Inserted Portion Having Plural, Separate, Work-engaging Projections Patents (Class 81/461)
  • Patent number: 6554173
    Abstract: A Robertson driver is disclosed which has a slot (10) in the end of the tip (12) that can fit over a wire, enabling the user to manipulate the wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Inventor: Neil L. Currie
  • Patent number: 6474199
    Abstract: A drain installation apparatus for installing a drain assembly in a drain hole of a plumbing fixture. The drain installation apparatus includes a bridging member for bridging over the drain hole. A support member extends toward the drain hole when the bridging member is positioned over the drain hole. A holding member engages a top of the drain assembly. A handle member is mounted on the support member for being gripped by a hand of a user to rotate the support member. An attachment member is mounted on the bridging member for releasably mounting on an inner surface of the plumbing fixture adjacent to the drain hole. A cup member engages an upper fastener of the drain assembly. A lower handle member is mounted on the cup member for gripping by the hand of the user to produce rotation of the cup member. An engaging member engages a lower fastener of the drain assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Inventor: Andras Szasz
  • Patent number: 6341927
    Abstract: A tamper resistant fastener, which can only be rotated with a specific key, is described. The fastener includes a head for rotation about a vertical axis. The head is provided with the least two cutouts in the head of the faster spaced away from the vertical axis, the cutouts having a discontinuous sidewall. The side wall of each of the cutouts has a first generally vertical engaging surface for engagement by a mating member on a specific key for clockwise rotation of the head about the vertical axis and a second generally vertical engaging surface for engagement by the mating member on the specific key for counter clockwise rotation of the head about vertical axis. The side wall of the cutout is interrupted adjacent the second engaging surface to prevent engagement by a tool other than the specific key and thereby prevent rotation of the fastener in a counter clockwise direction by a tool other than the specific key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Pinhead Components Inc.
    Inventors: Kip Hampson, Todd Ivanochko, Linda Young
  • Patent number: 6280620
    Abstract: An oil filter body with two protruding tabs positioned to rest flush with the top edge of the oil filter. The key is a plastic unit designed to fit over the top of the oil filter and the key has two male posts which correspond to and fit into the filter's protruding female tabs. The key has a handle-like grip providing the user with a secure and comfortable grasp on the tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Inventor: L. David Duran
  • Patent number: 6272953
    Abstract: A tool for rotating athletic shoe cleats having an annular body with gripping projections extending from one side thereof, a threaded shank extending from an opposing side thereof, and torquing openings adapted to receive prongs of a conventional cleat tool. The turning tool is able to thread the cleats into and out from internally threaded openings of an athletic shoe to provide fast cleat change-out operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2001
    Inventor: Stephen D. Kant
  • Patent number: 6161456
    Abstract: A shielded spike tool for removing and installing spike elements from sports shoes, the shielded spike tool including a tool head with an engagement structure extending from a first surface thereof, and a shank extending from a second surface thereof, opposite the engagement structure. A shield is carried by the shank and encircles the tool head. The shield is movable along the shank between an extended position and a retracted position, with a biasing structure urging the shield into the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Inventor: Don C. Langford
  • Patent number: 6155146
    Abstract: A tuning wrench for tuning optical fiber connectors has an enlarged portion from which extends a limiting portion having a diameter greater than the diameter of the opening in the ferrule housing portion of an optical connector. A tubular member protrudes from the limiting portion and has an internal diameter dimensioned to slide over the connector ferrule. The distal end of the tubular member has a pair of tangs adapted to fit within or openings in the front of the flange portion of the ferrule-barrel member of the connector. The distance from the face of the limiting member to the tangs is such that axial pressure on the wrench moves the flange rearwardly out of engagement with its housing but the face of the limiting member butts against the front of the housing before the spring member within the housing bottoms. Rotation of the wrench thus causes rotation of the ferrule-barrel assembly to alter the angular orientation of the eccentricity vector of the ferrule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Scott R. Andrews, Norman Roger Lampert, Robert Wayne Mock, Gregory A. Sandels, Naif Taleb Subh
