Abstract: Presently disclosed grip assemblies provide for a selectively removable and replaceable grip for a shaft. Such grip assemblies include a grip sleeve and a grip liner at least partially fixed to an inner grip surface of the grip sleeve. The grip liner is configured to expand as the grip sleeve and grip liner are positioned on the shaft. The grip liner includes a liner feature that engages a shaft feature, which may be integrally formed on the shaft, or may be formed on a shaft sheath on the shaft. Engagement of the liner feature with the shaft feature may align the grip sleeve to the shaft and may substantially prevent rotation of the grip sleeve with respect to the shaft once the grip sleeve is on the shaft. Presently disclosed grip sleeves may be selectively removed from the shaft without damaging the grip sleeve, and without requiring solvents or specialized tools.

Abstract: A tool system for use with an accessory tool including a mounting end, comprises an oscillating power tool and a handheld tool assembly. The oscillating power tool includes a first tool holder configured to connect to the mounting end of the accessory tool. The handheld tool assembly includes a second tool holder configured to connect to the mounting end of the accessory tool.

Abstract: A grout cleaning tool is provided. The grout cleaning tool includes a bracket head having a bottom surface. The present invention further includes a file sized to fit within a grout line of a tiled floor. The file is mounted to the bottom surface of the bracket head. The present invention may further include an elongated handle attached to the bracket head and extending away from the bottom surface. The elongated handle is sized so that the grout cleaning tool is used in a standing position by a user.

Abstract: A shingle removal shovel is disclosed that comprises of a rectangular blade with slots and teeth on its front and back edges. This shingle popper has a special blade structure having elongated protrusions on its bottom side. Said protrusions provide a front and a back pivoting points so that the popper can be properly levered for easy removal of shingles and nails. The present shingle popper also has a slanted top surface to push shingles up while the shovel is moved under the shingle. It also has foot pedestals to allow an operator to use his/her foot to push the blade underneath a shingle.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing accumulated leaves and other debris from an overhead gutter of a building or the like, said apparatus including a blade adapted to skim a substantial portion of the internal skirt of said gutter to which leaves and debris are accumulated therein, and an elongated handle having one end adapted to be held by a user at a remote end substantially perpendicular to said blade.

Abstract: A bagel scoop removes excess dough from a piece of baked goods, such as a bagel. The bagel scoop includes a handle, and a concave, preferably shallow elliptical spoon-shaped closed combined blade and scoop structure, having a downward curvature, to enable scooping and removal of dough. The outer distal end of the combined blade and scoop structure is preferably serrated, to allow for scraping and scooping of the bagel core dough at a leading edge of the blade. The combined blade and scoop structure is attached to a stem, which, in turn, is attached to the handle. A small auxiliary scraper is provided at an opposite end, for fine scraping and removing of excess dough residue not taken by the shallow elliptical spoon-shaped closed combined blade and scoop structure.

Abstract: An apparatus for opening packages having a handle with a shaft extending outwardly therefrom. A cutting member is connected to the shaft at an end opposite the handle. The cutting member is selectively positionable between a seal and a container and upon moving the cutting member along a length of the seal, the seal is removed from the container.

Abstract: A multifunctional molding name plate removal tool includes a blade attached to a blade retainer having a drive arm and a threaded handle attached thereto. The threaded handle may be removed in order to enable a pneumatic tool to drive the tool.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, the push-pull stripper-scraper comprises a single stripping blade and a quadruple-edged scraping blade. The stripping blade accommodates a sliding carrier plate which incorporates guide channels for sliding along the stripping blade. The carrier plate is adapted to retain the scraping blade, thus, the scraping blade moves in unison with the carrier plate as it shifts in position along the stripping blade. The carrier plate, stripping blade and scraping blade also include apertures through which a fastening means secures these respective components but which nevertheless selectively permits movement of the carrier plate along the stripping blade. Significantly, the device allows a user to switch between using the stripping blade and scraping blade, respectively, without changing tools. This is particularly advantageous when using the device in conjunction with an extension pole.

Abstract: A vertical hoe for removing unwanted plants from the ground with less effort than conventional tools. The vertical hoe includes a handle portion for the user to grasp onto and a blade portion for the removal of unwanted plants.

Abstract: A simple sturdy multiply adjustable hand scraper has a knurled cross handle mounted on a shaft and an obliquely mounted blade on the other end of the shaft, the handle being adjustably set at an angle relative to the blade.

Abstract: A scraper tool includes a handle with an axial shaft with a bend connecting the shaft to a parallel shaft extension that has a triangular carbide blade attached thereto. The tool may be manual gripped by both hands of an operator simultaneously for scraping cylinder blocks.

Abstract: A versatile hand-held garden tool for cultivating, digging, weeding, pruning and trimming has a blade, a handle and a neck angling upwards from the blade that connects the blade to the handle. The blade has a body portion that is preferably 5"-7" long and a tip portion angling upwards from the body portion that is preferably about 1 inch long. The body portion has two edges, one edge is serrated and the other edge is beveled. The tip portion has a beveled edge. It is preferred that the handle have a V-shaped cross section to facilitate the mounting of a grip. The garden tool can be made by cutting a blank from a web of cold rolled steel having a thickness of about 0.075 inches, coining the beveled edges into the blank, and forming the tool by bending the blank. It is then preferred to heat treat and plate the cold rolled steel.

Abstract: A scraper for removing deposits from an interior of a chimney. The inventive device includes an elongated handle having a scraping plate attached to a lower end thereof for engaging and scraping the interior surfaces of the chimney. The scraping plate can be rectangular, semi-circular, or quarter-round in shape so as to accommodate a plurality of disparate chimney interior shapes.

