Combined With Or Usable As Diverse-type Wrench Patents (Class 81/437)
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Patent number: 6886432Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for accessing a Network Interface Device of a telecommunications network. The apparatus has a main body having a first end, a second end, and an interior cavity. The interior cavity is open at the first end and extends into an interior region of the main body. The interior cavity is bound by a side wall and terminates within the main body at an end wall. The second end of the main body has at least one of a square drive, a socket, and a screwdriver bit, with the square drive for attaching conventional sockets, extensions, and other tools. The second end of the main body thus allows for engagement with various types and sizes of fasteners.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2003Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: BellSouth Intellectual Property CorporationInventors: Blake R. Urban, Isaac D. M. White, James E. Dickens, Kevin Forsberg, Charles Sawyer
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Patent number: 6813978Abstract: A universal gas pressure adjustment tool for a plurality of gas pressure regulators each of which is connected in line with a pressurized natural gas supply conduit and having a pressure adjusting member which adjustably controls the outlet gas pressure of gas exiting from the regulator. Each of the adjusting members within each regulator have a different structure for engagement with, and rotatable moveable by, a particular different adjustment tool drive end configured for engagement with the particular adjusting member to effect regulation of the gas outlet pressure. The adjustment tool has an elongated body having a plurality of different end configurations, each of which is structured for mating substantially coaxial alignment and engagement with, and for axial rotatable adjustment of, a particular adjusting member. Each of the end configurations is readily accessible for use with one particular corresponding adjusting member without interference from any of the other end configurations.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2003Date of Patent: November 9, 2004Inventor: Lance D. Karpp
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Patent number: 6764301Abstract: A combination gas cylinder striker and wrench device for use with a gas cylinder having a cylinder valve with a valve stem. The device is made of a striker having a pair of wire frame members that are manipulatable to strike a spark for igniting a flammable gas from a gas cylinder. A gas cylinder wrench is affixed to one of the wire frame members. The gas cylinder wrench has a central portion having an opening therethrough that is sized to interfit with the valve stem of the gas cylinder. The central portion is located at a U-shaped area of the wire frame member to stabilize the affixation of the gas cylinder wrench to the wire frame member.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2002Date of Patent: July 20, 2004Inventors: Michael L. Paleno, Daniel T. Pirl, Jr.
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Patent number: 6742421Abstract: A screwdriver includes a hollow cylindrical body with multiple elongated holes defined in an outer periphery of the hollow cylindrical body to communicate with inside of the hollow cylindrical body. Bit compartments are provided to be pivotally connected to the hollow cylindrical body and each bit compartment is provided with a hole adapted for receiving therein a bit. A lid is integrally formed with the bit compartment to cover a corresponding elongated hole. A controlling disk is rotatably connected to a side face of the hollow cylindrical body to control pivotal movement of the bit compartments so that rotation of the controlling disk is able to pivot the bit compartments relative to the hollow cylindrical body to reveal the bits received in the holes of the bit compartments.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Inventor: Jui-Tung Chen
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Patent number: 6739224Abstract: A multifunction tool (10) has a body with an elongated section (15) with tool chuck (18) mounted at the end. The tool chuck has a square exterior (135) and hex shaped interior (139) for both mounting and storing a socket tool (137) and also holding a bit when the socket tool is stored. The body also has a cavity (76, 110, 166) for storing an elongated tool along the elongated section. The bottom of the handle has a blade sharpener (86) or a bottle opener (150) built therein.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2001Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Inventor: Richard Wershe
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Patent number: 6725486Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Oka Tool CompanyInventor: Thomas J. Oka
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Patent number: 6705183Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: March 16, 2004Assignee: Bellsouth Intellectual Property CorporationInventor: James E. Dickens
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Publication number: 20040020334Abstract: A flat metal tool having on one end a screw driver tip for the purpose of tightening or removing toilet seat screws. On the other end of the tool is a cut out indentation used as a wrench to tighten or remove the toilet flush lever nut. The single piece tool is of stainless steel or a strong composite material that will not rust while it is stored in the toilet water tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2002Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventor: David A. Kish