  • Patent number: 6148699
    Abstract: A screwdriver has a shaft with a bit on one end for engaging a bit receptacle formed on a head of a screw and a screw engaging device coupled to and in surrounding relation to the shaft. The screw engaging device defines a cylindrical void configured to receive and place the head of the screw onto the bit. The inner wall of the screw engaging device defining the cylindrical void has at least one tab extending toward the center of the center of the cylindrical void for engaging the head of the screw. Preferably, there are four tabs disposed evenly space on the inner wall of the screw engaging device. The screw engaging device has a first sleeve defining the cylindrical void and oppositely disposed slots. A second sleeve is coupled to the first sleeve to form the cylindrical void for receiving the shaft therethrough. The shaft has oppositely facing receptacles formed on the outer circumference of the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Inventor: Ki Su Han
  • Patent number: 6116120
    Abstract: Disclosed is a tool for applying torque to a CPU fan unit and mounting the fan unit onto a mounting structure. The tool includes a pair of mounting pins for engaging the CPU fan unit. The position of the mounting pins is adjustable so that the tool may be used to apply torque to fan units of various sizes. The pins on the tool are configured to be inserted into mounting notches on the outer housing of the fan unit so that torque may be transferred from the tool to the fan unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Micron Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Craig L. Boe
  • Patent number: 6095017
    Abstract: This original work is to provide a dish type brake cylinder adjustment device improved structure. It includes a pulling disc and a driving wrench; the center of the disc surface of the entire pulling disc and protruding upwards has a position fixing shaft with hollow center and in a round pole shape. In the two ends of the diameter of that position fixing shaft there is one concave connecting hole. The end surface of the perimeter predetermined radius has at least one indented positioning hole to provide a positioning pole for positioning the shaft. That driving wrench is manual rotation shaft driving. The end of the shaft direction has a driving disc. The center of that driving disc has receiving concave part, in the middle there is a strong magnet. The perimeter of that receiving concave part correspond to the connecting hole position of that driving disc and protruding upwards there are two position fixing protruding pole to provide rapid attracting attachment to connect to that pulling disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Inventor: Shu Yung Long
  • Patent number: 6089396
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for fastening two members together with a theft resistant screw having a head with a top surface which is free of any engageable indentations or protrusions, with an independent tool means to drive the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Inventor: Juraj Pozek
  • Patent number: 6076435
    Abstract: A tool for multiple purposes including turning valve wheels, opening drum plugs and vents, driving sockets, turning screws, use as a drift pin and prying, among other possible uses, the tool having a handle and an exterior shank and an interior shank, each shank having a square cross section and being in a spaced relationship and parallel to one another located at one end of the handle, the opposite end of the handle having an edge and the handle being tapered, the interior shank which is located furthest from the end of the handle having an outer end with a reduced size set off center so that the wall of that shank toward the edge is aligned along the entire interior shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Inventors: Andrew C. White, Sr., Mitchell I. Rapoport, Gregory R. Becker
  • Patent number: 6053078
    Abstract: A wrench for threading and unthreading soft golf spikes in and out of golf shoes, having a circular body with a first end surface, a second end surface. The includes a plurality of prongs projecting a predetermined length from the second end surface, wherein each of the prongs has a sharp pointed tip for penetrating a soft golf spike. The wrench further includes a cylindrical wall depending from the second end surface for automatically aligning the prongs of the wrench over a soft golf spike to be threaded or unthreaded in or out of a golf shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: PST Products, Inc.
