With Screwdriver Patents (Class 7/165)
  • Patent number: 7337486
    Abstract: A hand tool is provided that includes a handle and one or more implements that are movable relative to the handle. The hand tool may include a first implement that is rotatable within a plane and a second implement that is slidable along an axis that may also lie within that same plane. The implements may include a variety of tools or blades, such as knife blades and cutting hooks. The hand tool may also include locks and/or catches to bias or lock one or more of the implements in retracted and extended positions. The handle may define a groove or other recess for holding an instrument such as a sharpening tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Hollan Akio Tsuda, Nathan E. Knight, Melissa C. Yale, Charles F. Goodrich, III
  • Patent number: 7334970
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming apertures and inserting fasteners in a workpiece is disclosed. One embodiment relates generally to a bit holder device for forming apertures and inserting fasteners into a workpiece. This embodiment comprises a tool bit, a hex holder member, an adapter hex member, a double collet member, a collet retention cap and a drill bit. The drill bit is capable of drilling an aperture into a workpiece whereupon the drill bit, the collet retention cap, the double collet member and the adapter hex member are removed from the hex holder member thereby, allowing the tool bit to forcibly insert a fastener into the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Eazypower Corporation
    Inventor: Ira M. Kozak
  • Patent number: 7296366
    Abstract: An assembly of a tape measure and a screwdriver includes a tape measure having a case, a ruler received in the case, an outlet being defined in the bottom of one side of the case for extension of the ruler, a receiving chamber being defined in one surface of the case and extending to an edge of the case, a pressing unit being disposed at one side of the case; and a screwdriver mechanism movably disposed in the receiving chamber of the case, the screwdriver mechanism having a positioning unit corresponding to the pressing unit. Thus, the assembly has functions of a tape measure and a screwdriver for easy use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Top-Long Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ping-Lin Lin
  • Patent number: 7293312
    Abstract: A compact multipurpose tool including a bit head, a hollow first cylinder that defines a plurality of open-end wrenches on one end, and a second cylinder that communicates with the bit head and can be at least partially housed within the hollow first cylinder. In further features the hollow first cylinder defines a socket on the end opposite the plurality of open-end wrenches and the second cylinder includes a plurality of sockets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Inventor: Erik Vaclav Chmelar
  • Patent number: 7254856
    Abstract: A carabiner tool assembly is provided. The tool assembly comprises in one embodiment a body portion for storing a tool having a longitudinal length and a carabiner assembly. The body portion comprises an outside shell forming an interior chamber and an opening extending through the outside shell through to the interior chamber, the opening being sized to be only slightly larger than needed to pass the tool through in a direction along the longitudinal length of the tool. The carabiner assembly comprises a first leg having a selectively openable gate assembly, the first leg extending from a first section of the body portion. A second leg extends from a second section of the body portion and a third leg extends between and connects the first and second legs, wherein the first, second and third legs of the carabiner assembly define another opening. The carabiner assembly can also have only two legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Forever Green Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Goldberg
  • Patent number: 7249543
    Abstract: A pocket screwdriver has an oval body portion having a hole through the width of the body portion for holding a first double-ended screwdriver bit and a shaft portion having a hole for holding a second double-ended screwdriver bit. The bits can be interchanged by removing the bit from the shaft and using it to push out the bit from the body portion. The wide body portion enables the user to more easily use the screwdriver, while the hole in the body portion allows an additional screwdriver bit to be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Advantek Marketing, Inc.