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Patent number: 6679142Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2003Date of Patent: January 20, 2004Inventor: Shyh-Jye Lin
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Publication number: 20030217623Abstract: A skateboard tool kit which is easily carried. The kit has a tool-conforming container with a body containing 1 tools and a snap secured cover. It is vertically disposed and is generally elongate in cross section with a narrowed neck. An extension “L”-shaped wrench has at one end a socket drive for hex sockets and at the other end a hexagonal insert which fits hexagonal cavity within a wrench receiver tower extending upward into the container, supporting two hex sockets. The extension wrench hexagonal insert is inserted into the hexagonal cavity, making the container useful as a wrench handle. The outer side of the neck portion of the container has dimples formed therein to provide for a good grip by the user. An “L”-shaped combination wrench is of hexagonal stock and has a Phillips head screwdriver head and an Allen key head.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2002Publication date: November 27, 2003Inventor: David H. Brown
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Patent number: 6626071Abstract: A multi-functional hand tool assembly includes a handle with tool attachments. The handle has opposite ends with opposite holes extending therethrough. The tool attachments are removably, interchangeably and reversibly insertable into the handle ends and each has a middle section and end tool sections connected to and extending in opposite directions from opposite ends of the middle section. Each middle section is identical to one another and has a continuous exterior surface which matches a continuous interior end surface defining each hole in a handle end such that the middle sections can snugly fit through the hole in either handle end so as to mount the tool attachments in non-rotatable relationships with the handle ends such that the tool attachments will turn with turning of the handle.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: September 30, 2003Inventors: Eric S. Kesinger, Donald A. Kesinger
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Publication number: 20030159550Abstract: A tuning key for a drum including a socket wrench element, which has a receiving opening that fits on the head of a tightening bolt used for tuning the drumhead, and a handle, which is attached to the socket wrench element. The handle is made of a hexagonal bar spanner element that has an L shape and is attached to the socket wrench element so that the spanner element is perpendicular to the axis of the socket wrench element. The socket wrench element is used as a turning handle when rotating a tightening bolt with the socket wrench element. The socket wrench element (and a part of the hexagonal bar spanner element) is used as a turning handle when rotating a hexagonal-hole bolt with the hexagonal bar spanner element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2003Publication date: August 28, 2003Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATIONInventor: Fumihiro Shigenaga
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Patent number: 6564678Abstract: A combination of tool kits is constructed to include a first tool kit having a holder base and a set of tool members installed in the holder base, a second tool kit having a holder base and a set of tool members installed in the holder base thereof, and a pair of magnetic attraction members. The magnetic attraction members are respectively mounted in the holder base of the first tool kit and the holder base of the second tool kit to provide magnetic attraction, thereby enabling the first tool kit and the second tool kit to be detachably fastened to each other by the force of the magnetic attraction.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2002Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Inventor: Lo-Pin Wang
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Patent number: 6511199Abstract: Disclosed is an innovated structure for hand tools comprising a tool accommodation apparatus and a lighting equipment for supplementary lighting or an emergency lighting source. The tool accommodation apparatus further includes a took set installed therearound consisting several kinds of hand tool. The structure is characterized in that when the tools are to be used, a selected tool is pushed forwardly and upwardly from its fixed position to the top end of the tool accommodation apparatus ready for use.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2001Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Inventor: Chih-Wen Chung
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Patent number: 6505532Abstract: A universal drain tool for use with shower and sink drains is provided. A representative drain tool includes a head containing a shaped aperture configured to engage the lock nuts of common shower and sink drains. The tool includes a handle attached to a head part. The handle allows the user to rotate the head part when the head part is engaged with the shower or sink drain. The head part can include an edge piece configured to insert into the internal lock nut slots of commonly available drop-in shower drains.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2001Date of Patent: January 14, 2003Assignee: Lawson IndustriesInventor: Thomas Michael Lawson
