Patents Assigned to tool., Inc.
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Publication number: 20230329386Abstract: A safety helmet fan system includes a fan housing carrying a first fan on a first side of the fan housing and a second fan on a second side of the fan housing and configured to be mounted, by a mount connector located between the first side and the second side, on an exterior of a safety helmet shell above a brim of the safety helmet shell, and an elongate cooling air duct connected to the fan housing to direct cooling air flow from the fan housing around the brim and into an interior of the safety helmet shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Klein Tools, Inc.Inventor: Kingston T. Wong
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Patent number: 11788245Abstract: A belling auger includes a rotatable shaft, a main shaft extending through the rotatable shaft, a sliding sleeve mounted on the main shaft a bottom panel and a shovel rotatably attached to the rotatable shaft. Pressing the rotatable shaft down towards the sliding sleeve causes the shovel to hinge outward at the bottom of a piling hole. As the device rotates the shovel scoops dirt onto the pan, thus widening the bottom of the hole to a bell or cone shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Jess Tools, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Timbrook, Skyler Timbrook, Saylor Timbrook
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Patent number: 11787016Abstract: A plier wrench is provided and includes a jaw that can be disengaged from the remainder of the wrench and reengaged with the remainder of the wrench while the remainder of the wrench remains in its fully assembled condition. In one form, the jaw is “reversible” and includes two different jaw surfaces that can be selectively utilized depending upon the type of workpiece that will be engaged by the plier wrench.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Klein Tools, Inc.Inventors: Amina Gibic, Jordan L. Fisher
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Publication number: 20230311284Abstract: A pneumatic fastener driving tool that forces pressurized gas from a gas supply source into a chamber above a piston enclosed in a working cylinder. During an operational cycle, the pressurized gas is released, forcing the piston to fire. The firing valve seals the pressurized gas utilizing two rolling diaphragm seals, thereby providing less breakdown of hardware and removing the need for lubricant within the firing valve. These diaphragm seals exhibit a smaller diameter than prior diaphragms used in similar pneumatic fastener driving tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools, Inc.Inventor: Isabel R. Gruenhagen
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Publication number: 20230312303Abstract: 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Klein Tools, Inc.Inventor: Daniel R. Pearson
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Patent number: 11777285Abstract: Cable pullers are provided. A cable puller includes a frame, and a boom assembly rotatably connected to the frame. The boom assembly includes a drive assembly, a first arm extending in a first direction from the drive assembly, a second arm extending in a second opposite direction from the drive assembly, and a third arm rotatably connected to the second arm. Rotation of the boom assembly relative to the frame causes rotation of the third arm relative to the second arm to a position wherein a longitudinal axis of the third arm is parallel with a longitudinal axis of the second arm.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Current Tools, Inc.Inventor: Michael R. Smith
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Patent number: 11774313Abstract: Sealing adapters, pressure testing systems, pressure testing system kits, and associated methods. A sealing adapter comprises an adapter body and a mounting flange extending radially away from the adapter body. The adapter body includes a first end with a first sealing surface, a second end, and a fluid passageway. The mounting flange defines a plurality of stud receivers configured to receive mounting studs of a device under test (DUT). A pressure testing system may comprise a frame, a clamp structure with at least one sealing adapter, and a pressurizing assembly for delivering a pressurized fluid to the DUT. A method of pressure testing a DUT may comprise operatively coupling the DUT to the pressure testing system and delivering the pressurized fluid to the DUT.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Climax Portable Machine Tools, Inc.Inventors: Raymond James Jentges, Scott J. Thiel, Daniel M. Jensen
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Patent number: 11773681Abstract: A tool with a deformable element that is configured to flex across an annulus based on a force being applied to an inner surface of the deformable element. The deformable element may be configured to be positioned within a chamber that is covered by a first rupture disc. The deformable element may include seals, flex joints, and a body.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Vertice Oil Tools Inc.Inventor: Stephen Parks
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Patent number: 11751650Abstract: A wheeled backpack includes a bottom frame member, a fabric bag portion, a pair of laterally spaced wheels, a pair of side frame members, and a telescoping handle that can move between a retracted position and an extended position where the handle can be grasped by a user to roll the backpack on the wheels. The handle is located so that there is little or no fore and aft offset of the center of mass/gravity of the backpack, which minimizes torquing on the handle and associated pivoting of the backpack in a user's hand when the backpack is lifted by the handle with the handle in the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Klein Tools, Inc.Inventors: Kevin A. Ekdahl, Caleb Nielsen
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Patent number: 11749977Abstract: A device is used to sever an electrical power cable for the transmission of high voltage. The device includes a frame having first movable cutting blade carried thereon and second stationary cutting blades carried thereon. The blades can sever the electrical power cable upon movement of the first cutting blade relative to the frame. A sensor is provided and is configured to register a position of the first cutting blade relative to the frame. An evaluation and/or transmission controller is configured to receive information from the sensor and interrupt severing of the electrical power cable by the blades in response to the information.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignees: GUSTAV KLAUKE GMBH, GREENLEE TOOLS, INC.Inventors: Egbert Georg Gottfried Frenken, William John McNulty, Torsten Darkow, Andreas Lehr
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Patent number: 11746994Abstract: A battery powered lighting device is configured to be attached to lift bucket having sidewalls and an upper lip extending from uppermost portions of the sidewalls. The lighting device includes a main housing, a securing member, and a main light mounted to the main housing and located to illuminate areas outside of the lift bucket. The main housing includes a first securing surface and an upper housing portion, with the upper housing portion configured to be located above the upper lip of the lift bucket with the first securing surface engaged against a surface of the lift bucket. The main light is mounted to the main housing to move between a lower position wherein the main light is positioned below the upper housing portion and an upper position wherein the main light is positioned above the upper housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Klein Tools, Inc.Inventors: Clayton J. Gable, Kozeta C. Topchian, Eric Salinas, Scott M. Hargis, John H. Kargenian
