For Pivoted Tools Patents (Class 7/168)
  • Patent number: 5970553
    Abstract: A wrench hammer set, comprising a handle rod, one end of said handle rod is linked to a combination tool head that serves as an adjustable wrench and a hammer; the other end of said handle rod is linked to a rod-shaped tool set; a handle cover covering the rear half of said handle rod, to serve as a handle of a hand tool set, inside said handle cover may be arranged an assortment of sleeve sockets; with said construction, tools of various functions are combined to become a hand tool, to fully achieve the purposes of minimized space and increased functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Inventor: Yuan-Ho Lin
  • Patent number: 5937680
    Abstract: A device for concealing, storing and permitting ready access to and use of a handcuff key which is not readily identifiable as a key holder but is easily retrieved and utilized by law enforcement personnel. The handcuff key is camouflaged and concealed in a variety of devices, such as a ball point pen enclosure, a pocket knife holder and a rectangular case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Armament Systems and Procedures, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin L. Parsons
  • Patent number: 5926885
    Abstract: A combination chisel and punch for using one tool as a handle while striking another tool is provided. The combination tool includes multiple tool members with a striking end for being struck by another object and a working end for engaging a work piece. The tool members are pivotally connected by a link. A locking mechanism secures one tool member, serving as a handle, in an orientation parallel to the link while the user strikes another tool member, serving as a tool. When not in use, each tool member folds into an unlocked position for compact storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1999
    Assignee: Clark & Williams L.L.C.
    Inventor: Luther L. Williams
  • Patent number: 5916277
    Abstract: A multi-function tool includes a caddy and a cover pivotally connected to the caddy. The tool includes a primary implement attached to a first end of the caddy, and a plurality of secondary implements pivotally attached about a second end of the caddy. The secondary implements may be held in an extended position by a locking mechanism, a portion of which extending from a longitudinal slot formed in at least one side of the caddy. The cover may also include a light disposed about an end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Fiskars Inc.
    Inventor: Edgar A. Dallas
  • Patent number: 5878637
    Abstract: A driving tool includes a barrel and a handle secured to one end of the barrel for rotating the barrel. The barrel includes an engaging opening formed in the other end for engaging with a tool bit and a fastener. A telescopic pipe is engaged in the bore of the barrel and has one end secured to the handle and has a magnetic member secured to the other end for allowing the magnetic member to be extended outward of the barrel to attract and to fetch the fasteners engaged in a deep hole of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Inventor: Kuo Zhen Liu
  • Patent number: 5875558
    Abstract: A measuring tool having a plurality of templates, each template having a socket opening therein. The size of the socket openings in each template are different from each other. The templates are mounted together with each template having a head portion, a shank portion and a rear-end. The templates are pivotally mounted together adjacent their rear-ends so that the templates are moveable from a folded compact position to an open position. The head portions are wider than the shank portions and are thin and light-weight. Openings are provided in the rear ends so that the templates may be pivotally mounted together at the rear-ends. The templates are of different sizes with the larger nut socket located in the longer template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Inventors: John S. Bakke, David C. Bakke
  • Patent number: 5787535
    Abstract: A multi-tool with an assembly of tool instruments particularly useful for the field maintenance of chain saws. The multi-tool includes a hollow handle with a spark plug socket connected at one and a plurality of tool instruments pivotally connected at the end opposite the spark plug socket. The tool instruments include a raker gauge, small tooth file, large tooth file, small screw driver, large screw driver, air filter brush and serrated knife. The tools pivot about the handle end into the hollow handle. Included with the tool is a sliver tweezer which is insertable into an aperture formed within the multi-tool handle. The spark plug socket is pivoted about one end of the multi-tool handle and locked in place in a keyed-portion of the handle, thereby providing a tool acting as a socket wrench capable of applying substantial torque to a work piece, e.g., spark plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1998
    Inventor: David A. Epstein
  • Patent number: 5743582
