Abstract: A wrench invention includes a handle having a cavity defined by a wall. A head extends from the handle and includes a compartment that is communicated with the cavity. A drive member is rotatably received in the compartment of the head and includes a plurality of teeth on an outer periphery thereof. A pawl is received in the cavity of the handle and engaged with the teeth of the drive member. The pawl is supported by two fixed rigid supporting areas when in an operative position for ratcheting operation.

Abstract: The equipment comprises a carousel (2) provided with a plurality of forms (3) designed to receive the products and stations, outside the carousel, for the loading and inspection (9) of the product, for setting (11) in a chamber and for discharge (13). On the carousel there are provided a plurality of units, each having guide means (29) for the radial sliding of a sliding support (31) on which the corresponding form (3) lies in a radial plane. Each of the stations (9, 11, 13) comprises a servo mechanism capable of moving said support to the outside of the carousel or in the opposite direction.

Abstract: The coupler tool of the present invention includes a ring having oppositely facing radial flat parallel sides and radial outer edges beveled toward one another. Extending axially outwardly from one of the sides is a handle portion. The handle portion includes a pair of laterally spaced apart arms extending axially outwardly from diametrically opposite areas of one side of the ring and a hand grip extending between the arms in axially spaced relation from such one side.

Abstract: A shoulder support for garments hung on a wire hanger is a generally unitary member made of a resilient material. The shoulder support has a center section and a pair of spaced shoulder sections connected at one end to the center section and extending in opposite directions. The center section has a front wall and a back wall disposed in spaced relation to define an opening. A releasable locking connector assembly is formed on the front wall for operative connection to the wire hanger for the garment. The shoulder support can be constructed from rigid plastic material, or optionally, flexible plastic material which will allow the shoulder support to narrow, squeeze or collapse when subjected to compressive forces during the storage or stacking of the garments assembled on the hanger, and when the compressive forces are removed, will expand to its original shape for protecting the garment from distortion and creasing.

Abstract: An adjustable garment hanger (100) is disclosed having movable arms (103, 107) which move laterally from a medial portion (105). The movable arms move as a result of engagement between a pair of linkage tongues (104, 106) and a medially positioned adjustment mechanism. The linkage tongues are positioned inside a U shaped guiding channel (113) positioned parallel to a pair of supporting arms extending from the medial portion of the garment hanger.

Abstract: A visor protector prevents a visor secured to a helmet from being scratched when not in use such as during transportation thereof. The protector includes a protective member that essentially covers at least the external surface of the visor. The protective cover is biased in pressuring configuration against the visor by stretchable straps secured to the protective member and releasably attaching to the helmet in stretched configuration. Preferably, the protective member includes an internal shell to simultaneously cover the internal surface of the visor and to form a transversal V-shaped cross-section of the protective member for slidably receiving the visor therein.

Abstract: A spark plug tube removal tool includes a cylindrical body member and an attached wedge member which may be driven by a bolt against the body member to alter the effective diameter of the tool upon insertion into a spark plug tube so as to wedge the tool within the tube and permit removal of the tube from an engine by turning or working the tool engine block.

Abstract: A hand held and operated set of fastener clip pliers is provided which is useful to secure together reinforcement steel members, for example, those used in concrete construction, upholstery and fencing. The fastener clip pliers are comprised of a lower handle and an upper handle. The lower handle has at least two first prongs that define at least one intermediate slot between. The upper handle is pivotally connected to the lower handle such that the upper handle and lower handle can pivot to an open position and to a closed position. The upper handle has at least one second prong dimension to fit within an intermediate slot in the closed position. A fastening clip is provided that has a small extension protruding therefrom for manipulating and properly placing the fastening clip around the steel members prior to securing the fastening clip to the steel members.

Abstract: The tool assembly includes a main metal body with three sockets respectively receiving the short legs of three differently-sized L-shaped wrenches. In stowed positions, the long legs of the wrenches lie against one side of the body in a nested configuration, the uppermost wrench being engageable with a retaining tab on the body to prevent movement of the wrenches axially of the sockets. The wrenches are pivotally movable about the axes of the sockets to unstowed positions, wherein they are movable axially of the sockets to either a removed condition, separated from the body, or a locked condition seated deeper in the sockets and retained against rotation. Dovetail-shaped tongues on opposite sides of the main body are respectively receivable in dovetail-shaped grooves on tire levers to mount the levers on the body, one of the levers holding the wrenches in their stowed positions. An O-ring encircles the parts of the assembly to provide additional retention.

