Having Perpendicular Handle Patents (Class 81/124.7)
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Patent number: 11793654Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an anti-rotation locking system for an expandable implant. The anti-rotation locking system may include a screw comprising a screw head comprising a plurality of notches. The anti-rotation locking system further comprises a housing and a locking member comprising a ring, a partial ring, and a strut coupling the ring to the partial ring.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Joel Cryder, James Himmelberger, Mark Weiman, Jason Zappacosta
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Patent number: 11331778Abstract: According to one aspect, a fluid control system is provided comprising a servicing tool set and at least one valve assembly comprising an actuator and a valve operationally engageable therewith; each valve comprising a valve body; each actuator comprising an actuator body having an upper base and side walls; wherein each actuator body is engageable with a valve body, and wherein the system is configured to allow: engaging the servicing tool set with an actuator and subsequently applying torque to an actuator body engaged with a valve body and thereby disengaging the actuator body from the valve body; the at least one valve assembly comprising at least one Normally Closed (NC) valve; wherein the NC valve is configured to allow activating an actuator engaged therewith with pressurized fluid and thereby opening the NC valve, wherein the actuator comprises a nipple and the servicing tool set comprises a ratchet and at least one socket engageable with the actuator body, and wherein the at least one socket is sizedType: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Ham-Let (Israel—Canada) LtdInventors: Boris Margol, Sergey Seryogin, Felix Shestatski, Olga Fonaryov
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Patent number: 10941805Abstract: A wing nut includes a body having a sidewall that surrounds a central opening. The central opening is threaded along a threaded portion having a threaded length extending from the back end towards the front end of the body. At least two wings are integrated with the sidewall and extend away from the sidewall in a radial direction relative to the centerline. A rib extend peripherally around the sidewall in a radially outward direction such that a wall thickness of the sidewall increases to a maximum value moving along the centerline away from the rear end, and decreases along the centerline moving towards the front end from the maximum value.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Zachary A. Schramm, Brian G. Tyler
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Patent number: 8943930Abstract: A wrench device includes a handle, a driving member and a driving sleeve, the handle having a fork portion defined at one end thereof, the fork portion being pivotally assembled with the driving member, the handle having a screwing portion defined at another end thereof, a screwing hole being opened at one end of the screwing portion, an opening of the screwing hole being opposite to the fork portion, the driving sleeve sleeving on an outer periphery of the screwing portion. Under this arrangement, a user applies a sleeving member to sleeve on the driving member so as to screw or unscrew a bolt; in addition, the user also can operate the screwing portion of the wrench device to screw or unscrew the bolt.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Inventor: Chao-Chih Liu
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Publication number: 20150000476Abstract: A drive tool device includes a drive handle member having three barrels attached to the end portions and the middle portion, the two end barrels each include a non-circular engaging opening communicating with the bore of the handle member, and the drive handle member include one or more non-circular engaging orifices formed in either of the barrels, and a driving shank element includes a non-circular cross section for engaging with the non-circular engaging orifices of the drive handle member and for allowing the drive handle member to be driven by the driving shank element selectively and for allowing the driving shank element to be driven by the drive handle member selectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventor: Yi Cheng Li
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Publication number: 20140230611Abstract: A wrench device includes a handle, a driving member and a driving sleeve, the handle having a fork portion defined at one end thereof, the fork portion being pivotally assembled with the driving member, the handle having a screwing portion defined at another end thereof, a screwing hole being opened at one end of the screwing portion, an opening of the screwing hole being opposite to the fork portion, the driving sleeve sleeving on an outer periphery of the screwing portion. Under this arrangement, a user applies a sleeving member to sleeve on the driving member so as to screw or unscrew a bolt; in addition, the user also can operate the screwing portion of the wrench device to screw or unscrew the bolt.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2013Publication date: August 21, 2014Inventor: Chao-Chih Liu
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Publication number: 20140182421Abstract: The present invention is composed of a main body, a rotary ring, a fixing member, and a spring plate. The main body includes a sleeve projecting from a top end of a driving hole and including a guide aperture extending through the driving hole. The rotary ring has a bore rotatably coupled to the sleeve to be rotatable between first and second positions. The bore has an inside surface forming a retention chamber having first and second recessed curved faces. The fixing member is movably received in the guide aperture. The spring plate is arranged between the fixing member and the retention chamber and has one side fixed to the sleeve and a curved section formed between two sides thereof. In the first position, the first recessed curved face positions the curved section. In the second position, the second recessed curved face positions the curved section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Inventor: HUNG-WEN CHANG
