Having Storage Compartment Patents (Class 81/490)
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Publication number: 20100288087Abstract: A tool handle includes a handle and a tool bit receiving assembly. The handle has a driving end disposed in one end thereof for adapting to connect to a tool bit. The handle has a receiving space defined in one end thereof and opposite to the driving end. The tool bit receiving assembly is rotatably received in the receiving space. The tool bit receiving assembly includes a cover and a base detachably connected to the cover. The base has multiple plug recesses defined therein for receiving multiple tool bits.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2009Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventor: Jin-Tsai Lai
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Publication number: 20100229699Abstract: The invention provides a fully-opened-storable driver handle assembly having the following main structure. A handle is formed with a chamber dug inwardly from a lateral side thereof, and is connected to a storage seat at its rear end through a shaft rod, wherein the storage seat may be rotated into and out of the chamber with the shaft rod serving as a fulcrum. An elastic sheet disposed at a front end of the storage seat engages with a notch formed at a front end of the chamber so that the combination state between the storage seat and the handle may be fixed. Thus, the storage seat may be opened laterally so that the user can rapidly take and replace the tool head mounted on the storage seat, the working efficiency can be enhanced, and the convenience of replacing the tool can-be enhanced.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventor: Yung-Hsu Huang
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Patent number: 7788996Abstract: A generally cylindrical shaped tool handle holds multiple sizes of tools. The handle includes one or more holding slots each positioned on one of multiple outer surface faces into which tools are inserted and held. Each holding slot includes one or more contoured compartments in which tools rest when engaged with the handle. Each contoured compartment is of a size and dimension which corresponds to one or more tool sizes. In the preferred embodiment of the tool handle, three of its outer surface faces have a continuous holding slot with multiple receiving holes for inserting therein hexagonal wrenches of multiple sizes. The continuous holding slots of the preferred embodiment of the handle include multiple contoured compartments for holding an inserted hexagonal wrench. Each contoured compartment is formed about a corresponding receiving hole. A lock is positioned over the contoured compartment to irremovably confine the short leg of the hexagonal wrench within the contoured compartment.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Allen-Pal LLCInventors: Kenneth R. Johnson, Robert L. Johnson, Ronald L. Johnson
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Patent number: 7779732Abstract: Screwdriver handle has a storage chamber for screwdriver bits, the storage chamber being displaceable from a closed position into an open position by axial displacement of two parts of the handle with respect to one another. One handle part has a core, which is disposed in a cavity in the other handle part. The two handle parts are held in the closed position of the storage chamber by latching means movable out of a latching position by pressure on an actuating zone (8) associated with an end side of the handle.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2004Date of Patent: August 24, 2010Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Michael Abel, Ralf-Richard Richter, Werner Tretbar, Carsten Wulf
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Patent number: 7757589Abstract: A dual-mode screwdriver has a manual and powered actuation mode achieved by inverting the screwdriver body. The screwdriver has a driveshaft having two ends each adapted for receiving the shank of a screwdriver bit. The body contains a plurality of slots for storing a plurality of screwdriver bits. Magnets are contained in each of the slots for retaining the bits within their respective slots. The outside surface of the body is contoured for hand gripping and torquing. The driveshaft is adapted for coupling to a powered drill.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2006Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Inventor: Peter Kielland
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Publication number: 20100154598Abstract: A hammer device is provided for facilitating the driving, countersinking, and removal of relatively small fasteners, such as penny nails. A hammer includes a handle that can define an on-board tool storage area. A nail start accessory can include a tool portion and a nail holder portion. The tool portion can have a first end and a second end, with the nail holder portion being arranged at one of the first end and the second end. The on-board tool storage area of the hammer can be configured to removably store the nail start accessory substantially within the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Oleksiy P. SERGYEYENKO, David Keith WHEELER
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Patent number: 7723953Abstract: A battery-operated screwdriver has a housing with a handle, a rechargeable battery, charge contacts for charging the battery on a charger shell having at least one detachably mounted bit holder for storing tool inserts of the battery-operated screwdriver in captive fashion, so that the battery-operated screwdriver is placeable on the charger shell and a charging mode is produced automatically, and a charger shell for a battery-operated screwdriver has at least one detachable mountable bit holder configured to receive a plurality of bits which in operation are insertable in communication with the battery-operated screwdriver.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heiko Roehm, Julian Bergmann, Jean-Paul Meeuwissen
