a nip region through which the tool shanks are moved for positioning of the tools in a working mode. The improvement includes a groove at least partially encircling a shank of a tool to accommodate rotating of the shank about its longitudinal axis to permit a change in the extension direction of the associated integral shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1981
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1983
    Assignee: Harmon P. Yates
    Inventor: Cy Shockley