Abstract: A pair of pliers for connecting a telephone line connector. The pliers have a compression connecting block connected with a limiting pin inserted in a limiting hole preferably of a triangular shape on one handle of the pliers. The upper edge of the limiting hole has an abutting edge bevel relative to a push guiding edge of the limiting hole. When the abutting edge contacts and presses the limiting pin, the contact point therebetween is located next to the center of the limiting pin towards the direction of an action force such that the component force of a resisting force from the center of the limiting pin towards the contact point is at the same side as that of the action force. Thus, the horizontal component force of the action force can be reduced; and the abrasion that the horizontal force component may cause on the guiding groove can be reduced.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an apparatus and method for controlling a power tong unit having a power spinner and, in a preferred embodiment, three power jaws. The control system controls grip pressure applied by a selected power jaw to a first wellbore tubular to provide a relatively reduced grip pressure when the power spinner is activated to thereby rotate a second wellbore tubular at a relatively high rotation speed but with a relatively low torque. The control system applies a relatively high grip pressure to two selected power jaws used for applying high torque but at a relatively slow rotation speed for final making up or initial breaking out of the wellbore tubulars with respect to each other.

Abstract: A socket magazine is made of a tubular body with a drive end and an open end. An O-ring lies in an annular groove in the tubular body and retains nuts in the tubular body while permitting them to squeeze past the O-ring for insertion into the magazine and removal from the magazine. A biasing spring biases the nuts toward the O-ring.

Abstract: A tool for adjusting extremely tight lug nuts, such as often found on tractor-trailer trucks, consists of a socket wrench pulled by a screw and anchored against another lug nut coaxial to the one being adjusted. A hand crank turns the screw, which in turn pulls the handle of the socket wrench toward the anchor yielding very high torque multiplication. The tool is elongated and shaped to permit its use in the tight space found in the annular recess surrounding the hubs of most truck wheels.

Abstract: The vibration nut wrench containing the body (1) with the control handle (2), the located into it drive (3) with the output shaft (4), the connected to it exciter of rotational oscillations designed in the form of two fly-wheels (5) and (6), connected to each other by the mechanism of variable speed (7) and the planetary reduction gear (8), the planet carrier (14) of which is directly connected to the spindle (15) of the wrench, which has the head for a wrench on its end specific in that the fly-wheel (6) of the exciter of rotational oscillations, located on the side of the planetary reduction gear, is supplied with the brake arrangement (16).

Abstract: A three-pin skull clamp includes a C-shaped frame which partially encircles the head of the patient, with a spring-loaded single skull pin assembly located at one end of the frame and adapted to engage the head of the patient with a desired engagement force, and two spaced skull pins mounted to a rocker arm located at an opposite end of the frame. Each of the rocker arm skull pins resides in operative contact with an indicator cap held by a spring-loaded pin carrier assembly, the indicator cap being movable relative to the rest of the pin carrier assembly in response to the engagement force applied to the corresponding skull pin by the head of the patient. By visibly comparing the positions of the indicator caps relative to their respective pin carrier assemblies, one can readily determine whether the engagement forces are equally distributed between the two rocker arm skull pins.

Abstract: A hand tool device 10 with opposing first and second drive ends 14 and 30, and storage for multiple tool bits 24 includes a handle portion 12, concentric first and second recesses 16 and 18 in the first end 14, a tool bit base member 22 that engages the first end 14, a plurality of preselected tool bits 24 removably secured to an inner wall 26 of the tool bit base member 22, a shank 28 integrally joined to the handle portion 12 via the first end 14, a third recess 32 in the second 30, a biasing spring 34 snugly inserted into the first recess 16, and a fitting 36 removably joined to a distal end 38 of the shank 28 for removably coupling a preselected tool bit 24 to the shank 28.

Abstract: A tool for applying torque to the hook formation of a lag hook for cabling a tree. The tool comprises an elongated body defining a rotational axis extending along the elongated length thereof between a torque receiving end and an opposite terminal end. An upper portion of the elongated body contains upper and lower wall surfaces forming two passageways at opposite sides of the rotational axis for passage of the curved end portion of a lag hook having either left-hand or right-hand threads to a socket traversed by the rotational axis and bounded by a torque delivering wall spaced from the rotational axis. A shank guide throat for the threaded shank of the lag hook extends from the socket between the lower wall surface and the terminal end of the elongated body.

Abstract: A quick release and toggle locking mechanism for a conventional pliers-type, toggle-locking hand tool comprises a compound toggle link. The mechanism includes a compound link pivotally connected to a movable handle and a toggle link. Retention means is provided for restricting pivotal movement of the compound link relative to the movable handle.

Abstract: A multi-function tool includes a head, a pair of handles, and a plurality of ancillary tools. The head and tools are stored within the handles in a folded configuration. The ancillary tools are coupled to an interchangeable cartridge that resides within one or both of the handles. A wedge lock prevents a fully opened ancillary tool from closing unless the wedge lock is manually disengaged.

Abstract: A ratchet tool includes a seat rotatably secured to a housing and having a number of teeth facing toward the housing, the housing having two channels for slidably receiving two pawls which are biased to engage with the teeth of the seat, and an actuator rotated by a control ferrule to selectively disengage the pawls from the teeth of the seat to control the rotational direction of the seat by the housing. A driving stem is engaged in the seat and has an engaging hole for changeably receiving a tool member. A rod may be biased to secure the tool member to the driving stem.