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Publication number: 20100116104Abstract: A screw driver with a variable handle has a body. One end of the body has a mounting part, and the other end is pivotally installed with an auxiliary handle. The body has an accommodating room for accommodating an accommodating box. The auxiliary handle covers the accommodating room when storing the screw driver. It is flipped open for holding when the screw driver is in use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Inventor: Kun-Chih Hung
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Publication number: 20090255380Abstract: The present invention discloses a handle of a hand tool, which comprises a handle body and grinding members. The grinding member is mounted on the handle body, and the grinding member contains abrasive particles and has at least a grinding face, so that the user can grind the sharp edge of articles straightly by grinding member possessed by the handle. Also the user can easily replace a new grinding member when the old one is out of use. Furthermore, the abrasive particles of grinding members have average diameter being different from each other so as to grind the article to have different fine degrees.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventor: Chiung-Chang Tsai
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Publication number: 20090229428Abstract: A combination of an implement-storing tool-handle and a sliding cover for the tool handle where the implement-storing tool-handle heel comprises one or more first apertures in the cover allows extension of a telescopic implement such as a pick-up magnetic wand stored in the handle heel when the cover is in any of one or more first pre-determined positions. The sliding cover for the implement-storing tool-handle heel may further comprise one or more second apertures in the cover conformed to allow retrieval of a bit stored in the handle only when the cover is in any of one or more second pre-determined positions, where the second predetermined positions coincide with one or more of the first predetermined positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2007Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: COMBINED PRODUCTS CO #1, INC.Inventor: Burton Kozak
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Patent number: 7565852Abstract: A screwdriver with rotary cartridge including replaceable bits therein comprises a body including a cavity portion formed at one end thereof for receiving a rotary cartridge having grooves therein, the cavity portion including a mounting tube provided at front end thereof and communicating therewith, the grooves rotatably corresponding to the mounting tube, the cavity portion also including a slide seat secured at the rear end thereof and communicating therewith, the slide seat including a grip disposed thereon and having a push shank fixed at the front end thereof, wherein a slidable piece is attached in the cavity portion for being pushed by the push shank and includes a guide slot formed thereon, at one end of the rotary cartridge are extendedly defined with locking protrusions, on a rotating shaft of the rotary cartridge is pivotally secured an actuation member for rotatably retaining the corresponding locking protrusions, the actuation member includes a guiding tab disposed thereon for being fitted in thType: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignees: Kae Mae Enterprise Co., Ltd.Inventor: Hong-Chow Yu
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Patent number: 7562606Abstract: A multi-bit driver comprises a housing and a plurality of bit assemblies operatively retained within the housing. At least one of the bit assemblies has a base portion and a tool bit member removably and replaceably mountable on the base portion. A bit chuck in the housing is for receiving each tool bit member singularly in torque transmitting relation, and includes a bit-receiving opening for permitting each tool bit member singularly to extend therethrough. The housing includes a substantially transparent forward portion that permits viewing of the tool bit members. An actuator extends from each bit assembly exteriorly to the housing for operative engagement by a user, for co-operative movement of the actuator means and the bit assembly between a retracted configuration, a forwardly extended in-use configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2006Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Dragonfire Group Holdings LimitedInventors: Gerard Grand, Yiu Cheuk Guang, Christopher Wu
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Patent number: 7546785Abstract: A battery-operated screwdriver, having a housing (12, 18) with a handle (14), in particular bent at an angle like a pistol grip, with a preferably fixedly installed rechargeable battery (40), and with charge contact tongues (37) for charging the battery (40) on a charger shell (22), is always ready for use and available by quick, simple access to the tool insert and screwdriver bit, because its battery (40) is designed as a lithium ion cell (Li ion cell) and can be placed in a chronologically undefined way, particularly in intervals between uses, on a charger shell (22), and the charging mode can be produced automatically, and the charger shell (22) has a detachably securable, magazinelike bit holder (99), with a plurality of compartments into which screwdriver bits (20) can be inserted.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2005Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Heiko Roehm, Julian Bergmann, Jean-Paul Meeuwissen
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Publication number: 20090139381Abstract: A screwdriver handle includes a body having an angled hollow grip at the rear end and a chuck at the front end for the mounting of an adapter shaft to hold a screwdriver tip in axial alignment with the body, a rack insertable into the inside of the hollow grip and having two rows of vertically spaced C-shaped clamping plates for accommodating screwdriver tips and an extension rod holder groove for accommodating an extension rod, and a cap capped on the bottom end of the grip to close the grip and to hold down the rack firmly inside the gripType: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventor: Hui-Ni Lin