    Inventors: James Parker, Jeffrey St. Thomas
  • Patent number: 6053079
    Abstract: A tool for manipulating threaded ball joint stud locating bushings at a threaded bore in an axle housing is disclosed. The tool includes a support mountable to the ball joint stud to provide stable location of an extractor assemblage receiving the support therethrough. The extractor assemblage includes portions for engaging the bushing and for securing engagement with the bushing during manipulation of the extractor assemblage to thus rotate the bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2000
    Assignee: Ingalls Engineering Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary L. Sokol, Ted S. Golas
  • Patent number: 6029550
    Abstract: A rear disc brake piston tool for use in combination with a drive ratchet to rotate a piston associated with a brake caliper is comprised of a cast metal cube with throughbores to receive the drive ratchet and projecting pins on each cube face to engage with piston cavities of various configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: The Lisle Corporation
    Inventor: Danny L. Williams
  • Patent number: 6016727
    Abstract: A fastener with a recessed drive socket and a driving tool with a cooperable driving head. The socket having a cylindrical interior wall interrupted by a plurality of driving corners. The driver having a tapered driving head including a plurality of sharpened driving edges adapted to engage the driving corners. The tapered driving end may be axially forced into the driving socket such that the plurality of driving edges frictionally engage the driving corners to hold the fastener on the driver and to enhance torque transmission. The cylindrical walls of the socket and the walls of the driver bit between the driving edges cooperate to define a fluid channel for passage of fluid around the driving head during positioning within the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Sofamor Danek Properties, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank H. Morgan
  • Patent number: 5957011
    Abstract: A new four wheel drive locking hub tool for locking unlocking manual wheel hubs of four wheel drive vehicles. The inventive device includes a handle portion having a T-shaped configuration. The handle portion includes a horizontal segment and a vertical segment with the vertical segment extending outwardly from the horizontal segment in an orthogonal relationship. A base portion is provided having a rectangular configuration. An upper surface of the base portion is integrally formed with a free end of the vertical segment of the handle portion. A mating portion extends downwardly from the base portion and dimensioned for engaging a recessed locking hub of a wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Inventor: John H. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5906147
    Abstract: A coupling assembly couples a drive portion of a torque wrench to a bolt ing a head formed with spanner wrench holes in a top thereof and an annular groove therearound. A base engages the annular groove until it is in coaxial alignment with the bolt. Aligning holes in the base are alignable with at least two of the bolt's spanner wrench holes. Each of a plurality of pins sized for sliding engagement with the aligning holes and the spanner wrench holes are fixed in relation to one another by a yoke. The yoke further aligns the pins with the aligning holes. A collar nut engages the base to retain the yoke thereagainst thereby locking the assembly to the head of the bolt. The base is shaped to receive the drive portion of a torque wrench.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Abner B. Price, III
  • Patent number: 5904081
    Abstract: A threaded fastener and mating driver system is used to apply a uniform torque to the entire fastener body and thereby facilitate removal of stuck fasteners. The driver tool is a two stage driver with one stage driving the inner bore of the fastener and the second stage driving the fastener head. The two driver stages are linked via a series of pins, each pin acting as an individual lever, such that the two drivers apply torque equally to the fastener. The entire driver assembly is housed in a block which can be attached to a standard ratchet or driving tool. The fastener is designed to be installed using a single stage screwdriver and normally has a foil seal covering the bore drive portion of the fastener. If the fastener becomes stuck, the foil seal is broken and the two stage drive system, including a bore driver and a screw head driver, is inserted into the fastener to effect additional removal torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Santa Barbara Sensor Technologies
    Inventors: William H. Cushman, John J. Brooks, Craig J. Kent, Allen L. Deforrest, Thomas E. Wolverton
  • Patent number: 5901424
    Abstract: There is provided a trocar button having an enlarged flat head at the larger exterior end connecting with a conical body and a pointed bulbous end. The large part of the conical body connects with the enlarged flat head. Between the small part of the conical body and the pointed bulbous end there is a neck. In the body of the trocar button including the enlarged flat head, the conical body, the neck, and part of the pointed bulbous end, there is a cavity. With the removal of the pointed bulbous end at the neck, there is created a through passageway in the trocar button. A needle attached to a syringe, can be inserted in the through passageway and into the interior of the cadaver. Then, an embalming fluid can be forced through the needle and into the interior of the cadaver. Also, the through passageway allows gas in the cadaver to escape. Further, if there be a liquid in the cadaver some of that liquid can collect in the passageway. On the exterior of the conical body there is a thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Inventor: Charles W. Rector
  • Patent number: 5887496
    Abstract: A wrench for soft spike assemblies. The wrench provides a wrench head and a ribbed handle. The wrench head includes a plurality of symmetrically-spaced torque members and insert grip members, the former designed to frictionally engage the individual spikes and the latter designed to engage and grasp the perimeter of the spike assembly thereby facilitating hands-free installation and removal of the spike assemblies. The handle is provided with a hexagonal insert passage fore receiving an Allen-type wrench which may be used to provide increased torque in installing or removing a soft spike assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Inventors: Owen Craig Pollard, Mark J. Ziminsky