    Abstract: A multi-purpose folding tool including a pair of folding scissors, in which a scissors blade is movable about a pivot shaft, between a stowed position and a deployed position in which a stop prevents the blade from moving further with respect to the handle because of pressure on the handle in the direction needed to close the scissors blades in a cutting stroke. A rocker is moved by a spring in the tool handle and which in turn urges a movable scissors blade toward an open position. In one embodiment two handles are folded about respective scissors blades to house the blades, and four springs hold the handles together with the folded scissors stowed within the handles. When the blades are deployed one of the springs holds each blade in position with respect to the handle while the other spring urges the blades toward an open position, through action of a rocker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Benjamin C. Rivera
  • Patent number: 5704236
    Abstract: A device for concealing, storing and permitting ready access to and use of a handcuff key which is not readily identifiable as a key holder but is easily retrieved and utilized by law enforcement personnel. The handcuff key is camouflaged and concealed in a variety of devices, such as a ball point pen enclosure, a pocket knife holder and a rectangular case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Armament Systems and Procedures, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin L. Parsons
  • Patent number: 5609280
    Abstract: A belt buckle is provided that is uniquely designed for securely holding a plier-like tool, such that a wearer has ready access to the tool when needed. The belt buckle is particularly designed for use with a tool of the type exemplified by a handtool commercially available under the name VISE GRIPS, which is characterized by jaws operated by a pair of bi-stable arms. The belt buckle utilizes the jaws and the arms of the tool to secure the tool to the buckle in a manner that exploits the ability of such a tool to grip an object without slipping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Inventor: Robert D. Smith
  • Patent number: 5601322
    Abstract: An aquarium tool kit includes handles, extension members and a plurality of implements including a sponge, scraper, net, rock pickers, brush, scoops, and pinchers. The handles includes a pivotally interconnected handle members which form tongs, and a substantially straight handle member. The extension members are used to adjust the length and angularity of the handles. The handles, extension members and implements have coupling members thereon which permit ready attachment of any implement directly to the handles or to an extension member. The tool kit therefore allows the various implements to be used with a handle for performing any specific function thereby allowing structuring, maintenance, and restructuring of aquariums regardless of size or shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Inventor: Robert Forest
  • Patent number: 5568741
    Abstract: A device for concealing, storing and permitting ready access to and use of a handcuff key which is not readily identifiable as a key holder but is easily retrieved and utilized by law enforcement personnel. The handcuff key is camouflaged and concealed in a variety of devices, such as a ball point pen enclosure, a pocket knife holder and a rectangular case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Armament Systems and Procedures, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin L. Parsons
  • Patent number: 5495942
    Abstract: A device is described capable of selectively extending one member selected from a number of possible extending members, by a selector, full extension of the selected member being made under spring force applied by a rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Inventor: Allan Izhak
  • Patent number: 5460022
    Abstract: A device for concealing, storing and permitting ready access to and use of a handcuff key which is not readily identifiable as a key holder but is easily retrieved and utilized by law enforcement personnel. The handcuff key is camouflaged and concealed in a variety of devices, such as a ball point pen enclosure, a pocket knife holder and a rectangular case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Armament Systems and Procedures, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin L. Parsons
  • Patent number: 5450774
    Abstract: A hand tool set includes an elongated handle having a U-shaped cross section defined by a bottom and two side walls to provide therebetween a hollow space. The handle has two ends each having a pin extending through the side walls thereof for rotatably supporting hand tools in such a way to allow the hand tools to be rotatable between a first position where the hand tools are received within the hollow space and a second position where the working tips of the hand tools are exposed. The bottom has a sloped section formed at each end of the handle to provide a gap between the handle and a work piece worked upon by the hand tool set. Each of the pivot pins has serration formed on an expanded head thereof for engaging one of the side walls to more securely keep the pin and thus the hand tools supported thereby on the hand tool set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Inventor: Wong-Lien Chang
  • Patent number: 5267366