    Inventor: Joe Pomerantz
  • Patent number: 7237987
    Abstract: A tool adapted to be coupled to a power drill includes a multi-component bit mounted to reverse positions so that in one position its drill element drills a hole and in another position its driver element drives in a fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Alltrade Tools LLC
    Inventors: Hector Ray Hernandez, Jr., Jaime Nash
  • Patent number: 7225490
    Abstract: A multi-functional wire stripper includes a fixing element, a movable element, a wire-stripping module, an electrical sensor, and a flexible element. There is a fixing sleeve on the front end of the fixing element for installing a tool module. The movable element is installed at the fixing element. The wire-stripping module is installed between the fixing element and the movable element. The electrical sensor is installed at the fixing element. The flexible element is installed between the fixing element and the movable element. Thereby, the wire stripper is capable of stripping the insulating layer off electrical cords and cutting electrical cords. The wire stripper is easy to operate, and reduces the time taken to perform such an action. The quantity of tools required by a workman are therefore reduced. If an electrical device leaks electricity, the wire stripper can inform the user thereby preventing them receiving an electrical shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Inventor: Chao-Chin Yen
  • Patent number: 7185569
    Abstract: A folding multipurpose hand tool including a pivoted latch that engages side walls of a handle and a base of a folding tool member to hold the folding tool member in a selection position. A separate safety interlock latch keeps a folding blade stowed in a handle when another tool is moved from a first position with respect to the handle. A tool bit holder securely holds and drives reduced thickness tool bits that can also be engaged in and driven by conventional sockets having a regular hexagonal shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2007
    Assignee: Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Knight, Benjamin C. Rivera
  • Patent number: 7182002
    Abstract: A screwdriver handle structure includes a handle having a storage compartment. The compartment comprises a number recesses to store screw heads therein. The handle is provided with a locator having a trough to receive an engaging device therein. The handle further comprises sliding sections to secure a sliding cover thereon in order to store screw heads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Inventor: Hung-ming Hu
  • Patent number: 7127766
    Abstract: A skateboard tool includes a multi-armed body, where four of the arms extend generally in a cross and a fifth arm extends generally perpendicular to a connection between the four arms and is elongated to serve as handle, two of said four arms and the fifth arm include ends formed with sockets therein, a third of the four arms has an end which includes a threading tool and a fourth arm of the four arms has an end which includes a bearing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Inventor: Christopher L. Carter
  • Patent number: 7114825
    Abstract: The invention is a multiple function tool for use with computer systems made of a housing having a cover plate and a back plate connected by a plurality of rivets, as a unit, a plurality of implements connected to a housing, wherein the plurality of implements include a flashlight, a chip puller, a first screwdriver having a small Phillips head, a second screwdriver forming a small flat head, a continuity tester with an indicator light, a wire stripper, a crimper, and a laptop case cracker, wherein the plurality of implements are pivotably coupled to the plurality of rivets and the flashlight is positioned on the cover plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Inventor: Evan George Bauman
  • Patent number: 7111349
    Abstract: A carabiner tool assembly is provided. The tool assembly comprises in one embodiment a body portion for storing a tool having a longitudinal length and a carabiner assembly. The body portion comprises an outside shell forming an interior chamber and an opening extending through the outside shell through to the interior chamber, the opening being sized to be only slightly larger than needed to pass the tool through in a direction along the longitudinal length of the tool. The carabiner assembly comprises a first leg having a selectively openable gate assembly, the first leg extending from a first section of the body portion. A second leg extends from a second section of the body portion and a third leg extends between and connects the first and second legs, wherein the first, second and third legs of the carabiner assembly define another opening. The carabiner assembly can also have only two legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Forever Green Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Edward Goldberg
  • Patent number: 7111533
    Abstract: A multiple bit screwdriver comprising a plurality of tool bits, an elongate member defining an axial passage adapted to receive said bits therein positioned tip to end so that the foremost bit operably extends from the passage and is rotatable with the elongate member, first and second retainers connected to the elongate member near each end of the passage and extending radially inward into the passage to engage frictionally the foremost and last bits to prevent said bits from falling out of either end, and a motion restricting member within the passage having an expandable engagement portion that cooperates with at least one tool bit to permit the movement of bits within the passage in one direction only. The engagement portion is expandable in response a tool bit being pushed therethrough in one direction, but resists expanding when a tool bit is being pushed in the opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Inventor: Yaar Ran
  • Patent number: 7089619
    Abstract: A multipurpose tool includes a plurality of elongate handles and a plurality of jaw members pivotally connected to same. A plurality of locking mechanisms are disposed adjacent one opposed end portion of the plurality of handles respectively and preferably include a guide tube and a sliding member including an elongate lower portion selectively movable within the guide tube. A spring member is disposed about the elongate lower portion and limits the movement of the sliding member between relaxed and stretched positions so that plurality of auxiliary tools can be moved between corresponding locked and unlocked positions respectively. A punch tool is removably engageable with the plurality of jaw members and includes a chuck for cutting wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Inventor: Shawn R. Smith
  • Patent number: 7086109
    Abstract: A screwdriver is equipped with a striking surface. The striking surface is partially embedded within the screwdriver handle and includes an exposed face portion which is offset from a longitudinal axis. A shank protrudes from the handle along the longitudinal axis and includes a receiving end for a bit. The screwdriver functions as both a screwdriver and a hammer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: The Faucet Queens, Inc.