  • Patent number: 5875694
    Abstract: A tool for use in the installation and removal of golf spikes from the sole of a golf shoe. The golf spikes are of the type made of plastic and having a ground-engaging surface. Projections are formed on this surface, defining a variety of patterns such as a spiral pattern consisting of a plurality of curvilinear ridge portions extending radially outwardly from the center of the spike to the outer edge thereof. A plurality of rills are formed in the spike surface with a rill located between each pair of adjacent ridge portions. The tool comprises a head portion and a concave recessed surface defined by the head portion for engagement with the ground engaging surface of the spike. The recessed surface of the tool defines a plurality of spaced-apart projections dimensioned to be received within the spike rills, and a plurality of curvilinear recesses with each recess being located between each pair of adjacent projections. Each recess is dimensioned to receive one of the spike ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1999
    Inventor: Raymond J. Graf
  • Patent number: 5873290
    Abstract: A hexagonal head wrench having a body, six sides and six corners. A protuberance is formed on each corner. Each protuberance has two oppositely oriented flank members angled at a predetermined angle outwardly and away from each corner. Engagement of the wrench with a fastener occurs on a portion of each respective flank member distal from the corner. Continued application of torque progressively radially engages each flank member with the fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: Hand Tool Design Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Constantine Chaconas
  • Patent number: 5865078
    Abstract: A spike removal tool (30, 50, 60, 70, 90, 110) for removing spike elements (14, 125) from sporting shoes (10), the spike elements (14, 125) rotatable in a first direction relative to the shoe (10) for installation and rotatable in a second direction relative to the shoe (10) for removal, the tool (30, 50, 60, 70, 90, 110) including a tool head (35, 52, 62, 72, 92, 112) having an axis of rotation, rotatable in the second direction to engage the spike element (14, 125) and including a first surface (38, 53, 73, 93, 113), a second surface (39, 52A, 62A, 72A, 93A, 113A) opposing the first surface, an engagement means carried by the first surface (38, 53, 73, 93, 113), for engaging the spike element (14, 125) and a bore (42, 55, 65, 75, 95, 117) extending centrally through the first surface into the tool head (35, 52, 62, 72, 92, 112) toward the second surface (39, 52A, 62A, 72A, 93A, 113A) along the axis of rotation, a shank (32, 51, 61, 71, 91, 111) extending from the second surface of the tool head (35, 52, 62,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1999
    Inventor: Don Langford
  • Patent number: 5862725
    Abstract: A double-ended socket for antenna nuts includes a central hexagonal body section separated into two parts by a flange. The socket further includes a collar with lugs extending axially from each end of the center body section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1999
    Assignee: Lisle Corporation
    Inventor: Joel A. Negus
  • Patent number: 5845552
    Abstract: A tool for removing an oil filter cartridge cap threadably attached to an engine has pins for engaging oil passage holes in the cartridge cap after the filter cartridge housing is partly removed to remove the filter cartridge, thereby exposing the cartridge cap. The tool includes a drive disk adapted to be engaged by a wrench and an interchangeable base disk to be engaged by the drive disk and having the aforesaid pins for engaging the oil passage holes. Plural base disks are provided to match filters having different hole patterns. A central hole in each disk provides clearance for the threaded nipple by which the oil filter cartridge cap is threadably attached to the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Inventor: Jerome Paul Phillip Piascik
  • Patent number: 5829324
    Abstract: A new Extractor for Damaged Light Bulbs for removing the base of a broken light bulb from a socket easily and safely. The inventive device includes a four tiered flexible plastic tool a threaded part and a handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Inventor: Harold E. Secor
  • Patent number: 5813297
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tool having first and second cooperating jaws connected by a pivot. Each jaw includes a gripping surface and two side surfaces, and each jaw has a nose end that is remote from the pivot. Handle means causes the jaws to close about the pivot. There is a groove in the gripping surface of each of the jaws extending to the nose end of the jaw. The grooves lie along the longitudinal axis that lies in a plane extending between the gripping surfaces of the closed jaws. A cavity that is deeper than the grooves is formed in both of the jaws at the ends of the grooves opposite the nose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 29, 1998
    Inventor: John Zepkowski
  • Patent number: 5797301
    Abstract: A circular hand held wheel hub wrench having a hand grip with dual fork prong structure attached thereto for engaging the turn bar or wheel hub turn bar extensions of four wheel axle drive exterior engaged wheel hubs having two opposed finger depressions on both sides of a turn bar to allow the fork prong structure to be inserted therein to grasp the turn bar or wheel hub turn bar extensions to turn the wheel hub to engage and disengage a wheel axle drive as the hand grip is turned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Inventor: Mark Huenke
  • Patent number: 5772373
    Abstract: A spindle nut and a locking device are disclosed for securing the nut on a spindle in a non-rotative position relative to the spindle. The assembly comprises the spindle nut, an antirotation spring and a spring backup plate mounted on the spindle. The antirotation spring and spring backup plate may be formed as a single unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1998