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Patent number: 6502483Abstract: A combination tool includes a first tool part and a second tool part. The first tool part includes a first cylindrical member connected to a handle. The said first cylindrical member has a pair of ends, at least one of which is formed to define at least a partial socket. The handle has a longitudinal bore with an open end. The second tool part includes a first rod that is insertable in the bore of the handle.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2001Date of Patent: January 7, 2003Assignee: Tum Yeto, Inc.Inventors: Tod Swank, Matthew J. Barker, Joshua Z. Beagle
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Publication number: 20020178875Abstract: A combination wrench hammer set includes a handle rod having two upright sidewalls, a combination tool head pivoted to one end of the handle rod, the combination tool head having a hollow angular socket at one end and a hammer head-shaped adjusting screw threaded into the hollow angular socket, and a handgrip structure mounted in one end of the handle rod remote from the combination tool head, the handgrip structure including a handle cover pivoted to a middle part of the handle rod and adapted to keep tools and tool bits, and an end block fixedly fastened to the handle rod, the end block having at least one polygonal tool coupling hole for holding the selected tool bit for working.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2001Publication date: December 5, 2002Inventor: Yuan-Ho Lin
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Patent number: 6418821Abstract: A socket tool for alternative use in combination with a screw driver or a conventional wrench. A socket body is formed so as to fit externally over a driver bit and is movable axially therealong and is detachable therefrom but is non-rotatable relative to the driver bit over its length. Socket portions are provided on opposite end portions of the socket body, with internal dimensions different from one another. Outer peripheries of the socket portions at both ends of the socket body are formed into regular polygonal shapes in cross section and serve as external drive engaging faces, to be engaged externally by the wrench. The outer peripheries of both the socket portions have external diameters different from one another. The socket tool is held alternatively on either the driver bit or the wrench, with one of the socket portions engaging the driver bit or wrench and the other socket portion projecting longitudinally away therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2000Date of Patent: July 16, 2002Assignee: Sangadensetsukogyo Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiko Yamakawa
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Publication number: 20020083804Abstract: The removal tool is used in connection with a locking nut and bolt system. The bolt thread has a plurality of notches generally longitudinally spaced in a predetermined pattern. The locking unit or element carries one or more tines. The tine has a distal tine end adapted to latch onto the lock face of the notch on the bolt and, when the distal tine end is not disposed in one or more notches, the tine end moves on the bolt thread crest. When the distal tine end is in the notch or notches, the lock face of the notch prevents counter-rotational movement of the bolt with respect to the nut when the distal tine end abuts the lock face. The locking unit supports the tine and may be cylindrical, rectangular or on a perpendicular support face normal to a radial plane through the axial centerline of the nut thread. The locking unit may be on a nut insert or may be carried on the leg of a U, J or S-shaped clip.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Robert J. DiStasio, Stephen G. Bowling, Carl Richard Stanley, David Ruyl Luster, Irwin I. Silberman, William Kurt Feick
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Patent number: 6363820Abstract: A hand tool is used to drive a fastener about an axis, and includes a handle with an axially extending bore for receiving frictionally a fastener engaging member. The engaging member has an axially extending inner surrounding surface, and an inner peripheral wall which extends radially and inwardly to define a mounting hole communicating with the inner surrounding surface. A deformable member is inserted into the mounting hole, and has a protrusion extending inwardly of the inner surrounding surface when the engaging member is received in the handle. A bit, which includes two screwdriver tip ends and a shaft, is brought to be inserted into and is coupled to rotate with the engaging member axially such that the protrusion frictionally engages the shaft radially so as to hinder removal of the bit from the engaging member axially.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Inventor: Chieh-Jen Hsiao
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Patent number: 6345436Abstract: A valve adjusting and injector preload tool is provided for an internal combustion engine having a valve opening member with a male threaded member operatively and adjustably contacting the valve. The tool includes a first member engagable with the threaded member for rotating the threaded member towards or away from the valve. There is a knob for rotating the first member in a first rotational direction so the male threaded member moves towards the valve and for rotating the first member in a second rotational direction so the male threaded member moves away from the valve. There is a clutch for stopping movement of the first member, as the male threaded member moves towards the valve, when the male threaded member operatively contacts the valve and takes up play between the valve opening member and the valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1999Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Inventor: Ernest Richardson Codrington