Abstract: A tool having a base plate for sliding along a roadway surface and defining slots extending rearwardly from a forward edge of the base plate. Each slot has parallel wall surfaces between which a flexible tab to be cut is received and held upright until a cutting edge, at the slot end, severs the tab at roadway surface level. Side walls and a rear wall on the base plate confine severed tabs on the base plate until tab discharge into a receptacle. Blade surfaces on the base plate are inclined downwardly and forwardly. A closure, on a modified form of the tool, may swing open to admit a tab being severed and thereafter close to prevent loss of severed tabs from the tool. A pivotally mounted handle facilitates sliding of the tool along a roadway in surface contact with same. A discharge opening in the rear wall of the modified tool facilitates tab discharge into a receptacle.

Abstract: A scraper-hammer tool. The tool has an essentially square-shaped four-blade scraper blade with two blades pointing upward and two blades pointing downward and a steel nob having the general shape of a roughly cylindrical hammerhead having a bolt socket in its base end. A single bolt holds the scraper blade and the nob onto the body of the scraper-hammer tool which includes a handle. With the blade in one direction the tool is a scraper. Turning the tool over turns it into a hammer to drive in nails which may be encountered on surfaces being scraped.

Abstract: A roofer's tool for stripping shingles from the roof of a building; the tool including a blade attached to a straight handle by a mounting bracket whereas the mounting bracket includes a section attached to the end of the handle and a fulcrum portion extending backwardly from the handle while a flat attaching section protrudes forwardly from the lower end of the handle and where the blade has a row of operative teeth along a front edge thereof whereby the tool can be manually forced under a layer of shingles and an effective prying action upwardly on the shingles from their lower surfaces can be provided by pivoting the tool around a fulcrum section of the mounting bracket. Also the blade is removably attached to a portion of the mounting bracket by mounting members which are readily accessible and are protected against damage in use of the tool.

Abstract: My invention comprises a powered apparatus for detaching and stripping shingles from a building roof and may be used in any direction. A shovel-like device with a blade with nail body engagement slots at the front end and powered means to lower and raise the blade is mounted on a frame. When the blade is in the lowered position, it is moved under the shingles. Then the blade is raised to exert leverage and to detach the shingles while the slots in the blade engage nail bodies, press upward against the nail heads and pull out the nails. As the apparatus is rocked in a forward direction, the shingles, with the nails attached, are stripped by the blade and pushed off the roof or stacked in a pile. My invention can be operated by unskilled personnel in any bodily position and makes a slow, difficult and tiresome job easy by exerting substantial leverage sufficient to remove many layers of shingles.

Abstract: A hand tool for deburring or chamfering a work piece, of the kind comprising: a mount, a handle solid with the mount, a cutting tool adjustably secured to the mount so as to present a cutting edge substantially perpendicular to the handle and the mount, and a bearing member, characterized in that the bearing member is mounted adjacent the cutting tool and is provided with two side faces defining therebetween an angle of 45.degree. to bear on the respective sides of the edge of the work piece, the bearing member having at least one fulcrum, an imaginary line joining the fulcrum with the cutting edge being inclined relative to the axis of the handle by an angle in the range of 8.degree. to 16.degree..

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel and improved tool for removing worn and cracked grout from between floor, wall and ceiling tiles in a rapid and efficient manner whereby damage to the tiles is reduced to a minimum.In accordance with one form of the invention novel means is provided for limiting the depth of penetration of the tool in the grout and between the adjacent tiles and in another form of the invention novel means is provided whereby the grout removing portion of the tool may be readily changed to provide a tool adapted for work requiring blade means of different sizes and having different grout removing characteristics.

Abstract: A corner beading cleaner usable to shape hardened joint compound adjacent convex corner beadings including a body which defines a handle area and a lip area extending outwardly from the handle area, the lip having a securement device attached thereto being adapted to detachably secure a tool means with respect to the handle area, the tool means including two blade edges defining a blade cutting surface of less than 90 degrees in order to smooth the joint compound between the bead of the convex beading member and the surrounding joint compound area, the corner beading cleaner securement device including a clamping plate extending laterally across the lip such as to secure the tool between the clamping plate and the lip when the clamping plate is secured with respect to the lip, the clamping plate further possibly including ears extending downwardly from the lateral sides thereof to prevent lateral dislodgement of the tool.

Abstract: A thin rectangular blade of flat configuration has its two longer edges rolled or burnished to form alternatively usable sharpened edges. The blade is held in a structure which includes a handle having a concave surface against which the blade is adapted to be clamped by a convex clamping member in order to end the initially flat blade into an arcuate configuration such that the exposed scrapping edge is curved in order to reduce the likelihood that its edge portions will gouge a workpiece or the like. The blade is oriented at an angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle, and the radius of curvature of the bent blade is approximately twice the length of its longer edges. A screw fastener holds the clamping member to the handle and clearance is provided for the reserve, or unused scraper edge of the blade when the blade is so clamped.

Abstract: A hand-held mechanized electrically heated windshield cleaner for removing snow, ice and other material from a motor vehicle windshield includes a hollow pistol-like housing having a gripping portion and a barrel portion extending at right angles thereto. A bearing member at the front of the barrel portion slidably supports an outwardly extending driving shaft. A scraper blade of resilient rubber-like material is secured to the outer end of the shaft. An electric motor in the gripping portion reciprocatingly drives the shaft through an arrangement including a disk rotated by the motor and eccentrically connected to the shaft by means of a connecting rod. An electric heating coil is provided in the blade adjacent the edge thereof. The heating coil and motor are energized by an electric cable adapted to be plugged into the vehicle cigarette lighter socket.