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Patent number: 8739661Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for tightening and releasing clamping tools (16), such as draw-in collet chucks, mandrels and the like which allows a torque to be concentrically transferred onto a clamping device, such as a locknut (17), clamping screw or the like without radial stress and without the threaded sections of the clamping device (17) and the collet chuck base (31) or the like being subjected to an unbalanced load. In a preferred embodiment, the device (1) is universally applicable, has an especially simple design and can be rapidly adapted to the respective clamping tools (16).Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignee: Franz Haimer Maschinenbau KGInventors: Franz Haimer, Wolfgang Kugle
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Patent number: 8327739Abstract: In order to provide a wheel nut wrench in which strength of a nut socket portion is allowed to be increased even though processes are facilitated under a situation where a tube made of carbon steel such as S45C is used as a material, and a manufacturing process thereof, an embodiment to implement the present invention is a wheel nut wrench made with a tube-shaped steel tube and provided with a nut socket portion at least one end, a nut socket shell portion whose inner and outer peripheries are both formed in a hexagonal shape is provided at an end portion of the steel tube, a sleeve made of a steel plate and having a cross section of a hexagonal shape is pressed into the nut socket shell portion, and a portion of the nut socket shell portion is deformed toward the sleeve to thereby achieve unification of the nut socket portion and the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Rikenseiko Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tatsuo Kubota
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Patent number: 8047102Abstract: A multi-purpose tool may be comprised of a body having a gripping configuration on the outer surface of the body for long bolts and a lengthwise bore through the center of the body. The multi-purpose tool has a socket located at a first end of the body and a crown located at the second end of the body to receive various fasteners, such as flange and wing nuts. A multi-purpose tool may also be comprised of a body having a gripping configuration on the outer surface of the body and a lengthwise bore through the center of the body for a sleeve. The multi-purpose tool has a socket located in the sleeve at a first end of the sleeve and a crown located at the second end of the body to receive various fasteners, such as flange and wing nuts. The sleeve has a lengthwise bore through the center of the sleeve for long bolts or to accept a tool shaft. The tool shaft may accept various tool bits, and the tool shaft may be inserted into and engaged with the sleeve bore along its length.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Inventor: Chris Gnatz
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Publication number: 20110247953Abstract: Provided is an emergency gas shutoff key and a water shutoff assembly for closing a gas valve and water valve, respectively. The gas shutoff key and water shutoff assembly are sized and configured for storage near the gas valve and water valve. In particular, the gas shutoff key includes a key body having a pair of keyholes formed therein. Each keyhole is configured to receive the gas valve stem for controlling the gas valve. The gas key further includes a hook for hanging on a gas pipe, and a stem for opening the water vault. The water shutoff assembly includes a water control axle and a lever arm sized to be insertable through a bore formed within the water control axle. The water control axle includes a water keyhole sized to receive the water valve stem for controlling the water valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2010Publication date: October 13, 2011Inventor: Richard Edwards
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Publication number: 20110088520Abstract: The tool according to the invention serves to rotate a work piece or a device around a rotational axis and has a handle and a shaped component, which can be brought into a form-fitting position with the work piece or the device. Herein the handle is able to swivel around a pivot axis arranged on the section of the handle toward the axis end side, whereby the moment of inertia and/or the momentum of the swiveled handle is transmittable as rotational momentum onto the shaped component and thus onto the work piece or the device, through a limitation on the swivelable extent. Thus an increased torque (for example, an initial breakaway or tightening torque) may be briefly applied onto the work piece or the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2009Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventor: Manuel S. ALBRECHT
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Publication number: 20110036210Abstract: A wrench tool used in fastening or unfastening a bolt or nut. The wrench tool includes a head having a socket formed in an axial direction thereof such that an outer circumference of the bolt or the nut can be inserted into the socket and a rod connected to one end of the head. The rod includes a bent section extending from the one end of the head in the axial direction of the head and a connector rod connected to one end of the bent section and extending a predetermined length. The bent section is curved to define an opening in one side thereof. The wrench tool is extensible in length, and the moment generated by a force applied by a user to be consistent with the rotational direction of the bolt or nut so that the bolt or the nut can be fastened or unfastened using less force.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2010Publication date: February 17, 2011Inventor: Young-Doo Kwon
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Publication number: 20100154603Abstract: A wrench comprises a handle connected to a housing. A socket is rotatably supported in the housing for ratcheting movement relative to the housing. A retaining member releasably secures a device in the socket. A retainer is supported on the housing and is movable between a first position and a second position. The retainer, when in the first position, at least partially overlays the socket. A plurality of guides orient a member relative to the socket. The guides are mounted in a rotatable body. A first handle is permanently connected to the housing and a second handle is removably connected to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: Irwin Industrial Tool CompanyInventors: Brandon Seth Cross, Derek James Nash
