Abstract: A fish tape system includes a fish tape and a case having a storage compartment that stores the fish tape for deployment from the case. The fish tape has a length extending from a first end to a second end. The length includes a luminescent material that emits light after being energized by exposure to a light source. At least a portion of the case is transparent to allow the luminescent material 22 to be energized by light passing through the transparent portion and into the storage compartment.

Abstract: An accessory mount system is provided for mounting on an aerial work platform having sidewalls extending upwardly from a base to a rim or lip. The mount system is configured to be releasably attached to the lip and one or more of the sidewalls of the work platform and includes quick-connect accessory mounts that allow various types of accessories or accessory mount/holders to be mounted on the system and, via the system, on to the work platform. The system can include a quick-connect mechanism for releasably mounting an accessory to the system. The quick-connect mechanism includes a catch mounted to a frame to pivot between a release position and a lock position and a user actuated release lever connected to the catch to allow a user to actuate the catch from the lock position to the release position.

Abstract: A wire dispensing storage container includes a number of features. In one feature, the container includes two pairs of axel mounts, each pair of mounts configured to mount one axel that can extend through a central opening in a wire spool to mount the spool within the container while allowing the spool to rotate for dispensing of wire from the spool and the container by a worker. One pair of the mounts is configured to allow an axel and a spool carried thereon to be removed from the container and installed into the container by a worker via a horizontally facing, front opening in the container. The other pair of axel mounts is configured to allow another axel and a spool carried thereon to be removed from the container and installed into the container by a worker via a vertically upwardly facing top opening in the container.

Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing tie wire having a housing with a main housing part and a cover part. The cover part is releasably joined with the main housing part to thereby place the main housing part and cover part in an assembled relationship wherein a wrapped supply of tie wire is blocked in an operative position within the housing. A latch component is selectively movable between latched and unlatched positions. In the latched position the main housing part and cover part are maintained in the assembled relationship. A latch control is selectively changeable between first and second states, and: i) with the latch control in the first state, the latch control blocks the latch component from moving from the latched position into the unlatched position; and ii) with the latch control in the second state, the latch component can be moved from the latched position into the unlatched position.

Abstract: A safety helmet includes an outer shell having a front receptacle disposed on a front side of the outer shell and a rear receptacle disposed on a rear side of the outer shell. A first accessory device having a first mating receptacle formed thereon is releasably mountable onto each of the front receptacle or the rear receptacle of the outer shell, and a second accessory device having a second mating receptacle formed thereon is releasably mountable onto each of the front receptacle or the rear receptacle of the outer shell.

Abstract: A system for collecting debris produced during a cutting operation and having a shield to be placed against a surface so that the shield and surface cooperatively define an accumulation volume. The shield has at least one opening communicating from the accumulation volume to externally of the shield. First, second, and third different connectors are provided respectively on first, second, and third conduits, each with a passage. The first, second, and third connectors are releasably operatively engageable with the adaptor, one in place of the others, whereby a communication path is defined from the accumulation volume through the at least one shield opening and into the passage on one of the first, second, and third conduits on a selected one of the first, second, and third connectors that is releasably operatively engaged with the adaptor. The communication path is usable to direct debris produced from cutting from the collection volume to a location externally of the shield.

Abstract: A multiple component system is provided for mounting on a safety helmet and includes a first component housing carrying a first component, and a second component housing carrying a second component. Each housing has a first mount connector and a second mount connector located on opposing faces of the housing. The first mount connectors are configured to be compatible with the second mount connectors to provide quick release mount connections between the housings.

Abstract: A laser level includes a housing having a laser emitter to emit a laser along a plane. The laser level includes a mounting base connected to the housing. The housing is pivotable relative to the mounting base about three axes by a user grasping the housing and moving the housing. The housing includes a first micro-adjustment knob to adjust the housing, relative to the mounting base, about a fourth axis. The housing includes a second micro-adjustment knob to adjust the housing, relative to the mounting base, about a fifth axis perpendicular to the fourth axis.

Abstract: A reversible, multiple-bit, hand tool for driving threaded fasteners and nuts includes a handle and a reversible tool holder assembly. The reversible tool holder assembly is insertable into the handle in either of two orientations to present two different ends provide multiple different configurations for driving different types of threaded fasteners and nuts. The reversible tool holder assembly includes a reversible adapter barrel, a first tool holder, a second tool holder, a first reversible bit holder, and a second reversible bit holder. Each of the tool holders can be selectively used as a nut driver with the holder assembly inserted in either orientation in the handle or can be removed from the adapter barrel and used separately as a power bit driver or a power nut driver (PND) that is received in any conventional chuck of a powered rotary tool.

Abstract: A merchandise product is provided with a combination square having a head having a blade receiving slot and a blade releasably received in the blade receiving slot. The merchandise product includes a packaging card including a retainer structure configured to retain the head to the packaging card, a slot extending through the packaging card, and a retention member configured to pass through the slot and the blade. The retention member is configured to slide along a length of the slot and allow rotation of the blade about the retention member.

