Patents by Inventor Lucas Taylor
Lucas Taylor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11801563Abstract: A tool for engaging drive flanks of a threaded nut has a tool body with a central cavity. Cam surfaces are formed in an inner wall of the central cavity. A retainer secured within the central cavity has an outward-facing slot. A jaw for each of the cam surfaces has a curved outer side in contact with one of the cam surfaces and a drive surface on an inner side for engaging one of the drive flanks of the nut. A foot extends inward from a lower end of each of the jaws into the slot to retain the jaws within the central cavity. Rotating the tool body relative to the jaws moves the drive surfaces of the jaws from a retracted position to a gripping position in engagement with the drive flanks of the nut.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: ToolTech, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor, Christopher Aho
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Patent number: 11707821Abstract: A tool for unscrewing a stud has a body with cam surfaces in a bore. A recess extends through the cam surfaces. Jaws have outer sides in engagement with one of the cam surfaces and inner sides containing teeth. An outward protruding rib on the outer side of each of the jaws inserts into the recess. Rotation of the body in a first direction causes the cam surfaces to slide in the first direction along the outer sides of the jaws, pushing the jaws to a gripping position. Rotation of the body in a second direction causes the cam surfaces to slide in the second direction along the outer sides of the jaws, enabling the jaws to move to a retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: ToolTech, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor, Christopher Aho
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Publication number: 20220063003Abstract: A tool for engaging drive flanks of a threaded nut has a tool body with a central cavity. Cam surfaces are formed in an inner wall of the central cavity. A retainer secured within the central cavity has an outward-facing slot. A jaw for each of the cam surfaces has a curved outer side in contact with one of the cam surfaces and a drive surface on an inner side for engaging one of the drive flanks of the nut. A foot extends inward from a lower end of each of the jaws into the slot to retain the jaws within the central cavity. Rotating the tool body relative to the jaws moves the drive surfaces of the jaws from a retracted position to a gripping position in engagement with the drive flanks of the nut.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: ToolTech, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor, Christopher Aho
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Publication number: 20210339363Abstract: A tool for unscrewing a stud has a body with cam surfaces in a bore. A recess extends through the cam surfaces. Jaws have outer sides in engagement with one of the cam surfaces and inner sides containing teeth. An outward protruding rib on the outer side of each of the jaws inserts into the recess. Rotation of the body in a first direction causes the cam surfaces to slide in the first direction along the outer sides of the jaws, pushing the jaws to a gripping position. Rotation of the body in a second direction causes the cam surfaces to slide in the second direction along the outer sides of the jaws, enabling the jaws to move to a retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: ToolTech, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor, Christopher Aho
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Patent number: 10596684Abstract: A tool has a body with an axially extending cavity containing partly cylindrical receptacles. Each receptacle has an opening facing inward toward the axis. A partly cylindrical cam portion of a jaw fits within each of the receptacles. Each jaw has a workpiece engaging portion protruding from the body. Each of the cam portions has a pair of flat flanks that protrude inward from the opening of one of the receptacles. The flat flanks intersect each other at an inner corner. Each flank abuts one of the flanks of another of the cam members. Each of the engaging portions has an outer surface configured to engage a hole within the workpiece. An increment of rotation of the body relative to the jaws causes the inner corners of the flanks to move outward from the axis and the outer surfaces of the engaging portions to move from a contracted position to an expanded position.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: ToolTech, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor
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Patent number: 10030380Abstract: A concrete anchor has a body with cam surfaces. Each of the cam surfaces curves outward from a first edge to a second edge. The cam surfaces have a circumscribed outer diameter that increases in a downward direction. Jaws are retained around the body, each of the jaws having an inner side in engagement with one of the cam surfaces. Each of the jaws decreases in radial thickness in a downward direction. Cam ratchet teeth on each of the cam surfaces engage jaw ratchet teeth on the inner side of each of the jaws. The jaw ratchet teeth ratchet over the cam ratchet teeth as the body rotates in a first direction to move the jaws from a contracted position to an expanded position. The engagement of the cam and jaw ratchet teeth prevent rotation of the body relative to the jaws in the opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: TOOLTECH, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor
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Publication number: 20170291285Abstract: A tool has a body with an axially extending cavity containing partly cylindrical receptacles. Each receptacle has an opening facing inward toward the axis. A partly cylindrical cam portion of a jaw fits within each of the receptacles. Each jaw has a workpiece engaging portion protruding from the body. Each of the cam portions has a pair of flat flanks that protrude inward from the opening of one of the receptacles. The flat flanks intersect each other at an inner corner. Each flank abuts one of the flanks of another of the cam members. Each of the engaging portions has an outer surface configured to engage a hole within the workpiece. An increment of rotation of the body relative to the jaws causes the inner corners of the flanks to move outward from the axis and the outer surfaces of the engaging portions to move from a contracted position to an expanded position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2017Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: ToolTech, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor
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Publication number: 20170145684Abstract: A concrete anchor has a body with cam surfaces. Each of the cam surfaces curves outward from a first edge to a second edge. The cam surfaces have a circumscribed outer diameter that increases in a downward direction. Jaws are retained around the body, each of the jaws having an inner side in engagement with one of the cam surfaces. Each of the jaws decreases in radial thickness in a downward direction. Cam ratchet teeth on each of the cam surfaces engage jaw ratchet teeth on the inner side of each of the jaws. The jaw ratchet teeth ratchet over the cam ratchet teeth as the body rotates in a first direction to move the jaws from a contracted position to an expanded position. The engagement of the cam and jaw ratchet teeth prevent rotation of the body relative to the jaws in the opposite direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: ToolTech, LLCInventors: Jake Merrick, Lucas Taylor
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Patent number: 9125461Abstract: A necklace that contains a gear assembly within a housing where gears of the gear assembly are rotated by a driving component. The driving component is a necklace chain where the chain, for example is a ball chain or a box chain that passes through openings in a housing wall and is configured to physically rotate gears.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2013Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Kinekt Design, LLCInventors: Rachel Liberman, Julie Liberman, Lucas Taylor
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Publication number: 20140212856Abstract: A necklace that contains a gear assembly within a housing where gears of the gear assembly are rotated by a driving component. The driving component is a necklace chain where the chain, for example is a ball chain or a box chain that passes through openings in a housing wall and is configured to physically rotate gears.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: Kinekt Design, LLCInventors: Rachel Liberman, Julie Liberman, Lucas Taylor
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Patent number: D666116Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Kinekt Design, LLCInventors: Rachel Liberman, Julie Liberman, Lucas Taylor
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Patent number: D850318Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Kinekt DesignInventors: Glen Liberman, Rachel Liberman, Lucas Taylor