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Patent number: 7673542Abstract: A spanner comprises a box end that has an inner periphery consisting of a number of wall faces to define a first polygonal receiving space. Each wall face includes a groove defined therein. The grooves of the wall faces together define a second polygonal receiving space. At least one of the grooves includes a closed first end and an open second end.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Easco Hand Tools, Inc.Inventors: David Ling, Hsien-Chung Tuan-Mu
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Publication number: 20090320651Abstract: A valve handle turning tool includes a tool handle having at one end thereof a head which is specifically designed to engage a valve handle so that the valve handle can be turned. A method for turning a valve handle to open or close a valve includes fitting a valve handle turning tool over a valve handle and moving the tool to turn the valve handle to open or close the valve, wherein the valve handle turning tool is a valve handle turning tool including a tool handle having at one end thereof a head which is specifically designed to engage a valve handle so that the valve handle can be turned.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Inventor: Bruce Elliot Kramer
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Patent number: 7340983Abstract: A spanner comprises a box end that has an inner periphery consisting of a number of wall faces to define a first polygonal receiving space. Each wall face includes a groove defined therein. The grooves of the wall faces together define a second polygonal receiving space. At least one of the grooves includes a closed first end and an open second end.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2004Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Easco Hand Tools, Inc.Inventors: David Ling, Hsien-Chung Tuan-Mu
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Patent number: 7331261Abstract: A crosswise wrench includes a prismatic core with a polygonal cross-section, a face plate nut head on one end and a working point on the other end. The wrench also includes three circular grooves and an extended element having face plate nut heads on its ends. The extended element has at least three identical pairs of apertures with mutually perpendicular axes crossing a longitudinal axis of the extended element at a right angle.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: February 19, 2008Inventors: Alexandr Alexandrovich Blizniuk, Andrey Borisovich Dobrynin
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Publication number: 20070163400Abstract: The present invention is an combination drum/percussion hardware wig nut tightening/loosening tool and tuning key. It is comprised of a cylinder body, with two sets of open slots at one end for wing nut adjustments. One end of the cylindrical body comprises protruding socket slots designed to engage wing nuts of various sizes for rapid but sensitive adjustments. The other end of the cylinder tapers down in diameter to a socket style wrench. The socket style wrench end can be used for tuning heads on standard percussion instruments such as congas, bongos, timbales, etc, and for tightening and loosening various nuts and bolts through out the musical industry world. A slidable coupled cross center rod, can be round, oval, hexagon, octagon and others forms, is guided thru the cylinder body midsection, at an angle adjustable for maximum leverage in confined spaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2006Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventor: Frank D. Parise
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Patent number: 7237462Abstract: A hand tool includes a handle made of a first material and at least one driving head connected to an end of the handle and the at least one driving head is made by a second material. A protection layer is coated onto the driving head and the handle. The first material can be Chrome-Vanadium alloy and the second material can be medium carbon steel.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Inventor: Jia-Guann Liau
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Publication number: 20070137443Abstract: The invention relates to mechanical engineering. The crosswise wrench comprises a prismatic core with a polygonal cross-section, a face plate nut head on the one end and a working point on other end, three circular grooves and an extended element having face plate nut heads on the ends thereof. The extended element has at least three identical pairs of partially mutually transversal apertures with mutually perpendicular axes, which cross a longitudinal axis of the extended element at a right angle. The first apertures of each pair of the partially mutually transversal apertures are through and have the same polygonal cross-section, as the prismatic core and the sizes ensuring its sequential placement in said apertures with the possibility of longitudinal movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2006Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: Alexandr Alexandrovich Blizniuk, Andrey Borisovich Dobrynin
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Patent number: 7131358Abstract: A quick release bit socket assembly includes a socket and a screw bit is removably inserted in a first recess in a first end of the socket. A second recess is defined in a second end of the socket and a passage is in communication between the first and second recesses. A push rod includes a head and a shank which extends through the first recess, the passage and is inserted in the second recess. A spring is mounted to the shank and biased between the head and an inside of the first recess. The screw bit can be quickly pushed out from the second passage by pushing the push rod toward the screw bit.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2006Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Inventor: Chih-Ching Hsien
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Patent number: 7096765Abstract: A multi-purpose hand tool is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the tool may include a socket body, a key tip and an arm portion. The socket body may include a socket at a first end. The arm portion is connected between the socket body and the key tip. The key tip may include a hex key. The arm portion may define an opening for receiving a torquing device and the key tip may define a notch for receiving a torquing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2003Date of Patent: August 29, 2006Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property CorporationInventors: Frederick James Diggle, III, Kenneth Newton, Jr.