    Inventors: Kathleen Fisher, Jeffrey A. DeBoer, Michael Nellenbach
  • Patent number: 7082636
    Abstract: A bladed spoke wrench device used to retain the orientation of a bladed bicycle spoke to prevent unnecessary torsional displacements from being applied to the spoke during spoke tensioning and adjustment. The bladed spoke wrench includes two spoke retention slots of different widths to accommodate the most common bladed spoke thicknesses. The spoke retention slots extend both through the thickness of the tool on both sides and along one face of the tool, allowing the user to orient the tool in any of several ways that the user finds comfortable and efficient during use. The tool also includes one or more hook shaped areas that are adapted to open a bottle and further includes an opening at one end that defines a ring useful for attachment of the bladed spoke wrench to a peg on a tool board, a key ring or other hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Trek Bicycle Corporation
    Inventors: Damon Rinard, David Blomme, Jeffrey Bogstad
  • Patent number: 7077540
    Abstract: An emergency light set is disclosed to include a bottom cover shell covered with a top cover shell, a lamp mounted in the front side of the bottom cover shell, a mini power generator mounted in the bottom cover shell and electrically connected to the lamp, a rechargeable battery for providing electricity to the lamp, a transmission gear set, and a tool handle detachably mounted in the top cover shell and connectable to the input shaft of the transmission gear set for operation by the user to rotate the transmission gear set and to further drive the mini power generator to generate electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Jen-Yen Yen
  • Patent number: 7039975
    Abstract: A tool includes a longer handle member having a passage formed in a stem, a cover detachably attached to the longer handle member, a telescopic tool device detachably attached to the cover and engaging through and extendible out of the passage of the stem and having a magnetic element for attracting fasteners. A shorter handle member is detachably attached to the longer handle member, and a ratchet tool mechanism is detachably coupled to the shorter handle member for being driven by the shorter handle member. A magnetic securing device may secure the handle members together. A tool holder may be received in the longer handle member for receiving tool members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Inventor: Youn Chyuan Liao
  • Patent number: 7013516
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a hammer having a number of accessories including a storage cavity adapted to efficiently and conveniently hold tools, supplies, and the like and/or an additional number of accessories. The hammer comprises a hammer head having a front portion adapted for striking a nail or a tack, and a handle having a longitudinal extending cavity therein. A tray tailored to fit and slide within the longitudinal extending cavity is provided and is adapted to support a plurality of accessories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Ready Products, Inc.
    Inventor: David L. Peters
  • Patent number: 6978504
    Abstract: A multifunctional hand tool is disclosed having multiple tool components for use to service and repair sprinkler and irrigation systems. The hand tool includes eight tool implements positioned on four reversible tool couplings. Each one of the four tool couplings are received by an end of one of two reversible servant couplings. The two servant couplings are each received by an end of a master coupling. The master coupling is received by a threaded insert. The insert is then received by a handle. The handle includes a retractable rotary head key for extracting a rotary sprinkler head, a releasable clamp, and a sprinkler nozzle adjustment mechanism for adjusting the spray pattern of a sprinkler nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Orbit Irrigation Products
    Inventors: Alan John Smith, Michael Ray Ericksen, Rodger Leroy Fulwider
  • Patent number: 6954958
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a multi-use broad bladed knife is provided. The multi-use knife includes a broad blade, such as commonly used to apply spackle to a wall or other surface. The broad blade is attached to a handle, with a striking surface comprised of an appropriate hard material on the heel of the handle. Within the handle are slidably extendable and retractable implements, including a cutting edge and a screwdriver implement. The cutting edge and screwdriver implement may be extended through the heel of the handle through slits using buttons. The screwdriver implement and cutting edge may lock into place when extended for use and may also lock in place when retracted within the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Inventor: Shawn Stubbs
  • Patent number: 6952853
    Abstract: A screw driving device (2) for a hand tool drilling device (1) includes a screw magazine (3) for successive feeding of screws or bolts (4), a feeder block (6) that can be axially displaced against the force of a feeder spring (5), which at least partially supplies screws (4) during the back and forth reciprocating movement of the feeder block (6), and a driving tool (8) that can be coupled rotationally in form locked manner with a screw head (7), wherein the driving tool (8) axially moveably receives a rotatingly driven drilling tool (9) in a coaxial hollow inner space and is spring biased axially by a clutch spring (10) relative to the screw driving device in a rotation driver position X, in which a drilling tool tip (11) is axially spaced from the screw head (7) and is coupled rotationally form locked with the driving tool (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2005