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Patent number: 6339981Abstract: A tool is described for adjusting a slack adjuster. A slack adjuster includes an adjustment bolt and a sealing plate disposed about the adjustment bolt. The tool includes an end including a hex-shaped aperture for engaging the hex-shaped head of the adjustment bolt. The tool also includes an annular face including a pair of spaced apart pins for engaging the sealing plate. A hex is formed on the outer surface of the tool for engagement by a wrench.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: Koochin Trucking Ltd.Inventor: Carey Andrew Koochin
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Patent number: 6336385Abstract: A bicycle tool set comprises a first tool member, a second tool member, and a case for housing the first tool member and the second tool member. The first tool member is provided with a tenon, whereas the second tool member is provided with a mortise. The first and the second tool members are detachably held together by the tenon which is rotatably received in the mortise. As the tenon is turned an angle, the two tool members are held securely. The second tool member can be used as wrenches of various forms. The case is provided with a seat for locating the bicycle tool set on a bicycle. The second tool member is also capable of holding a variety of hand tools.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2000Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Inventor: Lo-Pin Wang
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Publication number: 20010045144Abstract: A tool to grip the outer periphery of an object being adaptable, for example, to remove a collar locked to the threaded shaft of a frangible fastener or operate as a drill stop. The tool includes an outer cylinder having a threaded portion and an inner cylinder having complementary threaded portion. A collet is disposed in the volume defined by the outer cylinder and is positioned to receive an axial force from the inner cylinder when translated via rotation with respect to the outer cylinder. The collet has a segment removed to permit the collet to decrease in size upon application of a constrictive radial force. The collet further has a frusto-conical outer surface that acts upon a complementary surface on the inner portion of the outer cylinder. When the collet is acted upon by the inner cylinder, a compressive radial force is applied thereto, which results in the collet constricting to securely and nearly uniformly grasp any object located within the collet.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2001Publication date: November 29, 2001Inventor: Travis McClure
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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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Publication number: 20010035079Abstract: A multi-functional hand tool assembly includes a handle with tool attachments. The handle has opposite ends with opposite holes extending therethrough. The tool attachments are removably, interchangeably and reversibly insertable into the handle ends and each has a middle section and end tool sections connected to and extending in opposite directions from opposite ends of the middle section. Each middle section is identical to one another and has a continuous exterior surface which matches a continuous interior end surface defining each hole in a handle end such that the middle sections can snugly fit through the hole in either handle end so as to mount the tool attachments in non-rotatable relationships with the handle ends such that the tool attachments will turn with turning of the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2001Publication date: November 1, 2001Inventors: Eric S. Kesinger, Donald A. Kesinger
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Patent number: 6305254Abstract: A combination tool kit includes an elongated casing, a hexagon head socket holder mounted in the casing between front and rear ends of the casing and holding a set of hexagon head sockets adapted for turning bolts and nuts, a combination wrench pivoted to the front end of casing, the combination wrench having an open end and a box end at two distal ends thereof adapted for grasping and turning bolts and nuts, and a hexagonal spanner block pivoted to the rear end of casing, the hexagonal spanner block having a hexagonal box adapted to work with one of the hexagon head sockets stored in the hexagon head socket holder for turning bolts and nuts.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Inventor: Chih-Ching Hsieh
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Patent number: 6305255Abstract: A modular screwdriver includes an elongated hollow handle, a first sleeve, a second sleeve, and a connecting rod. The first and second sleeves are mounted removably on two ends of the handle. The connecting rod extends through the handle, and can be locked releasably at a first position, where one of the first and second sleeves functions as a wrench, and a second position, where the other one of the first and second sleeves functions as a wrench. Each of the first and second sleeves has a central bore, which is formed therethrough and which has two hexagonal-cross-sectioned end portions of different sizes. All of the end portions of the central bores in the first and second sleeves are different from each other in size. Because either of the ends of each of the first and second sleeves can be mounted removably on the handle, each of the first and second sleeves can be inverted. As such, the screwdriver has four wrench units of different sizes.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Inventor: Chih-Ming Wu