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip J. Cronin, II, Lonnie G. Williams, Jr., Thomas F. Dunlap, David C. Wood, Jon A. Bigley, Stuart Miller, James D. Hensley
  • Patent number: 5690005
    Abstract: A tool for installing and torquing a tensioning nut onto a tie rod of a shroud repair apparatus. The nut torquing tool has a socket for coupling with the tensioning nut and an adaptor for coupling with a manually operated handling pole, wherein the axis of rotation of the socket is radially displaced relative to the axis of rotation of the adaptor. The respective shafts connected to the socket and adaptor are coupled by means of a pair of sprockets and a chain which convert rotation of the adaptor into rotation of the socket. The distance between the sprockets can be adjusted to tension the chain. The handling pole adaptor is connected to a drive shaft by way of a universal joint, a torque limiter and a torque multiplier. Incorporation of a torque multiplier facilitates installation and torquing of the tensioning nut in a single operation using a lightweight handling pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Wing G. Jung, John Allan Sies
  • Patent number: 5669404
    Abstract: The invention herein disclosed is directed to a series of tools for repairing and replacing diverter valves. The tools are capable of functioning in many phases of diverter valve repair and replacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Inventor: Pedro M. Guillermo
  • Patent number: 5647253
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for fastening two members together with a theft resistant screw having a head with a top surface which is free of any engageable indentations or protrusions, with an independent means to drive the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Inventor: Juraj Pozek
  • Patent number: 5618143
    Abstract: A spindle nut and a locking device for securing the nut in a rotative position on a spindle. An anti-rotation spring and a back up plate are mounted on the spindle in a non-rotative manner with the back up plate in abutment with the bearings that rotatively mount the hub to the spindle. The back up plate has multiple grooves aligned with and arranged to receive multiple resilient tabs on the periphery of the anti-rotation spring. The tabs of the anti-rotation spring are formed to project axially from the spring. A flange of the nut has multiple slots around its periphery that are sized to receive a tab of the anti-rotation spring. A tool having extending ears that fit in the slots of the nut is utilized to install the nut on the spindle. The extending ears prevent the tabs of the spring from entering a slot of the nut until the tool is removed. As the nut is rotated by the tool, the nut abuts the anti-rotation spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1997
    Assignee: Warn Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip J. Cronin, II, Lonnie G. Williams, Jr., Thomas F. Dunlap, David C. Wood
  • Patent number: 5575602
    Abstract: A nut device and corresponding tool of such shape to aid in the ease of removal from a threaded bolt, stud, or the like. The principal intended use of this invention is for fastening the wheels of a vehicle to the vehicle's axle, but could easily be applied to any threaded fastening system. The nut and subsequent tool fit together in such a manner that prevents slippage or dislodging of the tool from the nut while in operation. This problem is common for conventional hexagonal-type threaded fastener and tool systems that are typically used on wheels of vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1996
    Inventors: Kevin J. Savage, Janet M. Savage
  • Patent number: 5553521
    Abstract: A device for adjusting the spring tension in a door closer in situ comprises body having a front side and back side surface. Mounting screw openings are disposed within the body and are positioned at locations corresponding to locations of selected locking screws in the closer used to secure a spring cover. Mounting screws are disposed within respective mounting screw openings. A centrally positioned cavity is disposed within the body and accommodates rotatable placement of an adjustment shaft therein. The adjustment shaft comprises a hexagonal head extending outwardly from the front side surface, and is attached to an adjustment assembly comprising a drive disk extending outwardly from the back side surface of the device. Adjustment pins extend outwardly from the drive disk and are numbered and configured to correspond to adjustment holes in the spring cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 10, 1996
    Inventor: David S. Dunn
  • Patent number: 5509785
    Abstract: A motorboat impeller comprises an axial portion having a through axial hole and having a plurality of blades mounted around the periphery thereof and further having a plurality of retaining slots in the inner wall of the through axial hole. The retaining slots have a predetermined depth and a predetermined length extending from the front end of the axial portion toward the inside of the axial portion along the direction of the axis of the axial portion. A mounting and dismounting element can be disposed in the retaining slots and is provided with a body of a polygonal construction and having a plurality of retaining blocks extending outwards. The retaining blocks are dimensioned to fit into the retaining slots. The body of the mounting and dismounting element can be held firmly with a hand tool to facilitate the turning of the axial portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Inventor: Solas Y. J. Lin
  • Patent number: 5497523
    Abstract: An automatic golf spike replacement tool having a non circular drive shaft, a sharply pointed tip on the drive end of the shaft and a golf spike driver on the other end of the shaft. The pointed tip is used for cleaning debris from the tool holes of used golf shoe spikes prior to removal. The automatic golf spike replacer is then used in conjunction with a power driver for removal and replacement of the golf shoe spikes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1996
    Assignee: The Golf Zone, Inc.