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Patent number: 7530130Abstract: A multi-tool attachment having a configuration that is well-suited for incising material and performing various operations where two incising members are positioned on a main portion of the tool and the cutting-edge surfaces are in close engagement with one another at an interface point where the two blades meet in forceful engagement with one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2006Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: SOG Specialty Knives, Inc.Inventor: Spencer Frazer
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Publication number: 20080295657Abstract: A storage rack pivots outwardly from a corresponding longitudinal recess in the handle of the tool. The storage rack accommodates tool accessories or the like, such as sockets where the tool is a ratchet. The storage rack has an outer surface which defines part of the handle when the storage rack is closed. Alternatively, there could be several storage racks each with different pivot points, or two racks pivoting in opposite directions and sharing a common pivot point. Preferably, the handle is of plastic, and in the case of a ratchet, is overmolded onto a metal ratchet mechanism. The ratchet mechanism has an irregular external shape, or splines or the like, to accept torque without slipping or separating from the plastic handle portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2007Publication date: December 4, 2008Applicant: DURON PLASTICS LIMITEDInventor: Gary Paul CLUTHE
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Publication number: 20080276765Abstract: A hand tool and bit storage device configured to allow easy storage and access to a wide variety of bits. The hand tool comprises a body portion, a stem portion and a bit interface. The hand tool couples with the storage device. The storage device holds one or more tool frames or bit inserts each comprising a plurality of bits. The bit inserts are deformable to allow easy access to the bits contained therein. In some embodiments, the bit inserts may be locked in the storage device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2007Publication date: November 13, 2008Inventors: Ronald L. Johnson, Robert J. Gallegos, Steven Simas Escobar, Anders Scot Hudson, Idriss Mansouri-Chafik Ruiz, Yugen Patrick Lockhart, Howard Allen Wilson, Eric M. Colton
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Patent number: 7444905Abstract: A wrench includes a head portion, a handle portion, and a neck portion between the head portion and the handle portion. The handle portion is hollow and includes a front portion contiguous to the neck portion and a rear portion to be gripped by a user. The front portion has a wall thickness greater than that of the rear portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2007Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Inventor: Bobby Hu
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Publication number: 20080245198Abstract: A power tool having a housing and a blade storage container. The blade storage container is pivotally mounted on the housing and is disposed between the housing and a handle associated with the housing. The housing has a recess for receiving the container and an elastic member is arranged between the housing and the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2008Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: CHERVON LIMITEDInventor: Yasheng Chen
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Patent number: 7424837Abstract: A quick switch hand tool includes a base board, a plate, a shell, and a cover connected together. A driving shaft is rotatably disposed in the base board, the plate, the shell and the cover. A switch means is mounted on the base board and is provided for switching the direction of the driving shaft. A quick actuating member is disposed on the driving shaft and provides the effect of quick actuating.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2007Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Inventor: Zu-Shung Shu
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Patent number: 7421931Abstract: A combination includes a socket wrench and an adaptor. The socket wrench includes a handle having a head portion. The head portion includes a drive column for driving a socket. The handle includes an open end in which a coupling member is securely mounted. The adaptor is removably engaged with one of the drive column of the head portion and the coupling member. The adaptor includes a coupling portion for releasable engagement with the drive column of the head portion. The adaptor further includes a drive portion having a specification different from that of the drive column. The drive portion can be used to engage with another socket having a size different from that of the socket driven by the drive column.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2007Date of Patent: September 9, 2008Inventor: Bobby Hu
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Publication number: 20080196559Abstract: There is provided multi-purpose driving tool comprising a first end having a fastener driving housing apparatus for receiving a fastener driving apparatus; a second end having a tool housing apparatus for receiving a functioning driving apparatus or functioning accessory; and a pivot point, located between the first and second ends; wherein the first end and the second end can be pivoted with respect to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2008Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: TEAM FAIR HOLDINGS LIMITEDInventor: Scott W. ALLAN