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Patent number: 6282998Abstract: Being useful with a rotary driving tool powered electrically or pneumatically, a fastener-driving accessory comprises a collar-mounting stem and two interchangeable collars, each being mountable coaxially and removably on the stem and being secured removably when mounted thereon. The collar-mounting stem has a collar-mounting portion having a distal end and having a polygonal cross-section. Each collar defines a stem-receiving socket, which has a similar but larger cross-section and into which the collar-mounting portion can be non-rotatably plugged. A fastener-driving collar defines a fastener-driving socket having a cross-section conforming to the cross-section of the stem-receiving socket so that the stem-receiving and fastener-driving sockets are interchangeable. A bit-mounting collar accommodates a fastener-driving bit having a socket-fitting portion, which has a polygonal cross-section conforming to the polygonal cross-section of the collar-mounting portion of the stem, and a fastener-driving portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1998Date of Patent: September 4, 2001Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: John R. Beach
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Patent number: 6279434Abstract: The present invention is directed to a tool for use on a skateboard and easily carried in a pants pocket of a user. The tool has a body is in the general shape of a “T” having a crossbar bisected by a stem and provides for three sockets of differing sizes, one of each being mounted at each end of the crossbar and the free end of the stem. Provision is also made for carrying a combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver and is in the general form of a standard Allen wrench having a long arm and a short arm normal to the long arm. This provision constitutes a cylindrical cavity with an opening at the intersection of the crossbar and stem and extending into the stem for distance adequate to accommodate the long arm of the combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver, which preferably is the Phillips head portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2000Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Inventor: David H. Brown
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Publication number: 20010006014Abstract: In one preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to a driving tool for use in driving at least two drivable objects, including a first drivable object and a second drivable object. The tool includes: a tubular body having an inner surface defining a longitudinal bore which includes a front socket portion adapted to drive the first drivable object; a retractable bit disposed within the longitudinal bore, the bit being axially, non-rotatably movable within the longitudinal bore, and the bit having a tip portion adapted to drive the second drivable object; a spring disposed in the longitudinal bore behind the retractable bit for forwardly biasing the bit; and a cap removably disposed on the rear of the tubular body, the cap closing the rear of the longitudinal bore and supporting the rear of the spring. Thus, the retractable bit is removably disposed in the longitudinal bore.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 1999Publication date: July 5, 2001Inventors: G. STEPHEN COWART, THOMAS P. BECKMANN
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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
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Patent number: 6155143Abstract: The present invention relates to a screwdriver having expanding and folding action. The inside of its handle has a duct of the axial direction, a screw rod body penetrating the duct to slide back and forth, so as to jut out of the handle for a predetermined length, or to be received in the handle; a retaining device disposed in the handle and retains the rod body so as to cause the shank to be retained and located at a predetermined protruded length; the retaining device can be operated and controlled by a human hand to relieve the shank of the state of being retained.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1998Date of Patent: December 5, 2000Inventor: Shu-Te Wu
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Patent number: 6138537Abstract: A multi-tip tool includes a push button assembly, a cylinder assembly having a plurality of chambers for receiving working tips, and a drive shaft. The drive shaft is coupled to the cylinder assembly for longitudinal movement through a chamber and transverse movement relative to the cylinder. The drive shaft is movable transversely between an engaged position and a disengaged position and longitudinally between the engaged position and a replacement position. The cylinder assembly includes a central conduit, the plurality of chambers being arranged circumferentially around the central conduit, and a plurality of passages connecting the plurality of chambers with the central conduit. The drive shaft is movable through one of the plurality of passages between the engaged position and the replacement position. The multi-tip tool further includes a push button assembly coupled to the cylinder assembly.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1999Date of Patent: October 31, 2000Inventor: Teresa M. Cole
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Patent number: 6112351Abstract: A clam shell tool assembly apparatus containing a number of tools for bicycle repair, comprising: a walled base having two side walls, a front wall, and a rear wall, the side walls, front wall, and rear wall cooperating to form a first tray adapted to hold a first tool set; a walled top having two side walls and a front wall, the side walls and front wall cooperating to form a second tray adapted to hold a second tool set; a first mounting means adapted to pivotally mount the first tool set on the walled base; a second mounting means adapted to pivotally mount the second tool set on the walled top; and the walled base further having a groove mating with a projection on the walled top, whereby the walled base and walled top slide together to form a clam shell enclosure surrounding the first tool set and second tool set.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: Bicycle Tools IncorporatedInventors: Eric H. Hawkins, Pierre A. G. Oster