Abstract: A pass-through socket set 1 includes a ratchet wrench, a plurality of nut driving sockets, a socket driving extension, and an impact driver adaptor. Each of the sockets and the extension can be engaged in the ratchet wrench 12 to be driven thereby, with the extension also being able to engage each of the sockets to transfer torque from the wrench to the socket when the extension is engaged in the. Furthermore, each of the sockets and the extension 16 can be engaged in the adaptor 18 to allow the socket to be driven/rotated by a power driver, such as any conventional and known powered impact driver, powered drill, or powered screwdriver, by engaging a shank of the adaptor in the quick connect or chuck of the power driver.

Abstract: A device for supporting an object on a structure includes a mounting member having a front face and a side face, a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole passing through the front face, wherein the first mounting hole is a first distance from the second mounting hole, a first positioning structure and a second positioning structure on the side face, wherein the first positioning structure is a second distance from the second positioning structure, wherein the first distance is the same as the second distance, and a hook on the front face.

Abstract: A hand tool for stripping wire includes a first handle and a second handle. The hand tool includes a first base member having a first jaw section and a second base member having a second jaw section. The hand tool includes a clamping portion corresponding to the first jaw section, the clamping portion having a bottom clamping member defining a clamping plane and a top clamping member. The hand tool includes a stripping blade set, including a fixed blade disposed on a first side of the second jaw and a movable blade disposed on a second side of the second jaw. The fixed blade and the movable blade form a first stripping hole, a second stripping hole, and a third stripping hole, the first stripping hole, second stripping hole, and the third stripping hole each having different offset from the clamping plane.

Abstract: A multimode hand tool is disclosed for driving a threaded fastener component in three different modes. A first mode allows a handheld power drive, such as a handheld drill/driver, to rotate a threaded fastener via the hand tool similar to a conventional right angle drive attachment. A second mode allows a user to rotate a threaded fastener by applying a torque force onto a portion of the hand tool in the same fashion as when using a standard ratchet wrench. A third mode allows a user to rotate a threaded fastener by rotating one part of the hand tool relative to another part of the hand tool.

Abstract: A fish tape system includes a fish tape and a case having a storage compartment that stores the fish tape for deployment from the case. The fish tape has a length extending from a first end to a second end. The length includes a luminescent material that emits light after being energized by exposure to a light source. At least a portion of the case is transparent to allow the luminescent material 22 to be energized by light passing through the transparent portion and into the storage compartment.

Abstract: A digital angle gauge includes a housing body. The housing body includes a first surface having a first light opening, a second surface, opposing the first surface, having a second light opening, and a third surface, adjacent the first surface and the second surface, having a third light opening. The digital angle gauge includes an orientation sensor configured to measure an orientation of the housing body with respect to gravity. The digital angle gauge includes a light source, wherein the light source emits light based on the measured orientation of the housing body. The digital angle gauge includes a light guide, disposed in the housing body, directing the light from light source to the first light opening, the second light opening, and the third light opening.

Abstract: A nested locknut wrench system includes a first wrench and a second wrench. Each wrench has a base portion having a flat portion including at least one magnet. Each wrench has a first extension portion extending perpendicularly from a first end of the base portion. Each wrench has a first arc-shaped finger extending perpendicularly from the first extension portion and having a first hook member extending radially inward from the first arc-shaped finger. Each wrench has a second extension portion extending perpendicularly from a second end of the base portion opposite the first end. Each wrench has a second arc-shaped finger extending perpendicularly from the second extension portion and having a second hook member extending radially inward from the second arc-shaped finger.

Abstract: A tool mount for use with a sleever bar includes a locking handle moveable between a secured position and a locked position. The tool mount further includes a positioning wheel aligned adjacent to the locking handle. The positioning wheel may be configured to engage the locking handle when the locking handle is in the locked position, and rotate freely relative to the locking handle when the locking handle is in the secured position. The tool mount further includes a tool holder coupled to the positioning wheel and configured to receive the sleever bar, wherein the tool holder rotates freely with the positioning wheel when the locking handle is in the secured position.

Abstract: A nested locknut wrench system includes a first wrench and a second wrench. Each wrench has a base portion having a flat portion including at least one magnet. Each wrench has a first extension portion extending perpendicularly from a first end of the base portion. Each wrench has a first arc-shaped finger extending perpendicularly from the first extension portion and having a first hook member extending radially inward from the first arc-shaped finger. Each wrench has a second extension portion extending perpendicularly from a second end of the base portion opposite the first end. Each wrench has a second arc-shaped finger extending perpendicularly from the second extension portion and having a second hook member extending radially inward from the second arc-shaped finger.

Abstract: A device for removing the sheathing from an electrical cable includes a body having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a longitudinal portion therebetween, and a passage extending through the longitudinal portion from the first end to the second end. The second end defines a first terminal portion of a channel extending along at least a portion of the longitudinal portion of the body. A first cutting edge is disposed within the passage and configured to cut a sheathing of an electrical cable extending through the passage upon the device being moved in a first direction. A second cutting edge is disposed at an angle to the first cutting edge at a second terminal portion of the channel opposite the first terminal portion, and configured to cut the sheathing from the electrical cable upon the device being moved in a second direction opposite the first direction.