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Publication number: 20080190249Abstract: A screwdriver with rotary cartridge including replaceable bits therein comprises a body including a cavity portion formed at one end thereof for receiving a rotary cartridge having grooves therein, the cavity portion including a mounting tube provided at front end thereof and communicating therewith, the grooves rotatably corresponding to the mounting tube, the cavity portion also including a slide seat secured at the rear end thereof and communicating therewith, the slide seat including a grip disposed thereon and having a push shank fixed at the front end thereof, wherein a slidable piece is attached in the cavity portion for being pushed by the push shank and includes a guide slot formed thereon, at one end of the rotary cartridge are extendedly defined with locking protrusions, on a rotating shaft of the rotary cartridge is pivotally secured an actuation member for rotatably retaining the corresponding locking protrusions, the actuation member includes a guiding tab disposed thereon for being fitted in thType: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2008Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventor: Hong-Chow Yu
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Publication number: 20080178716Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hand-held tool that may be held in the palm of a hand, the hand-held tool being of adequate length and size to allow users to comfortably transfer the tool from a palm grip to a pen grip to maintain the use of the fingers and the thumb when the hand tool is stored in the palm. One or several storage housings are attached offset from a drive shaft housing for improved torque transfer from a hand to the tool head, integral storage of work pieces, optimized use of palm torque during use, and better overall grasping. The hand tool is also equipped with a retractable or nonretractable torque drive shaft designed to allow the fingers and thumb of a user to be rotated freely when the tool is in palm grip and capable of transmitting torque through the housing when an axial pressure force is placed along the drive shaft to engage the tool head with the housing. The drive shaft can also be reversed to create a prolongation shaft or placed in another opening of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2007Publication date: July 31, 2008Applicant: LOGGERHEAD TOOLS LLCInventor: Daniel P. Brown
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Publication number: 20080178717Abstract: A quick switch hand tool includes a base board, a plate, a shell, and a cover connected together. A driving shaft is rotatably disposed in the base board, the plate, the shell and the cover. A switch means is mounted on the base board and is provided for switching the direction of the driving shaft. A quick actuating member is disposed on the driving shaft and provides the effect of quick actuating.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2007Publication date: July 31, 2008Inventor: Zu-Shung Shu
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Patent number: 7395739Abstract: A portable screwdriver has a tip cartridge movably mounted inside the portable screwdriver. The tip cartridge can protrude from and be stored in the portable screwdriver and has multiple clamps formed, which hold the tips that can be individually detached from the tip cartridge and mounted on the portable screwdriver. Thus, the portable screwdriver is compact and facilitates carrying. Moreover, the portable screwdriver stores the associated tips inside and effectively prevents the tips from being lost.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2007Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Inventor: Jui-Tung Chen
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Patent number: 7380660Abstract: A tool handle type tool box, which includes a first cover shell, which has a connector at one end and hexagonal coupling holes formed in the connector for the mounting of a tool bit adapter to hold a tool bit for working, a second cover shell, which forms with the first cover shell a grip and has a tool bit tray detachably set therein for holding tool bits and two C-shaped coupling rings disposed at one end and pivotally coupled to the connector of the first cover shell.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Witman CorporationInventor: Hung-Lin Lin
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Publication number: 20080060489Abstract: A tool handle device includes a hand grip member having a bore formed through the hand grip member for receiving a shaft, the shaft has an orifice formed in one end for detachably engaging with a tool member and for rotating or driving the tool member, the shaft further includes an engaging hole formed in the other end portion for engaging with a driving tool and for allowing the shaft of the hand grip member to be selectively rotated and driven by the driving tool, the shaft may include a noncircular segment extended out of the hand grip member for being driven by the driving device. The shaft has a noncircular cavity for engaging with a noncircular connector of the tool member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2007Publication date: March 13, 2008Inventor: Hsiu Nien Lin
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Patent number: 7334508Abstract: A tool for loosening or tightening screws. The tool has a number of shafts with screwdriver bits on their ends that are stored in elongated grooves that are parallel to the longitudial axis and circumferentally spaced around the handle. Each stored blade can be rotated separately out of the storage handle 180 degrees on a pivoting hinge into a housing head which locks the extended shafts in place for operation. The housing head can be rotated 360 degrees perpendicular to the elongated axis of the handle in order to accomadate each blade separately.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2006Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Inventor: Jonathan Mark Heaven