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Patent number: 6077267Abstract: A bone screw comprises a threaded shank having an axis of rotation. A head is integral with the shank, and the head includes a surface disposed generally normal to the axis. A plurality of drive receivers are disposed about the surface wholly remote from the axis. Each of the drive receivers is adapted for engagement with a cooperating driver element of a rotary driver so that the head and thereby the shank may be rotated about the axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1995Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Inventor: Donald R. Huene
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Patent number: 6016728Abstract: The multi-purpose tool includes many useful features. The tool has an adjustable wrench, such as a crescent wrench, on one end and a hollow bore for receiving a number of different tools on the other. The tools that are received in the bore are positioned on opposing ends of elongated members and are reversible in the bore to expose the desired tool. The tool can include an extension that fits over the exposed tool (which thereby acts as a connecting piece) to provide additional capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1998Date of Patent: January 25, 2000Inventor: Russell D. Bohl
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Patent number: 5916341Abstract: A combination screwdriver is composed of a handle and a variety of screwdriver sockets and screwdriver blades having different tips, such as a slotted tip, hexagonal tip, Phillips tip. The handle has a hexagonal shank engageable with the screwdriver sockets, screwdriver blades, and a top seat for keeping the screwdriver blades. The handle is provided with a side seat fastened therewith. The side seat is intended to keep the screwdriver blades and the screwdriver sockets. The side seat has a hook engageable with a worker's waist belt.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 1998Date of Patent: June 29, 1999Inventor: Pi-Lien Lin
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Patent number: 5819610Abstract: A new combination hand tool for permitting removal of variously shaped stoppers or bungs from a barrel. The inventive device includes an elongate handle member with a tool member mounted on it at one end. The tool member has a plurality of flat tab portions for insertion into a slot provided on a bung and a web portion having a hex-shaped hole extending through it for engaging securing nuts provided on a bung.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1997Date of Patent: October 13, 1998Inventor: Cameron Brannan
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Patent number: 5791203Abstract: The crank arm of a bicycle is detachably secured to a receiving portion of the crank axle by disposing the receiving portion within a tapered hole formed in an inner side of the crank arm and threadedly engaging a bolt within a threaded hole in the receiving portion by applying a wrench through an axial hole of a bolt cover which is threadedly engaged within a threaded portion formed in an outer side of the crank arm.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 1996Date of Patent: August 11, 1998Inventors: Chia-Lung Chen, Yin-Dong Liu, Long-Shui Wu
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Patent number: 5778896Abstract: A pipe for use in smoking tobacco including a hollow stem having a mouth end structured as a small tool socket for grasping nuts and bolt heads, and for holding a removable screw driver rod. A tobacco bowl at the opposite end of the stem includes a sidewall defining an open mouth with the sidewall structured as a tool socket. The pipe can be stored by insertion into an elongated tubular hollow housing having a relatively large tool socket at one end, and a smaller tool socket at the opposite end in a sidewall of the housing. In a sidewall of the housing adjacent to the smaller socket is a receiving notch with inward extending lips. The pipe bowl extends 90 degrees to the stem and includes multiple grooves on its exterior surface to allow the bowl to be inserted into and grasped by the receiving notch lips to define a generally L-shaped or T-shaped overall tool shape for grasping by hand for use of the included sockets and screw driver.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 1997Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Inventors: Robert L. Seals, Michael J. Okoniewski
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Patent number: 5685206Abstract: A multi-purpose tool is provided and includes first and second elongate body members each having first and second ends. A torque surface is formed at one of the first and second ends of each of the body members. The torque surfaces are adapted for engagement with workpiece surfaces such as the flats of polygonal fastening elements. Driver heads are formed at the other ends of the body members and are adapted for engagement in slots of slotted fastening elements with the first body member driver head configured differently from the second body member driver head. The body members are secured together to allow relative movement therebetween with the torque surface of the first body member and the torque surface of the second body member generally facing each other to define an adjustable opening therebetween. The driver heads of the body members are adjacent to each other for exposing one of the heads beyond the other.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1996Date of Patent: November 11, 1997Inventor: James W. Ma