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Horst Rahmsdorf, Gerd Daubinger, Felix Ferlemann
  • Patent number: 6916106
    Abstract: A cylindrical repair tool has each end configured as a handle, with each handle being separable from one another. One handles is provided with a shaft with a wrench, that, when fully extended, can pivot 90°. At least two diametrically opposed LEDs are arranged on each side of the aperture. On the side of this one handle, hex wrenches and a screw driver can be magnetically held or stored parallel to the shaft central axis. The other handle of the tubular repair tool is a two-part casing that can pivot open to allow access to a variety of tools pivotally mounted inside the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Acumen, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhou Xingguo
  • Patent number: 6874791
    Abstract: A chuck apparatus is provided for holding a tool bit. The tool bit includes a drill, two blades, another working head and an annular groove defined therein. The chuck apparatus includes a socket, a ball detent, a collar and a joint. The socket defines an axial hole, a peripheral hole communicated with the axial hole and two slots for receiving the blades. The ball detent is put in the peripheral hole for insertion in the annular groove. The collar is movably mounted on the socket between a locking position for pushing the ball detent into the annular groove and a releasing position for allowing the ball detent to leave the annular groove. The joint includes a first section secured to the socket and a second section for connection with a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Inventors: Tsai-Ching Chen, Chiu-Man Chang-Kao
  • Patent number: 6868572
    Abstract: The invention provides a bit (10) for use with a rotatable tool, said bit including: a shaft (12) having a rearward end adapted to be held by a chuck of the rotatable tool, and a forward end (18) having cutting tips formed thereon; a reaming head (14) including a body having a bore (16) adapted to receive the shaft therethrough in a sliding fit, the body having a plurality of cutting blades (26) formed on at least one peripheral surface thereof; the bore and/or the shaft having formations thereon such that when the rearing head has the shaft operatively located in the bore the reaming head is rotationally locked into the shaft; the reaming head and the shaft being separable from each other to allow either component to be replaced independently of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2005
    Assignee: Savetime Products Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: John Edgley Newton
  • Patent number: 6865760
    Abstract: A tool holder containing at least one service tool for servicing a power-operated device. The tool holder is permanently attached to a retractable pull cord incorporated into a manual starter of a power-operated device. The service tool or tools are pivotally mounted on the tool holder, allowing the service tool or tools to be folded out for servicing the power operated device and subsequently folded in and stowed compactly within the main body of the tool holder. The tool holder may include a mechanism for reducing the recoil of the manual starter. A cord locking means secures the retractable pull cord of the manual starter in a retracted state. The cord locking means affords a range of mobility to the tool holder, permitting the tool holder and service tools thereon to be easily used to service a power-operated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Inventor: Michael J. Oberndorfer
  • Patent number: 6807699
    Abstract: The function of a clenched heavy duty staple removal from closure flaps of a cardboard container is added by a structural modification of a hooking configuration machined in the distal end of a screwdriver and a modification in the mode of use thereof in which a clenched staple end is engaged by being hooked and remains thusly engaged during an applied pulling force which unclenches the opposite staple end so that the staple ends simultaneously completely disengage to obviate only partial disengagement as now frequently occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Inventor: Harold Michelman
  • Patent number: 6808182
    Abstract: A chuck device includes a body having a slot in a first end thereof and a hole is defined radially in the body and communicates with the slot. A spring is mounted to the body and is biased between a stepped shoulder on the body and a movable clamp connected to the body. A connection rod is connected to a second end of the body. A positioning pin is movably inserted in the hole and an end of the positioning pin extends from the hole and has a tapered periphery. A sleeve is slidably mounted to the body and has a first tapered inner periphery for being matched with the tapered periphery of the positioning pin. A second tapered inner periphery is defined in a second end of the sleeve so as to push the movable clamp when sliding the sleeve by compressing the spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Zangzhou I Con Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ying-Mo Lin