    Abstract: Jaw members are pivoted together such that cooperating working end portions of the jaw members are movable toward and away from each other. The jaw members have tang or butt portions extending opposite the pivot from the working end portions. Such butt portions are, in turn, pivoted to elongated handles which are channel shaped and define a recess between them into which the interconnected jaw members can be swung so as to be nested in the handles. The pivots connecting the butt portions of the jaw members to the handles are not coaxial but rather are mutually oblique in such a manner that swinging of the jaw members from the retracted or nested position to the working position necessarily results in spreading the handles relatively apart. Similarly, movement of the jaw members from the projected position to the retracted or nested position automatically swings the handles together. Mechanism is provided to interconnect the handles automatically when the jaw members are retracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Inventor: Spencer Frazer
  • Patent number: 5261560
    Abstract: A receptacle for a spoon and fork; The spoon and the fork are pivotally mounted to the underside to the top of the receptacle, and the top is hinged to the bottom of the receptacle so that it may be opened to permit the spoon and fork to be turned to a position in which they protrude through the ends of the receptacle, and the top may then be closed down to a snap fit with the bottom of the receptacle to hold the spoon and fork in place, and enable the receptacle to serve as a handle for the spoon and fork.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Inventor: Paul S. Wang
  • Patent number: 5233715
    Abstract: A combination tool assembly is disclosed having a pentagonal top block detachably fastened to an elongated, pentagonal base through doweled joints, a folding rule pivoted to the top block and received in a side chamber on the base, a cutter and ballpoint pens controlled by slides to move in and out of respective holes on the base, a triangular scale detachably side matched to the top block and the base. The folding rule may be separately used for measuring and arranged with the base into an instrument for drawing circles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Inventor: Ming-Tzung Huang
  • Patent number: 5218892
    Abstract: A parking member service tool is provided, which consists of a body having a first end, a second end, a top surface, a bottom surface and lateral sides. A handle extends from the first end of the body. A elongated blade extends from the second end of the body. A first tool member is mounted to the body and is positioned at the top surface thereof. A second tool member is mounted to the body and is positioned at the bottom surface thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1993
    Inventor: Anthony Napoli
  • Patent number: 5029354
    Abstract: A knife (20) having its member (21) comprising blade (22) and tang (23) locked to its side rails (24, 25) whichever way blade (22) or tang (23) seat in the knife (20). Side rails (24, 25) include opposing or non-corresponding edges (43, 44) which includes bayonet slots (41, 42) respectively. One pin (55) on blade (22) cooperatively engages bayonet slot (41) when the blade (22) is disposed in a pocket (40) between the side rails (24, 25), and one pin (54) on tang (23) cooperatively engages bayonet slot (42) when the tang (23) is disposed in pocket (40). Urging means (32) such as rubber bands (34, 35) urge the pins (55, 54) in their corresponding bayonet slots (41, 42) to stay therein and means such as rounds (63, 64) on side rails (24, 25) overcome such urging so that member (21) shifts into a pivoting position to unlock either blade (21) or tang (22) for pivoting either one out of pocket (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: F. Boyd, Ltd.
    Inventors: Francis M. Boyd, Jr., Frank M. Boyd, Sr.
  • Patent number: 4961239
    Abstract: A knife or tool (10) comprising a member (11) with a blade (12) and tool element (14) thereon, pivotable at (40) whereby one or the other, blade (12) or tool element (14), is correspondingly disposed in a sheath (22) while the other is exposed. Scales (16, 17) are mounted to each side (20, 21) of the member (11) and encompassed within its sheath (22), while an urging means (54, 55) or spring mechanisms are mounted between the member (11) at its pivot point (40) and the scales (16, 17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1990
    Assignee: F. Boyd, Ltd., Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Frank M. Boyd, Sr., Francis M. Boyd, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4918775
    Abstract: A portable safety device for outdoor use comprising: a first shell and a second shell; two grooves respectively disposed in the first and second shells; a switch disposed on the first shell and exposed to the outer environment of the first shell; first and second conductive plates disposed on the first shell and electrically communicated with each other by the switch; a cylindrically lighting means disposed between the first and second sheels and one end thereof protruded from the combination of the first and second shells; fixing means disposed on the other end of the combination of the first and second shells for connecting the lighting means, and the first and second shells together; a telescope movably disposed upon the lighting means and having an open position and a closed position wherein at one end thereof is an object lens and at the other end is an eye lens; a slidably elongated means provided on the object lens of the telescope for slidably moving the telescope from the closed position to the open
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Inventor: Ching-Baiu Leu
  • Patent number: 4862544
    Abstract: A knife blade suitable for use as a spanner wrench in the installation and removal of choke tubes in shotguns, characterized by recesses on one edge, preferably matching the diameters of 12 and 20 gauge shotguns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Remington Arms Company
