Abstract: A hand tool for enabling a mechanic to manually rotate a diesel engine, said tool comprising an elongated generally L-shaped handle having a flange located at the lower end thereof and having toothed wheel secured to said handle at a point spaced from said flange a distance such that when said flange is inserted into the recess of a diesel engine damper, said toothed wheel will rest on the outer surface of said damper and, when said tool is rotated, said flange and said wheel will clamp said damper therebetween to enable the mechanic to manually rotate said damper and said engine.

Abstract: A pivoting socket wrench socket attachment is provided including a socket wrench with an outboard end including at least one a detent formed therein. A socket attachment includes an inboard face, an outboard face, and a periphery formed therebetween. The outboard face has a bore formed therein for attachment with at least one of a nut and a bolt. An inboard face is provided including an opening defined by at least one face with an indent formed therein for engaging the detent of the socket wrench. The open is further adapted to allow the pivoting of the socket attachment with respect to the socket wrench about an axis which intersects the detent and indent.

Abstract: A pliers-knife combination tool including pivotally connected elongated members. A working region of the tool includes opposed gripping jaws on interior faces of the elongated members and at least one knife edge on an exterior edge of one of the elongated members. Engaging the opposed gripping jaws with each other allow use of the tool as a knife. A method of fabricating the tool includes maximizing the size of the tool for a given size forming machine. Each member is formed separately from the other member to permit sizes as large as possible for the forming dies and machines used. The members are pivotally connected after forming to produce a larger size tool than if both the first and second members were simultaneously formed in a given size forming machine.

Abstract: A thin card-like housing that incorporates a retractable brush and other useful implements. The brush has a base with an outer edge from which bristles extend. The base includes a deflectable web portion having a rib extending through an actuation opening in the housing. Manual engagement of the rib is used to move the brush from an outwardly extended operative position to a retracted storage position within the housing. The web portion includes wedge parts that releasably engage detent structures inside the housing. The detent structures are positioned to correspond to the storage and operative positions of the brush. The housing interior also includes guide posts that extend through guide openings in the brush base to facilitate brush alignment and movement.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of polishing the surface of a film provided on a substrate, by use of a polishing device, while relatively moving the film surface and the polishing device. The method includes a position detecting step for detecting a predetermined position on the surface of the film, a first measurement step for measuring an absolute value of the film thickness at the predetermined position, and a second measurement step for measuring film thickness information of the film about the predetermined position, on the basis of a measured value obtained through the first measurement step. The method also includes a film thickness distribution measurement step for detecting a film thickness distribution of the film, on the basis of a data obtained through the first and second measurement steps, and a control step for controlling continuation/discontinuation of polishing, on the basis of a data obtained through the film thickness distribution measurement step.

Abstract: A wrench for engaging a faucet mounting nut, the wrench including an elongated tubular pipe which has slots at one end. A nut engaging socket, having radially projecting studs, is adapted for reversible insertion into the pipe opening, with the socket studs engaging the slots in the pipe. A variety of socket inserts, for engagement of a variety of nut sizes and shapes, is provided. Openings in the pipe, at the end opposite the socket engaging end, provide a means for a rod to be inserted into the pipe to facilitate pipe rotation. The elongated pipe, since it is hollow, can slide over a water supply line during mounting nut removal, thereby eliminating the requirement of first detaching the supply line.

Abstract: An installation tool for pre-assembled screw and plate assembles. The tool has magnetic areas in a plastic nose piece that enables the installer to use the tool to pick up a screw and plate assembly by the head and install the fastener. The tool can be used with pre-assembled screw and plate assembles that are laying on an insulation board with head up or down, as well as pre-assembled screw and plate assemblies that have been impaled or stuck into the insulation board.

Abstract: An apparatus to clean gold plated contact surfaces on printed circuit boards uses a printed circuit board guide and cleaning units in contact with the printed circuit board guide. A guide rail on the printed circuit board guide is adapted to guide the printed circuit board having contaminated gold plated contact surfaces. The cleaning units include grindstones to abrade the gold plated contact surfaces and rub off the contaminants. Embodiments are capable of achieving cleaning uniformity, reducing failure rate, and enhancing the quality of the products. The effectiveness of the invention permits operators to carry out other operations during the cleaning process. Practice of the present invention also provides improved operating conditions without problems such as those due to the presence of waste eraser particles.

Abstract: A screw feed and driver assembly which may constitute a part of a screw driving tool of the type having a prime mover, a speed and torque determining gear assembly and a clutch; which can constitute an accessory for a clutch containing manual feed power screw driver; and which, combined with a clutch, can comprise an accessory for a standard manual power drill. The screw feed and driver assembly comprises a feed housing with a slide body mounted therein and shiftable between forward and rearward positions. The slide body is biased to its forward position. The slide body receives a strip bearing screws. A contact foot is mounted on the slide body and shifts the slide body rearwardly when pressed against a workpiece. A screw driver, affixed to the clutch, extends into the slide body. The slide body contains a pawl and feed sprocket assembly. The sprocket engages notches in one edge of the screw bearing strip.

Abstract: A method is for the polishing of semiconductor wafers, which are mounted on a front side of a support plate and one side face of which is pressed anst a polishing plate, which is covered with a polishing cloth, with a specific polishing pressure and polished. A device is provided which is suitable for carrying out the method. The method includes a) applying a specific pressure to at least one of a plurality of pressure chambers prior to the polishing of the semiconductor wafers, and b) during the polishing of the semiconductor wafers, transmitting the polishing pressure to a rear side of the support plate via elastic bearing surfaces of the pressure chambers to which pressure has been applied.