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Patent number: 7093519Abstract: This invention discloses a three-in-one combination wrench. A preferred embodiment features an easily assembled ratchet wrench in the middle of the wrench body, suitable for operation in confined spaces. The combination wrench terminates at one end in a pair of opening jaws for engaging fasteners of various sizes that fit into the jaws; and at the other, in an adjustable mortise-tenon pivotal wrench for approaching fasteners from an optimal angle to maximize torque with least effort. Furthermore, a substantially symmetrical streamlined dual-handle is ergonomically configured for a comfortable holding gesture.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Inventor: Wen-Kuo Huang
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Patent number: 7080580Abstract: A lug wrench having a nut-receiving socket on a shank, and a crossbar joined to the shank to extend transversely, e.g. perpendicularly, thereto. The lug wrench may include a wedge or a second socket joined to the shank. First and second handle members are joined to the first and second ends, respectively, of the crossbar to extend transversely, e.g. perpendicularly, thereto. The handle members may extend substantially parallel to an axis of the shank. The crossbar may be joined to a middle portion of each of the handle members, or the crossbar may be joined to an end of the handle members such that the handle members may extend from the crossbar in a direction away from the socket. The lug wrench is preferably symmetrical about a plane that intersects the shank and is perpendicular to the crossbar to facilitate balanced application of force to a lug nut.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2003Date of Patent: July 25, 2006Assignee: Ameritech Auto Design CorporationInventor: Herman Gordon
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Patent number: 7044031Abstract: The present invention is directed to an improved tool for driving a threaded fastener, such as a hex-headed sheet metal screw. The driving socket is adapted with an counter-bore in the region of the face of driving end of the socket, sufficient to receive therein the shoulder on the fastener head. In the preferred embodiment the counter-bore is countersunk into the face of the socket, coaxially with the driving recess, and terminates in a boss which receives the shoulder of the fastener when placed in the socket for driving. An alternative embodiment of the invention includes an counter-bore in the driving end of the socket wherein the bore is a conical section, the major diameter of which is larger enough to receive the shoulder of the fastener head while being of limited depth so as to enable the majority of the fastener head to engage the driving sides of the hexagonal socket.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: May 16, 2006Inventor: Steven Mullen
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Patent number: 7024973Abstract: An oxygen sensor removal and installation tool comprises a driving wrench which includes a socket drive with a socket sized to fit onto an oxygen sensor of a vehicle. The driving wrench is made from a thin plate of steel with an attached socket drive projecting at a right angle from the plane of the flat plate. A separate handle includes bifurcated legs which fit over the sides of the opposite end of the flat plate driving wrench and engage a driving surface to vibrate and drive the driving wrench and impart a turning force on the oxygen sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Lisle CorporationInventors: Jon A. Kobert, Michael L. Whitehead
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Patent number: 7013762Abstract: A handle tool comprises a spanner body; at least one opening being formed at one end of the spanner body; an inner wall of the flower form opening being formed with a resisting portion; the resisting portion being formed with a plurality of ratchet teeth for buckling an elastic restoring unit; a smooth portion at an lower edge of the resisting portion; a diameter of the smooth portion being slightly larger than that of the resisting portion. Thereby, when a hexagonal screwing unit of the screw unit buckled against the resisting annual element will be received in the smooth portion of the flower form opening. Since no ratchet tooth is formed on the smooth portion and the diameter of the smooth portion is slightly larger than that of the hexagonal screwing unit of the screw unit, the spanner body will rotate idly.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Inventor: Chin-Ching Hsien
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Patent number: 7004214Abstract: A hand tool apparatus for bleeding a hydraulic line at a fitting, including a fitting engagement portion, a fitting pressure portion, a laterally oriented fitting torquing portion and a fluid conducting portion wherein the fitting engagement portion is an open jaw with a non-round flange fitted to a non-round portion of the hydraulic line fitting, the fitting pressure portion is a cylindrical housing engaged with the fluid conducting portion, the fluid conducting portion is a flexible tube, and the fitting torquing portion is a pair of handles adapted by a hinge pin for mutual rotation to move the fitting engagement portion relative to the fitting pressure portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2004Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Inventor: Adam Awad