    Inventor: William D. Wallace
  • Patent number: 4856132
    Abstract: A utility golf tool is set forth including a case with a plurality of spaced planar members integrally secured together by a medial interfitting integral rib to define an upper and lower compartment. The upper compartment includes a conventional cutting blade and an associated file blade. The lower compartment includes a divot repair tool and a golf cleaning brush comprising a plural series of rows of bristles of alternating height including spherical ends to minimize damage during a cleaning operation to a golf club, golf ball, and the like. A magnetic ball marker is received within a complementary recess within one of said planar member's outer surfaces for selective use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Inventors: Walter T. Burns, Nancy H. Burns
  • Patent number: 4776094
    Abstract: A utility knife is disclosed herein having an elongated body pivotally housing a knife blade adapted to be moved between a folded position within a storage cavity and an operative position extended from one end of the body. A cutting edge is provided along one side of the blade and a finger grasping protrusion is integrally carried on its opposite side for moving the blade between its two positions. A snap shackle is carried on the end of the body adjacent to the pivot connection of the blade so that the shackle substantially fits the contour of the blade protrusion when the blade is extended into its operative position and so that the shackle is exposed when the blade is in its storage position. One side of the body displays a measuring scale and as an option, a pry bar may be integrally carried on the body end opposite from its end pivotally carrying the folding blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Inventor: Louis Glesser
  • Patent number: 4676703
    Abstract: A reversible drill and drive tool for performing a series of similar drill and drive operations. The tool consists of an elongated cylindrical housing having at its rear end a shaft of reduced diameter for insertion into the chuck of a power drill and a front and bifurcated to form two arms with parallel flat interior surfaces and a generally cylindrical tool-holding member having at each end an axially recessed cylindrical socket of reduced diameter adapted to receive a drilling tool at one end and a driving tool at its other end. Each arm of the housing contains an identical elongated slot running parallel to the axis of the housing, and the tool-holding member being slidably and pivotably pinned into the housing by a pin whose outer ends lie within the elongated slots in the arms of the housing. The tool-holding member also has a pair of identical and parallel flat sides which lie parallel to the flat interior surfaces of the arms of the housing and the housing has a third elongated slot which lies at 90.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Inventor: Carl A. Swanson
  • Patent number: 4656895
    Abstract: Emergency gas shut-off tool; comprising a three-dimensional shank, having an upper end terminating in a butt and an inverted U-shaped three-dimensional head mounted rotatably to the shank adjacent the butt so as to form a closed space therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Assignee: Erik M. Arnhem
    Inventor: Johnnie L. Wilson
  • Patent number: 4625402
    Abstract: This invention is a shaving implement that includes a main body member attachable to a replaceable container of shaving cream, a brush mounted on the main body member for receiving shaving cream from the container, and a safety razor mounted on a yoke pivoted on the main body member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1986
    Inventor: James P. Kavoussi
  • Patent number: 4578835
    Abstract: An operating part, essential to the starting-up or use of a power-operated device (1), e.g. driven by an engine or a pressure-medium, is made in the form of a tool-carrier (4). Permanently attached to the tool-carrier (4) is at least one tool, preferably a set of tools, specifically intended for the maintenance, cleaning, or the like of the device. However, the operating part constituting the tool-carrier (4) is arranged detachably upon a functional element (2,3) of the device (1). It is therefore scarcely possible for the tool to be lost after it has been used, since the device (1) only becomes serviceable again (i.e. may be driven or guided by the operator) after the operating part of the device (1) which has been removed, and which constitutes the tool-carrier (4), has been replaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Maschinenvertrieb Kohlbrat & Bunz Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Josef Pichler, Peter Kohlbrat, Raimund Falkner, Karoly Tompe
  • Patent number: 4528751
    Abstract: An eviscerating and survival tool having a shaft with a handle at one end, a claw-like hook at the other end, the hook being comprised of at least two arcuately shaped tines defining a slot, and a saw blade disposed longitudinally along the portion of the shaft near the end containing said hook. In its preferred form the shaft is in two approximately equal portions connected by pivotable fastening means to permit the two parts of the shaft to be folded against each other with means to maintain the two parts in rigid end-to-end relationship in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1985