Abstract: A ratchet wheel mounting arrangement in which a toothed arch block is mounted in a smoothly arched notch disposed inside a box end of a ratchet wrench. A smoothly arched notch extends axially to the topmost edge of the box end. The toothed arch block has one end disposed in contact with the arched notch. The other end of the arch block is supported on a spring in a blind hole in the arched notch. A toothed front side forced by the spring force into engagement with the ratchet wheel in the box end. The height of teeth of the toothed arch block is approximately equal to the height of teeth on the ratchet wheel.

Abstract: A powered gate valve wrench having a motor, a belt drive assembly coupled to the motor, a chain drive assembly coupled to the belt drive assembly and an output shaft attached to the chain drive assembly. The output shaft has two splined ends capable of receiving a socket attached thereon, which couples to a gate valve to transmit the rotational force of the motor to the gate valve. When coupled to the gate valve, each end of the shaft provides rotation in opposite directions. The entire assembly is mounted to a lightweight, compact housing for portability.

Abstract: A socket driver, and method of forming the same, is described in which longitudinal protuberances are provided on successive surfaces of the hexagonal cavity for receiving a bit driver. The protuberances create an interference fit with the driven end of the bit driver, the protuberances being so dimensioned that forceful insertion of the bit driver into the hexagonal cavity at least partially deflects the walls portions on which protuberances are formed to thereby slightly deflect the same. The resulting restoring forces create a spring action which semi-permanently secures the bit driver received within the socket driver.

Abstract: A ratchet wrench is provided that includes a link control structure in which the control rod slides smoothly in the D-head to control the ball that locks the joint with a socket or releases the joint. A new bolting joint structure between the D-head and the reversing disc is provided that consists of a straight segment at the front portion, as a guiding section, and a conic segment at the back portion, as a securing section of the threaded trunk, so that the bolt can be located at any desired position for adjustment, without the possibility of loosening. The reversing disc has a curved circular groove formed in the top surface thereof that conforms to human engineering principles.

Abstract: A ratcheting, open-end wrench concurrently engages more than half the corners of a nub during torquing. In preferred embodiments a wrench has a contacting cavity for receiving and torquing a nut, bolt head or other angularized nub. A chain carries a plurality of teeth about the inner perimeter of the cavity, and the chain is ratcheted so that the teeth move readily in one direction, but can be blocked from moving in the opposite direction. The teeth are arranged on the chain such that the cavity changes shape from an open configuration in which the nub can be received into the cavity, and a closed configuration in which the nub is locked into the cavity.

Abstract: A methodology for conducting magnetic float polishing of magnetic materials. This is accomplished by isolating the magnetic workpiece from any appreciable magnetic induction and subsequently polishing the magnetic workpiece utilizing the action of a magnetic buoyancy levitational force with conventional magnetic float polishing apparatus.

Abstract: A screwdriver has a handle provided with a spring-biased press block secured within a recess of the handle for movement towards and away from a bottom of the recess. The press block and bottom of the recess are each provided with cooperating wire clamping and terminal clamping bodies for respectively stripping insulation from the wire and securing a terminal to a stripped end of the wire.

Abstract: The present invention involves a wrench for tightening and loosening bolts, nuts and fasteners having n number of equal length outside working surfaces. The wrench has a handle and a working wrench head with an orifice which contains at least two pairs of flat inside working surfaces. The pairs of inside working surfaces are arranged about and equidistant from an imaginary central axis through the orifice, and the surfaces of each pair form a surface contact angle a with one another. Additionally, each pair of flat inside working surfaces having a first working surface with a predetermined angle C relative to the imaginary central axis and a second working surface with a predetermined angle D relative to the imaginary central axis, wherein the angle C and the angle D differ from one another, and whereby the first working surface of a given pair of inside working surfaces is non-parallel to the second working surface of an opposing pair of inside working surfaces.

Abstract: A hand held torque wrench with augmenting means is provided which includes a linkage assembly to join a drive input with an output wrench socket. The linkage assembly consists of a drive link extending from the input socket and coacting with a conversion link extending to a ratchet disposed about the output socket of the device. Rotation of the drive link pivots the conversion link to transfer torque from the input to the output socket. A pawl on the driven link is provided to coact with a ratchet which encircles the output socket. A guide means is disposed in the interior of the housing of the device to coact with the linkage assembly to maintain proper alignment during a torque operation, such that stress and force are substantially reduced or dissipated, if not eliminated, during the operation.

Abstract: For two-side processing of optical lenses, the invention provides that blanks to be used for each lens body (7) comprise a chucking extension (18) whereby a single machine is sufficient for implementing the procedure. In addition to workpiece spindles (1, 2) as well as tool spindles (4, 5) with coarse tools (8) and finishing tools (9), the machine also includes an unloading device (10) and a loading device (13) which in successive interacting operations take the lens body (7) when processed on one side and at the circumference from a chucking tool (12) of the tool spindle (1) and turn it round for centered insertion in its inverted position into a chucking tool (15) of the tool spindle (2) for processing on the other side. The workpiece spindles (1, 2) may be mounted parallel to each other on a horizontally displaceable and vertically adjustable feed slide (3). A feed carriage (6) may displace and slew the tool spindles (4, 5) together with the unloading device (10) around a horizontal B axis.