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Patent number: 6898998Abstract: The invention relates to a T-handle ratchet wrench including a lateral bar and a ratchet set. The lateral bar has a hollow connection part located in the center of the lateral bar and used for installing the ratchet set. Two flanks of the lateral bar make up a handgrip, respectively. The top of ratchet set is provided with a rotation button while a vertical bar extends downwardly from the rotation button. At least one of the handgrips includes a pivotal ear with a through hole, and the pivotal ear can be fitted into an insertion slot with a through hole at the free end of the lateral bar. A pivotal pin then passes through the through hole in the pivotal ear and the through hole in the insertion slot. This permits a pivotal movement of the handgrip on the pivotal pin. Accordingly, this configuration will considerably minimize the occupied space in packing, transport, storage and carrying. Particularly, the operators can more easily apply his force on the driver under special operation environments.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2003Date of Patent: May 31, 2005Inventor: Wen-Tsai Shyu
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Patent number: 6877403Abstract: A telescopic socket assembly includes an outer socket, an inner socket retractably and movably mounted in the outer socket, and an elastic member mounted between the inner socket and the outer socket. Thus, the telescopic socket assembly has an adjustable length and can be used to operate workpieces having different sizes. In addition, the telescopic socket assembly has a two-stage or three-stage position adjustment function.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Inventor: Chih-Ching Hsien
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Patent number: 6851337Abstract: A wrench for turning a gas tank yoke set screw having a transverse torque bar about a set screw axis to selectively mount the yoke on a valve body and dismount the yoke from the valve body. The wrench includes a wrench head including a face having an elongate groove extending along a central longitudinal groove axis between opposite first and second ends of the groove for receiving the torque bar. The groove has opposing side walls extending generally parallel to the central longitudinal groove axis between the first and second ends of the groove and is spaced apart by a distance generally equal to a width of the torque bar so that the groove engages the torque bar when the torque bar is received by the groove. The side walls extend inward into the wrench head from the face to a groove bottom.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2003Date of Patent: February 8, 2005Assignee: Pacific Rim Direct, Ltd.Inventor: James E. Stokes
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Publication number: 20040250661Abstract: A lug wrench having a nut-receiving socket on a shank, and a crossbar joined to the shank to extend transversely, e.g. perpendicularly, thereto. The lug wrench may include a wedge or a second socket joined to the shank. First and second handle members are joined to the first and second ends, respectively, of the crossbar to extend transversely, e.g. perpendicularly, thereto. The handle members may extend substantially parallel to an axis of the shank. The crossbar may be joined to a middle portion of each of the handle members, or the crossbar may be joined to an end of the handle members such that the handle members may extend from the crossbar in a direction away from the socket. The lug wrench is preferably symmetrical about a plane that intersects the shank and is perpendicular to the crossbar to facilitate balanced application of force to a lug nut.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Ameritech Auto Design CorporationInventor: Herman Gordon
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Publication number: 20040250662Abstract: A wrench for turning a gas tank yoke set screw having a transverse torque bar about a set screw axis to selectively mount the yoke on a valve body and dismount the yoke from the valve body. The wrench includes a wrench head including a face having an elongate groove extending along a central longitudinal groove axis between opposite first and second ends of the groove for receiving the torque bar. The groove has opposing side walls extending generally parallel to the central longitudinal groove axis between the first and second ends of the groove and is spaced apart by a distance generally equal to a width of the torque bar so that the groove engages the torque bar when the torque bar is received by the groove. The side walls extend inward into the wrench head from the face to a groove bottom.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Applicant: Pacific Rim Direct, Ltd.Inventor: James E. Stokes
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Patent number: 6725747Abstract: A wrench socket includes a socket connection portion adapted to receive a lug member. The socket connection portion has a first face and a cavity extending from an interior of the socket connection portion to the first face. This cavity is adapted to engage a lug member. The wrench socket further includes a wrench portion having inner faces which are adapted to engage the periphery of a connector. The inner faces are angularly oriented to each other and disposed along planes substantially perpendicular to the first or second face of the socket connection portion. The inner faces bound an open gripping region such that the inner faces are slidably engagable with the connector along a plane perpendicular to the inner faces. The wrench socket further includes a mid portion connecting the socket connection portion to the wrench portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Cingular Wireless, LLCInventor: Christopher Scott Erwin