    Inventor: David Tarnoff
  • Patent number: 5458026
    Abstract: Disclosed is a new lamp base removing tool for extracting mogul-type and medium-type lamp bases from a socket when the lamp is broken. The lamp base removing tool comprises an elongated generally cylindrical body formed of rigid dielectric material. The body also has an axial concavity formed in a distal end thereof for receiving residual shards which may protrude inside the lamp base. A plurality of equally spaced apart rigid sharpened pins projects equidistantly from the distal end of the body for piercing engagement with an interior end portion of the lamp base. The pins are aligned with each other in a circular pattern and are concentrically positioned on the distal end of the body whereby torque applied to the body causes the lamp base engaged with the pins to rotate out of the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Inventors: Dale R. Southard, Fonza R. Brooks
  • Patent number: 5450776
    Abstract: In order to remove a one-way fastener of the type having a generally circular head with a flat upper surface portion and a convex upper surface portion, a security fastener removal tool is disclosed. The tool includes a shank having an end to be placed in engagement with the head of the one-way fastener. The end of the shank has a pair of fastener-engaging tips extending therefrom for mating engagement with a corresponding pair of tip-receiving recesses in the head of the one-way fastener. The tool also includes a generally cylindrical collar which is disposed so as to fully surround the pair of fastener-engaging tips. With this arrangement, the collar has an inner surface diameter substantially the same as the fastener head outer diameter, and the inner surface of the collar is adapted to grip the head of the one-way fastener.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1995
    Inventor: Burton Kozak
  • Patent number: 5448018
    Abstract: A wireholder includes a main body portion, an attaching portion, and a tool receiving portion. The main body portion is arranged to receive a wire to be secured to a structure. The attaching portion is affixed to the main body portion and has a configuration to facilitate the attachment of the main body portion to the structure. The tool receiving portion is arranged to receive an installing tool. The main body portion has a strength so that torque can be transferred from a power tool to the attaching portion through the installing tool and the main body portion. The installing tool is arranged to break if excessive torque is applied to the wireholder by the installing tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Joslyn Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Frederick W. Burtelson
  • Patent number: 5425289
    Abstract: A bung tool has a cylindrical body with a four-armed drive portion projecting from one end thereof and a six-armed drive portion projecting from the opposite end thereof, respectively for engagement with different types of bungs. A drive member reciprocates in a square cross-section axial bore through the body, being manually moveable by a handle which projects radially through a slot in the body. The drive lug of an associated drive lever is receivable in the opposite ends of the bore for respectively driving the two drive portions. The drive member reciprocates among two recessed positions respectively spaced from the opposite ends of the bore to allow insertion of the drive lug therein and a drive position projecting from one of the drive portions for driving engagement with a bung cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventor: Dean J. Iwinski
  • Patent number: 5425695
    Abstract: The stuffing tool transports and packs stuffing material into cavities of fabric dolls, animals, pillows, or other creations. The three sections of the stuffing tool are: the handle (20), the shaft (30), and the tip section (40).The handle (20) is made of a rigid material and is attached to the shaft (30) in the normal position of handles.The shaft (30) is made from a rigid material and is long enough to reach into the normal cavities of fabric dolls, animals, pillows, or other creations.The tip section (40) is made from a rigid material. The tip section (40) has a series of fluted ridges (40A) which extend outward from the shaft (30), grooves (40B), and a counter-sunk hole (40C) to allow it to grab the stuffing material and transport it to the interior of the cavity.The stuffing tool is made in several sizes and finishes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1995
    Inventor: Delbert R. Ridgley
  • Patent number: 5400680
    Abstract: A golf shoe spike wrench for removing spike bodies encapsulated with thermoplastic resin from the sole of golf shoes having a wrench head containing two spaced screws adapted to engage two apertures in the thermoplastic encapsulated spike body. The screws are rotated with a screwdriver to securely fix the spike wrench to the spike body, and the wrench is then rotated to remove the spike body from the shoe sole. Other spike bodies which are of all steel construction are removed in exactly the same manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Inventor: William G. Spangler