  • Patent number: 6769147
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a multi-use broad bladed knife is provided. The multi-use knife includes a broad blade, such as commonly used to apply spackle to a wall or other surface. The broad blade is attached to a handle, with a striking surface comprised of an appropriate hard material on the heel of the handle. Within the handle are slideably extendable and retractable implements, including a cutting edge and a screwdriver implement. The cutting edge and screwdriver implement may be extended through the heel of the handle through slits using buttons. The screwdriver implement and cutting edge may lock into place when extended for use and may also lock in place when retracted within the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Inventor: Shawn Stubbs
  • Publication number: 20040123397
    Abstract: The function of a clenched heavy duty staple removal from closure flaps of a cardboard container is added by a structural modification of a hooking configuration machined in the distal end of a screwdriver and a modification in the mode of use thereof in which a clenched staple end is engaged by being hooked and remains thusly engaged during an applied pulling force which unclenches the opposite staple end so that the staple ends simultaneously completely disengage to obviate only partial disengagement as now frequently occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventor: Harold Michelman
  • Publication number: 20040111804
    Abstract: A tool structure having drilling, chamfering and locking functions includes a quick clamping head, and a tool mounted on the quick clamping head. The tool has a first end formed with a chamfered portion and a drilling head secured on the chamfered portion, and a second end formed with a locking portion. Thus, the tool co-operates with the quick clamping head to perform the locking, chamfering and drilling work, thereby facilitating the user operating the tool, and thereby enhancing the working efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventors: Wei-Chuan Fan-Chiang, Mu-Mau Tseng, Shih-Yueh Chen
  • Publication number: 20040096286
    Abstract: A reversible drill/driver tool includes an elongated socket having a bifurcated part defining a tool-receiving space to receive a two-ended tool that includes first and second driving bits and a rod having two opposite ends connected respectively to the first and second driving bits, and pivoted to the bifurcated part so as to be rotatable relative to the socket and so as to dispose a selected one of the first and second driving bits outwardly of the space. A positioning member is slidable on the socket to position the rod at a desired position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventor: Chieh-Jen Hsiao
  • Publication number: 20040093677
    Abstract: A power operater “golf-maid” golfshoe cleat cleaning tool. Having a rotating brush connected by a steel hexgon shaft on one end of the brush and two pins on the forward end, to be used to remove and or replace the leats quicker and eaiser than the existing equipment. The “golf-maid” can also be used by the golfer after he is through playing to clean his shoes before placing them in his vehicle. In order to keep the vehicle clean, the “golf-maid” is battery operated and can be carried in the golfers bag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventor: Robert F. Zales
  • Patent number: 6725486
    Abstract: A pipe fitting tool is configured to aid a user in performing tasks frequently encountered by a pipe fitter or similar tradesman. The tool includes adjustable pliers, such as arc joint adjustable pliers, with a cutting portion for cutting and optionally stripping wire, and an impact surface for performing minor adjustments to hardware, such as adjusting the position of an object. One handle of the tool includes a prying/wedging portion and another handle of the tool includes a drive bit receiver. Molded hand grips may be provided on the handles and may include one or more receptacles for storing drive bits when not in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2004
    Assignee: Oka Tool Company
    Inventor: Thomas J. Oka
  • Patent number: 6705183
    Abstract: A 4-in-1 tool is disclosed. The tool has an elongate handle having a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal bore. A first socket longitudinally extends from the first end, while a second socket longitudinally extends from the second end. The first socket has a different size than the second socket. An elongated shank is disposed in the longitudinal bore of the handle, and the shank moves within the longitudinal bore. The shank has a screwdriver bit at one end and a security wrench at an opposite end. The security wrench is for engaging a fastener at a demarcation point of a telecommunications network. The elongated shank has at least a first position and a second position. The first position outwardly extends the screwdriver bit beyond the first socket, and the second position outwardly extends the security wrench beyond the second socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property Corporation
    Inventor: James E. Dickens
  • Patent number: 6688611