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Patent number: 7305908Abstract: An easy storage precision screwdriver comprises a handle, a cover disposed on one end of the handle, a post disposed on the cover and located in the handle, a pressing ring threaded on the other end of the handle, and a working post inserted into the handle and fixed by the pressing of the pressing ring. Since the handle and the post are defined with a containing hole and a through hole respectively, when the user releases the pressing ring, the length of the working post with respect to the handle can be adjusted, and one end of the working post can be inserted into the containing hole and the through hole of the handle and the post. Thereby the precision screwdriver of the present invention is miniaturized, and is easy to store.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2006Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Inventor: Li-Lien Chi
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Patent number: 7293484Abstract: An opener head retainer comprises a handle held by users; a front end of the handle having a receiving groove; an operation portion capable of being inserted into the receiving groove; a receiving portion formed by a casing, an inserting disk, an elastomer, and a cover. An inner side of the casing has a receiving space for receiving the inserting disk and the elastomer. A periphery of the through hole has two lower inclined resisting sheets. A lower side of the inserting disk is enclosed by two upper inclined resisting sheets capable of resisting against the two lower inclined resisting sheets so to control the vertical orientation of the inserting disk in the casing. Each of the opener heads is placed between a corresponding one of the clamping groove and a corresponding one of the receiving openings.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2005Date of Patent: November 13, 2007Inventor: Kuo-Chen Liu
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Publication number: 20070251355Abstract: A tool includes a tool bit and a tool handle. The tool handle is coupled detachably to the tool bit, and includes a handle member, a lid unit, and a tool holder unit. The handle member defines an accommodating space, and an opening that is in spatial communication with the accommodating space. The lid unit serves to cover the opening in the handle member. The tool holder unit is mounted on the lid unit for holding the tool bit, and is mounted on the lid unit such that the tool holder unit is received in the accommodating space when the lid unit covers the opening in the handle member and such that the tool holder unit is disposed externally of the handle member when the lid unit uncovers the opening in the handle member.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2006Publication date: November 1, 2007Inventor: Simon KAO
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Patent number: 7287451Abstract: A screwdriver is provided having a handle having a first end and a second end; a front element having a bit holder, said front element aligned with said handle along an axis; a cylinder positioned between said handle and said front element, said cylinder having a plurality of chambers, each of said chambers shaped to store a bit; said cylinder rotatable around said axis; and a push rod having a first end and a second end, said push rod slidable along said handle from a first end of said handle to a second end of said handle, said push rod having a magnet at said first end.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2005Date of Patent: October 30, 2007Assignee: Kinpack Polyethylene Ltd.Inventor: Aubrey J. Rodgers
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Patent number: 7284466Abstract: A hand tool includes a handle body, a cover having two exposing slots and a stop plate formed with a passage, and two rotation wheels each rotatably mounted in the handle body and each having an inside formed with receiving holes to receive tips and a peripheral wall formed with an opening that is movable to align with the respective exposing slot and the passage of the cover. Thus, the user only needs to rotate the rotation wheels to select and take out the desired tip, thereby facilitating the user operating the hand tool. In addition, the tips are directly stored in the handle body so that the user needs not to additionally prepare a storage box to store the tips, thereby facilitating the user carrying the hand tool.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2007Date of Patent: October 23, 2007Assignee: Yeh Shing Enterprise Co., LtdInventor: Shin-Chi Ho
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Patent number: 7281455Abstract: A tool handle includes a body, a bit carrier, and an actuating member. An end of the body includes a compartment. One of two lateral sides of the body has an opening in communication with the compartment. The bit carrier is mounted in the compartment of the body and movable relative to the body in a longitudinal direction. The bit carrier includes a bit-holding section for holding at least one bit. A retaining member is mounted to the bit carrier for retaining the bit carrier to the body. The actuating member is mounted in the opening of the body. The actuating member is operable to move the bit carrier from a storage position to an ejected position without falling out of the body and to impart a frictional force between the retaining member and the body to prevent the bit carrier from falling out of the body.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Inventor: Bobby Hu
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Patent number: 7281454Abstract: A generally cylindrical shaped tool handle holds multiple sizes of tools. The handle includes one or more holding slots each positioned on one of multiple outer surface faces into which tools are inserted and held. Each holding slot includes one or more contoured compartments in which tools rest when engaged with the handle. Each contoured compartment is of a size and dimension which corresponds to one or more tool sizes. In the preferred embodiment of the tool handle, three of its outer surface faces have a continuous holding slot with multiple receiving holes for inserting therein hexagonal wrenches of multiple sizes. The continuous holding slots of the preferred embodiment of the handle include multiple contoured compartments for holding an inserted hexagonal wrench. Each contoured compartment is formed about a corresponding receiving hole. A lock is positioned over the contoured compartment to irremovably confine the short leg of the hexagonal wrench within the contoured compartment.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Allen-Pal LLCInventors: Kenneth R. Johnson, Robert L. Johnson, Ronald L. Johnson