  • Patent number: 5353667
    Abstract: A combination tool and fastener in which the fastener has a head portion and a threaded screw portion. An aperture is formed in the head portion. The aperture has a first portion of constant dimension recessed inwardly from the head portion A second portion of the aperture is recessed an additional distance beyond the end of the first portion and is increased in dimension The tool is provided with an engaging portion which is insertable through the first aperture portion and lockingly engageable within the second aperture portion so as to enable the tool to rotate the fastener in either direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Inventor: David W. Wilner
  • Patent number: 5275086
    Abstract: A fluid actuator of the type for producing reciprocal movement is provided having a cylindrical housing adapted to be secured to a relatively stationary object. The cylindrical housing includes first and second end portions and respective first and second fluid ports positioned therein. A piston is disposed for relative movement within the cylindrical housing and defines first and second fluid chambers within the housing. The first fluid chamber is in communication with the first fluid port and the second fluid chamber is in communication with the second fluid port. A piston rod connects to the piston and extends outwardly from the first end portion of the housing. The piston rod is adapted to be connected to an object to be moved. A conduit communicates with the first fluid chamber through the first fluid port in the first end portion of the housing and extends longitudinally from the first fluid port alongside the housing to the second end portion of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 4, 1994
    Assignee: Unlimited Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Craig Stallings, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5272943
    Abstract: An apparatus for removing and replacing spikes, or calks, in golf shoes. This apparatus may be fitted into a driver for powered operation or may have a handle for manual operation. The pins of the apparatus which engage the spike wrench receptacles in the collar of a spike are "mobile" with respect to the spike holder, so that the spike wrench receptacles in the collar of a spike can be more readily engaged, facilitating removal and replacement of spikes on golf shoes. The apparatus comprises a spike holder, a pair of pins, a hex bit, and a collar nut. Preferably, each of these elements is of unitary construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Inventor: Robert R. V. Edwards
  • Patent number: 5269208
    Abstract: A tamper-proof fastener provided with a threaded shank and a low-profile drive head integral therewith. The drive head has a generally frusto-conical shape defining a circular flat top and a circular base of larger diameter, three short noses separated 120 degrees apart projecting from the sloped side of the drive head. The fastener is installed in a substrate or withdrawn therefrom by means of a tool having a driver head provided with a complementary frusto-conical socket to accommodate the drive head of the fastener, the wall of the socket having recesses therein to receive the noses of the head whereby a torque may be applied thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: James D. Sperling
    Inventors: Albert Kolvites, Robert J. Cohn
  • Patent number: 5265503
    Abstract: A lug nut and socket wherein the socket and nut engage only selected point surfaces. In one aspect of the invention the socket has a decreased number of point surfaces. In another aspect of the invention, the lug nut has a decreased number of point surfaces. In another aspect of the present invention the socket points surfaces include point pins which are positioned to engage a pair of diametrically opposed point surfaces on the lug nut. The point pins are removably inserted into point pin wells extending into the lug nut socket. In another aspect of the present invention a retainer ring is provided to prevent the removable point pins from falling out during operation or handling, or otherwise being unintentionally removed. In another aspect of the present invention, the socket bore which engages a lug nut during operation is deliberately oversized to allow for considerable play between the lug nut and the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Inventor: Lee A. Dolin
  • Patent number: 5216941
    Abstract: A tool is provided for securing a fastening device in the shape of an outer clamping sleeve member with an internal thread, and an inner clamping sleeve member with an external thread, said clamping sleeve members being mutually rotatable. Wrench mounts are provided on the device, such as teeth and slots, and the securing tool, which is complementary, is inserted to engage the teeth and slots for mutual turning of the clamping sleeve members. A lock pin is also disclosed, which is received in adjacent slots of the sleeve members to prevent movement of one relative to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Inventor: Harald Kolvereid