    Inventor: Winston O. Olson
  • Patent number: 4504993
    Abstract: A skier's accessory tool including a body in the general configuration of a ski boot having a rear, top, front and sole portion. A first recess is provided in the sole portion and Phillips-type screwdriver is pivotally mounted in the recess and received therein in a closed position. A second recess extends along the top and front of the boot. A second blade is pivotally received in this recess in the closed position. The second blade may be folded out and includes a U-shaped portion for engaging buckles. The outer end of the blade is configured as a flat screwdriver. A section of the blade may also form an ice scraping edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Inventor: Christopher L. Gamble
  • Patent number: 4498669
    Abstract: A hand-held defense weapon provides a first and second pair of shafts which are connected together at a common pivot located at the central portion of each shaft. A pair of handles are respectively on one end of each shaft and a pair of blunt elements are mounted on the other end of each shaft opposite the handle. A third shaft is connected to the common pivot at one end of that shaft with the shaft carrying a blunt element at the other end. The three shafts are thus independently movable with respect to the pivot and with respect to each other so that the apparatus can be positioned between any selected fingers of a user's hands, the shafts collapsing with respect to each other for storage to a position where the shafts are generally aligned side by side. The blunt elements can be removable to expose tips which are "tooled" such as Phillips, or flat-head screwdrivers or the like. Preferably the blunt elements would be spherical members threadably attached to the ends of the shafts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1983
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1985
    Inventor: Dai S. Chun
  • Patent number: 4461080
    Abstract: An eviscerating and survival tool having a shaft with a handle at one end, a claw-like hook at the other end, the hook being comprised of at least two arcuately shaped tines defining a slot, and as saw blade disposed longitudinally along the portion of the shaft near the end containing said hook. In its preferred form the shaft is in two approximately equal portions connected by pivotable fastening means to permit the two parts of the shaft to be folded against each other with means to maintain the two parts in rigid end-to-end relationship in use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1984
    Inventor: Winston O. Olson
  • Patent number: 4204294
    Abstract: A cleaning device comprises a handle member and one or more brushes, each brush having an abrasive bristle end. Each brush is mounted on the handle member for independent pivotal movement relative to the handle member between an operative position in which the abrasive bristle end extends outwardly of the handle member for use and an inoperative position in which the abrasive bristle end is contained within the confines of the handle member for storage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1980
    Inventor: Robert J. Halverson
  • Patent number: 4122569
    Abstract: The integrated universal tool is a novel combination tool which provides these functions: A locking knife blade, a locking saw blade, a locking Phillips bladed screwdriver, a locking small flat bladed screw driver, a locking large flat bladed screwdriver, a crescent wrench, graduated calipers for measuring inside and outside dimensions, left and right-handed shears, a nibbler, a wire stripper, and an electrical terminal crimping tool. This combination of tools is allowed by the use of the integrated universal. The universal is a universal joint located at the end opposite the crescent wrench. The blades of the tool are fastened to this universal joint and can be rotated into the extended or retracted positions about its two axes. This allows three extended blade positions and one closed position. The integration is the integrating slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1978
    Inventor: Thomas H. Hitchcock
  • Patent number: 4112537
    Abstract: A tool for scraping the wires or rods constituting a barbeque grill or the like. The tool has a handle terminating in a stiff extension having a U-shaped distal end. A wheel is pivotably secured at its center to said extension and has a plurality of U-shaped indentations of different widths. The wheel may be rotated to align a suitably sized U-shaped indentation thereof with the U-shaped distal end of said extension. The latter indentation is of a width equal to the largest of the indentations in the wheel and of a depth equal to the deepest indentation in the wheel. The extension or backing element prevents rotation of the indented wheel during a scraping operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: M. E. Heuck Company
    Inventor: Roger W. Heuck
  • Patent number: 4078272
    Abstract: This invention relates to a belt buckle uniquely combined with a tool implement having multiple-purpose uses. More specifically, this invention relates to a belt buckle so uniquely shaped and dimensional so as to house a cutting instrument and multi-tool implement that are foldable into the body of said buckle in a unique manner and wherein the buckle itself can be employed as a tool implement to remove caps and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1978
    Inventor: Charles A. Mahon, III