Pivotal Or Rockable Pawl Patents (Class 269/193)
  • Patent number: 10414029
    Abstract: A wrench including a ratchet and first and second pawls in an end of the wrench. The ratchet having a first array of gripping members, the first pawl having a second array of gripping members, and the second pawl having a third array of gripping members. The second array of gripping members of the first pawl offset relative to the third array of gripping members of the second pawl, and the offset about doubling a pitch of the first array of gripping members of the ratchet to decrease a rotation of the wrench by about half. Each array of the first, second and third arrays of the gripping members having a first curvilinear surface in a first direction and a second curvilinear surface in a second direction different than the first direction to maximize a gripping surface area and increase an amount of torque the wrench may apply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Tribus Innovations, LLC
    Inventors: Tommy Mills, Jay Ayala, Kendall Bertagnole