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Patent number: 6626067Abstract: A device includes a body having a plurality of alternating drive regions and corner regions arranged about a central axis for cooperation to define a socket recess having an open outer end and an inner end. Each drive region has a drive surface disposed thereon and confined thereto. At least one drive surface slopes toward the central axis in a first direction generally parallel to the central axis and in a second direction generally traverse to the central axis. The device may be a rotatably driveable device for driving fasteners and the like, wherein the axis is the axis of rotation. The device can be used for retaining and driving a drive member. In one form, a drive member, comprising alternating flats and corners is inserted into the device. The flats of the drive member frictionally engage with at least two of the drive regions, thereby releaseably retaining the drive member in the body. The drive member can be rotated by rotating the body in one of the clockwise and counter-clockwise directions.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2000Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Assignee: Snap-on Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Dean J. Iwinski, Marco DeVecchis, Bert Krivec, Kurt L. Sauer
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Patent number: 6347450Abstract: The tool is for facilitating installation of a conventional cable connector to the end section of a conventional coaxial cable. The tool has a permanently T-shaped handle defining a handle grasping segment and a handle spacing segment integrally attached to the handle grasping segment at a right angle thereto. A tool fastening sleeve is attached to the handle spacing segment. The tool fastening sleeve has an external thread adapted to engage to the internal thread of the fastening sleeve which is part of the conventional cable connector. The tool fastening sleeve also has a tool fastening sleeve channel for receiving a segment of the inner conductor extending through the conductor fastening sleeve and protruding from the proximal edge of the connector fastening sleeve. The tool is adapted to be releasably secured to the conventional cable connector and used to ergonomically push the latter within the end section of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2000Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Inventors: Pierre Langlois, Gilbert Langlois
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Patent number: 6321624Abstract: A screw clamping apparatus includes a shank and a drive member for exerting a driving force on a shank to screw the same into a bore to exert a clamping force on an article. The shank is provided to shear once a predetermined turning torque from the drive member, and hence clamping force, is achieved and the plane of shear can be accurately determined relative to the surface of the article on which the bore is formed and into which the shank is screwed. This is an advantage over the conventional clamping screw, which is provided to shear at one fixed weakened location and, when sheared, can leave an undesirable protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2001Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Sicame Electrical Developments Ltd.Inventors: David Croton, Trevor Elam
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Patent number: 6286395Abstract: A ratchet handle of generally spherical shape, the handle having an embedded ratchet mechanism near one surface, the drive post of which is accessible through a diametrical channel extending from the opposite side of the sphere. An extension rod inserted into the channel mates with the drive post and extends beyond the opposite surface of the handle a selected distance to a socket wrench which may be used to drive a fastener of corresponding size. Supplemental male and female post recesses accept additional extension rods serving as lever handles and fixed, non-ratcheted drives.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2000Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Inventor: Thomas G. Frazier
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Patent number: 6209424Abstract: A screw clamping apparatus includes a shank and a drive member for exerting a driving force on a shank to screw the same into a bore to exert a clamping force on an article. The shank is provided to shear once a predetermined turning torque from the drive member, and hence clamping force, is achieved and the plane of shear can be accurately determined relative to the surface of the article on which the bore is formed and into which the shank is screwed. This is an advantage over the conventional clamping screw which is provided to shear at one fixed weakened location and, when sheared can leave an undesirable protruding portion above the surface of the article. The screw clamping apparatus of this invention allows one size shank to be used for clamping articles to different sizes and the position of the planar shear can be located at a position along the length of the shank, thereby eliminating the occurrence of protrusions when shear occurs.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1998Date of Patent: April 3, 2001Assignee: Sicame Electrical Developments Ltd.Inventors: David Croton, Trevor Elam