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Patent number: 11745923Abstract: A cable tie includes a strip of material having a pair of longitudinally extending sides spaced from each other by a width W. In one form the strip includes a plurality of additional openings that are configured to receive the shank of a fastener. In one form, a plurality of first and second size openings are formed in the strip and spaced from each other along the longitudinal axis. Each of the first size openings have a first length LF parallel to the longitudinal axis and are located in a corresponding one of a first set of wide portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Klein Tools, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Wollin, John Gibbons
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Publication number: 20230275535Abstract: A method includes operating an electric implement to move or cut material in an outdoor environment, wherein operating the electric implement creates acoustic sound and managing the acoustic sound by selecting an operating frequency for the electric implement and controlling an electric motor of the electric implement in accordance with the operating frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: Oregon Tool, Inc.Inventors: Edgar A. Dallas, Erik Jensen, Shaun Conley, Jonathan Ziring
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Publication number: 20230264331Abstract: A fastener magazine for a fastener driving tool has a movable guide that allows fasteners of various lengths to be loaded in the magazine. When engaged, the movable guide sequentially directs each fastener's movement during a drive stroke. When disengaged, the movable guide does not interfere with each fastener's movement during a drive stroke. In the engaged position, the movable guide prevents a fastener from complete “backtracking” back into the magazine during a drive stoke, which otherwise could potentially cause a jam condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools, Inc.Inventor: Alexander L. Carrier
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Patent number: 11732544Abstract: A completion assembly includes an upper liner and a lower liner, a wellbore completion component that interposes the upper and lower liners, a dissolvable pipe plug secured within an aperture defined in the wellbore completion component, and a dissolvable projectile seat arranged adjacent the wellbore completion component.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: NexGen Oil Tools Inc.Inventors: Dane Elliott, Alfred Moseley, Travis Jack Power
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Patent number: 11732541Abstract: An apparatus for hanging a production string and a coil tubing within a well, the apparatus comprising: a main body with a lower end defining an annular mounting flange; a production string tubing hanger bowl in the interior open area configured for accommodating the production tubing string suspended therein, the production string tubing hanger bowl having a center axis non-concentrically positioned relative to the annular mounting flange; and a coil tubing access port extending from the outer surface of the main body to an inner opening, the coil tubing access port configured for accommodating the coil tubing passing therethrough and having an angular orientation downwardly and being on an angle off vertical and directed away from a center point of the annular mounting flange.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: EVOLUTION OIL TOOLS INC.Inventors: Emery Stoesser, Vern Hult, Chris Patton
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Patent number: 11733338Abstract: An MRI phantom having an MRI compatible temperature measurement device having an MRI compatible body containing an MRI compatible fluid, wherein the device senses accurate temperature measurement within an MR Scanner environment using image processing of the contrast in signal between the areas of the image around the device and the fluid contained within the body of the device. The MRI Phantom may further include an internal expansion bladder device accomodating internal changes in pressure within the phantom, wherein the internal expansion bladder device includes frames supporting a pair of spaced membranes defining a chamber filled with a compressible gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: PSYCHOLOGY SOFTWARE TOOLS, INC, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATIONInventors: Anthony P. Zuccolotto, John Dzikiy, Leroy K. Basler, Benjamin A. Rodack, Walter Schneider, Sudhir K. Pathak, Michael A. Boss
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Patent number: 11731254Abstract: A gas spring fastener driving tool, having a cylinder filled with compressed gas that forces a piston/driver through a driving stroke movement; a rotary-to-linear lifter, then moves the piston/driver back to its ready position, preparing the tool for another driving stroke. The driver has protrusions (teeth) along its edges to contact extending pins of the lifter member, for lifting the driver during a return stroke. The driver's movements are detected by position sensors, and the information provided by those position sensors is used to prevent the lifter from impacting against the driver in situations where the driver did not finish its driving stroke in a correct (“in specification”) position. The use of two position sensors allows a Dry Fire diagnostic test to determine if gas pressure in the gas storage chamber is too high, or has become too low.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools, Inc.Inventors: Anthony D. Kabbes, Thomas Matthew Webster, Steven R. Streicher, Thomas A. McCardle, William H. Hoffman, Christopher D. Klein
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Patent number: 11733675Abstract: A method of fabrication for a component to be installed in a facility, the facility being represented by an electronic design model, the method including extracting, at a computing device and from the model, details of the component and controlling a plurality of stations with the computing device to fabricate and track the component.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Greenlee Tools, Inc.Inventor: Kevin Bollendorf
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Patent number: 11719311Abstract: A worm drive fit system is provided, including a yoke member and a drive assembly, the drive assembly including a dial housing having an exterior and interior surface, wherein the interior surface includes a dial gear in operable engagement with a pinion gear. The drive assembly further includes a worm gear in operable engagement with the pinion gear, a spool gear in operable engagement with the worm gear, and a spool attached to the spool gear, wherein the spool is rotatably mounted to the yoke and configured to receive a filament to be tightened around the spool.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Tool, Inc.Inventor: John D. Fiegener