    Abstract: A removable chuck has a chuck member for holding a drill bit. Also, a mechanism is coupled with the chuck body to retain the chuck body to a drill spindle. The retention mechanism, in a first position, has at least one biased blade, in a non-biased condition, retaining the chuck on the drill spindle and in a second position, with the at least one biased blade in a biased condition, the chuck is enabled to be removed from the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Gifford, Richard J. Heavel, Alfred H. Judge, Thomas T. Bludis, Gavin K F Ng, Peter L K Woo
  • Patent number: 6679142
    Abstract: A spoke wrench for a bicycle comprises a body, at least two driving members and a screwdriver bit. The body includes a driving seat having a slide way formed therein. A slot way is integrally formed on the body. The body has at least one depression for engaging with the driving member. A positioning portion which is integrally formed with the body has a receiving chamber, a opening is formed through the positioning portion for communicating with the receiving chamber, a steel ball is then retractably defined in the opening of the positioning portion. At least two driving members are detachably received in the slide way of the driving seat and the depressions of the body. A screwdriver bit is detachably received in the receiving chamber of the positioning portion of the body for engaging with a workpiece to tighten or loosen it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Inventor: Shyh-Jye Lin
  • Patent number: 6675419
    Abstract: A folding multipurpose tool includes removable tweezers. The tweezers have a pair of opposed legs that are hooked over a pin extending through a tool storage pocket in a handle of the tool. The tweezers can pivot about said pin between a folded position within said pocket and an extended position outside of said pocket. One of the legs is thicker than the other and unable to pass through a passageway between the pin and the floor of the tool pocket. When the tweezers are in the extended position one of the legs may be slid into the pocket, disengaging the tweezers from the pin and enables the tweezer to be lifted out of the pocket. A generic implement with a hooked shaped base may be removed from a tool pocket in a similar manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin C. Rivera
  • Patent number: 6675420
    Abstract: A cutting device for a tool, in particular also a screwdriver, has a clamping piece attachment for slipping onto a shaft of for example a screwdriver until it locks, and wherein an actuating lever provided with a cutting edge for cutting electrical cables or lines is pivotally supported at the clamping piece attachment, so that the actuating lever and/or the clamping piece attachment is able to cut an electrical cable or line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Christian Heggemann, Armin Herzog
  • Patent number: 6662521
    Abstract: A multipurpose drywall tool comprising a blade attached to the front end of a handle in which the rear corner end of the handle is attached to opposing rounded hardened hammer members. Also attached to the distal end of the handle is attached an engaging means disposed within a orifice in the distal end of the handle. The engaging means for disengagably engaging a screwdriver bit. One preferred configuration of the engaging means is a protrusion attached at an edge of the screwdriver bit and a flange attached at the edge of the orifice, so that the flange is adapted to reversibly receive the protrusion in a frictional interlocking relationship when the screwdriver bit is inserted into the orifice. Yet another preferred configuration of the engaging means comprises a magnet within the orifice, in which the magnet is adapted to reversibly receive the screwdriver bit when the screwdriver bit is inserted into the orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2003
    Inventors: Alfred William Escobedo, James M. Escobedo
  • Patent number: 6643877
    Abstract: A tool set having a screwdriver handle with a chuck for insertion and latched mounting of screwing-tool inserts provided with standard polygonal shank segments, and having screwing-tool inserts, which are insertable into the chuck and are provided with the standard polygonal shank segments, in particular bits, nuts or ratchets and extensions for drive of the latter, comprising a supplementary tool which has a plier head (2) and a plier-handle projection (4) which is disposed immediately behind a knuckle joint (5) and is in form of the standard shank segment of the screwing-tool inserts, the screwdriver handle (9) latches to the plier-handle projection by its chuck (10), forming one of two plier arms and a blade extension (11) which likewise has a chuck (10), forming other of the two plier arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Amtenbrink, Axel Fach, Sylvester Rosanwo, Martin Strauch, Michael Abel
  • Patent number: 6637061
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignees: Snap-on Technologies, Inc., Trek Bicycle Corporation
    Inventors: Stacy T. Spracklin, Wendell J. Woodruff, Gerald A. Wridt, Richard L. Hopper
  • Patent number: 6609262