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Patent number: 5680800Abstract: A socket drive extension grip for securing to a socket drive extension to provide greater flexibility to the use of a socket tool. The socket drive extension includes a handle, a shaft tube secured within the handle and for receiving the shaft of a socket drive extension and a clamping device for securely holding the socket drive extension within the handle and shaft tube and preventing the shaft from rotating.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 1995Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Inventor: Jon B. Sharpe
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Patent number: 5652988Abstract: A multifunctional hand-held device has a plate-like body around the circumference of which are shaped various tools which project from the body. Other tools having different functions are formed by recesses or indentations arranged around the circumference and formed in the plate-like body. An embodiment of the hand-held device looks approximately like a frog with a head, a neck and two legs. The device is made of metal.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1995Date of Patent: August 5, 1997Inventor: Hubert Appelhoff
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Patent number: 5632056Abstract: A bicycle tool assembly which includes a hollow handle, a coupling block fastened to one end of the handle by a tongue-and-groove joint to hold a driving element, for example, an open-end spanner, a box-end spanner, a hexagonal wrench, a cabinet tip, a Phillips head tip, or a hexagonal head tip, and a tire repair tool slidably mounted in an opposite end of the hollow handle, the tire repair tool having a front hook for pulling a bicycle tire out of the rim, a tire pressure releasing pin in the middle for fastening to the valve of the bicycle tire to release the pressure of the inner tube, and a coupling tail engaged with a tapered hole in the hollow handle to hold the tire repair tool in the operative position.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1996Date of Patent: May 27, 1997Inventor: Chia-Yuan Hsiao
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Patent number: 5520075Abstract: A one-piece socket having a hole therethrough with a rear recess for receiving the shaft of a driver tool, and a front recess for receiving the head of the workpiece (bolt) to be worked on. The hole includes a small segment for securing a key therein, the key being adjustable to extend into the front recess, and therebeyond to the exterior, selectively. The front recess engages convex surfaces on the workpiece and the key engages concave surfaces thereon. In an alternate form, the key is fixed and extends only into the recess.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1991Date of Patent: May 28, 1996Inventor: Thomas C. Barmore
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Patent number: 5480166Abstract: A multi-purpose tool holder is described, which includes an elongated cylindrical barrel having a non-circular socket in one end for attachment of the barrel to a ratchet-type turning implement. The other end of the barrel forms a slideway for two transversely adjustable jaws that have facing V-shaped grooves designed to grip tool shanks of varying size and shape. An adjusting screw is provided for each jaw, such that the jaws can be held in selected positions of adjustment. The elongated barrel is usable between a turning implement and tool shank gripped by the adjustable jaws. The elongated barrel can also be used as a handle to perform a tool turning operation. For this purpose various sockets are formed in the side surface of the barrel. The shanks of selected tools can be selectively inserted into the various sockets to operatively connect the barrel to the tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1994Date of Patent: January 2, 1996Inventor: Edward Milsop
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Patent number: 5460063Abstract: A combined screwdriver and nut driver wherein multi-bit screwdriver is on one end and an adjustable nutdriver on the other end for easy transportation.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1994Date of Patent: October 24, 1995Inventor: Donald E. Hodgson
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Patent number: 5450774Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 1994Date of Patent: September 19, 1995Inventor: Wong-Lien Chang
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Patent number: 5442845Abstract: A unitary tool and method for adjusting and measuring the valve stroke in an injection blow mold core rod assembly which utilizes a lock/star nut and cam/hex nut arrangement to limit valve stroke. The tool is mountable on the end of the core rod and includes a pair of centerless hollow wrenches which can independently engage and rotate the star nut and cam nut, respectively. The tool also includes a push rod located within the wrenches which can be placed in contact with the hex nut so as to transmit the position of the hex nut and hence any movement of the core rod valve assembly on which the hex nut is fastened. A dial indicator is carried by the tool and arranged so as to have its sensor rod in position to be contacted by the push rod.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1993Date of Patent: August 22, 1995Inventor: Robert B. Callender