    Abstract: A magnetic tool structure includes a body having a square end formed with a receiving seat, and a magnetic device mounted on the receiving seat of the body. The magnetic device includes an outer retractable rod secured and hidden in the receiving seat, an inner retractable rod retractably mounted on the outer retractable rod, and a magnetic body secured on the inner retractable rod to move therewith. In use, the magnetic body can be extended outward from the receiving seat of the body and fully inserted into the receiving seat of the body, so that when the magnetic device is retracted and shortened to a minimum length thereof, the magnetic device is fully hidden in the receiving seat of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Inventor: Chin Shun Cheng
  • Patent number: 6592236
    Abstract: An emergency hammer includes a handle having front and rear ends, and first and second side faces extending therebetween. The first side face is formed with a seat-receiving chamber to receive a bit-holding seat that is formed with several bit-receiving grooves to receive several driving bits. First and second retaining seats are fixed on the first side face at two opposite sides of the seat-receiving chamber to detachably mount an operating tool therebetween. The operating tool has a handgrip and a tool element pivotally connected to the handgrip. An extension rod is pivoted to one of the retaining seats, and has a free end connected to a hammerhead. The second side face of the handle is formed with a lid-receiving chamber and a socket-receiving chamber which receives a socket. A cover lid is received in the lid-receiving chamber, and is pivoted to a chamber-confining wall portion of the second side face, and covers the lid-receiving chamber and the socket-receiving chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2003
    Inventor: Ming-Hsuan Lin
  • Patent number: 6550786
    Abstract: A removable chuck has a chuck member for holding a drill bit. Also, a mechanism is coupled with the chuck body to retain the chuck body to a drill spindle. The retention mechanism, in a first position, a biasing member in a non-biasing condition, retains the chuck on the drill spindle and in a second position, with the biasing member in a biased condition, the chuck is enabled to be removed from the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Gifford, Richard J. Heavel, Alfred H. Judge, Thomas T. Bludis
  • Patent number: 6551037
    Abstract: A removable chuck has a chuck member for holding a drill bit. Also, a mechanism is coupled with the chuck body to retain the chuck body to a drill spindle. The retention mechanism, in a first position, retains the chuck on the drill spindle and in a second position the chuck is enabled to be removed from the spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Robert H. Gifford, Richard J. Heavel, Alfred H. Judge
  • Patent number: 6530098
    Abstract: A taping knife includes a continuous shaft having a blade on a first end thereof, and a hammer on a second end thereof. A handle surrounds the shaft with the blade extending from one end thereof, and the hammer extending from the other end thereof. The handle preferably is constructed with a molded inner core and a soft molded rubber overlay. The hammer includes a hammering surface generally perpendicular to a central axis of the handle. The inner core is preferably constructed of a molded thermoplastic, and the overlay is preferably constructed of an injection molded rubber. The handle may include a bit storage slot for receiving and storing a screwdriver bit. The overlay may include a plurality of flexible fingers adjacent to the bit storage slot for securing a screwdriver bit in the slot. The hammer may include a sleeve for receiving a screwdriver bit with a working portion of the bit extending from the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Allway Tools, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Gringer, Yuan Fang Cheng
  • Patent number: 6499168
    Abstract: A drill adapter includes an elongate support holder and a generally elongate member fixed to one axial end of the support holder configured to be secured in a chuck of a drill to rotate the support holder. A reversible bit carrying member supports the drill bit at one end and a driver bit at the other end, and is receivable within the support holder. A magnet, formed of a permanently magnetized material having a high energy product, preferably equal to at least 7.0×106 gauss-oersteds, which may be in the form of a pill magnet embedded within the support holder or may be in the form of a sleeve of magnetizable material, surrounds at least an axial end portion of the support holder proximate to the end of the support holder that supports the driver bit in its operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Inventor: Wayne Anderson
  • Patent number: 6497526
    Abstract: A multipurpose tool for use in installing wallboard is. According to one embodiment, the tool comprises an elongated handle having first and second ends. The first end of the handle is connected to a wallboard spotter. The second end of the handle is connected to a screwdriver portion, which desirably comprises a ratcheting screwdriver. The screwdriver portion can also be adapted to be removably coupled to the handle. In addition, the screwdriver portion can be provided with a removable, reversible bit having a screwdriver end and a blunt end for depressing strands of wallboard paper into holes left by nails or screws in wallboard. In another embodiment, a tool comprises an elongated handle having a first end adapted for connection to a conventional wallboard spotter and a second end having a screwdriver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Inventor: Stacey Weir