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Patent number: 7272995Abstract: A carpenter's hammer wherein the handle portion is telescopic using two slidably mating tubes. Two optimal preset positions are made possible by means of a dual spring-nipple. At the 14.5? stop, the jig hammer can be used to jig the position between studs for 16? on center. At the 16? stop, the jig hammer can be used to mark stud locations on wall plates prior to nailing, as well as to locate studs once panel board covers these studs. A built-in safety bar serves as a positional stop, and also to prevent separation of the two telescopic handle portions. A pencil holder at the extremity of the handle portion positions a pencil through the handle in such a manner as to allow marking at the very end of said hammer.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2006Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Inventor: W. H. Douglas Mavin
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Patent number: 7237458Abstract: A ratchet screwdriver includes a screwdriver body, a magazine body journalled and disposed removably within the screwdriver body for receiving a plurality of bits, and a ratchet unit disposed on a front end of the screwdriver body. A driving rod is movable in the screwdriver body between a front limit position, where a selected one of the bits projects from the ratchet unit for performing a screw driving operation, and a rear limit position, where the magazine body can be removed from the screwdriver body.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2005Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Inventor: Hsuan-Sen Shiao
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Patent number: 7210879Abstract: A universal holding frame provides convenience and safety for certain drill accessories which all have an elongate drivable shaft and a mounted storage barrel. The universal holding frame maintains the mounted storage barrel against rotation with the shaft of the drill accessory. It can contract and extend and be able to fit almost all drills.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2006Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Inventors: Li Kun Bai, Li Lin Bai
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Patent number: 7207246Abstract: A screwdriver with screwdriver head storage structure includes a handle, a receiving unit, a clamping device and a sliding cover. The handle comprises a compartment therein. The compartment is provided with a pair of connecting blocks at respective ends. The connecting blocks comprise troughs to connect with the receiving unit. The receiving unit comprises a plurality of recesses to accommodate screwdriver heads therein. The handle and the sliding cover comprises a pair of sliding sections, respectively, to engage with each other, so that the sliding cover is able to slide in relation to the handle so as to hide screwdriver heads within the handle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2007Inventor: Hung-Ming Hu
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Patent number: 7188555Abstract: A multi-bit driver comprises a longitudinally oriented housing including a bit chuck at one end; a plurality of tool bits nested within said housing in a retracted position; and bit assemblies including tool bits and being operable to extend said tool bit from said refracted position to said extended position by a single longitudinal motion for selectively extending tool bits to an extended position and retracting said tool bits to said retracted position, such that in the extended position, said tool bits project from said bit chuck and are substantially longitudinally aligned with said housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2001Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Invent Smart Inc.Inventor: Fern Beauchamp
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Patent number: 7182002Abstract: A screwdriver handle structure includes a handle having a storage compartment. The compartment comprises a number recesses to store screw heads therein. The handle is provided with a locator having a trough to receive an engaging device therein. The handle further comprises sliding sections to secure a sliding cover thereon in order to store screw heads.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2005Date of Patent: February 27, 2007Inventor: Hung-ming Hu
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Patent number: 7174814Abstract: A tool handle includes a handle member having a number of compartments formed in an outer peripheral portion, a number of holders rotatably received in the compartments of the handle member and each having an engaging hole for receiving a tool member, and a rotary member rotatably attached to the handle member. The holders each includes an extension. The rotary member includes an actuator or a peripheral groove for selectively engaging with the extensions of the holders, and for selectively rotating the holders relative to the handle member to an outwardly opening and working position, by rotating the rotary member relative to the handle member.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Inventor: Youn Chyuan Liao
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Patent number: 7156005Abstract: The hand tool has a chuck with a central axial opening through which bits or other tool elements are selectively moved from a retracted position to an extended operative position. A mechanical element automatically engages the tool element, such that as the tool element reaches its operative position, it is automatically locked in place, such that it cannot be retracted without user intervention to retract the mechanical element and thereby permit retraction of the tool element. In a specific preferred embodiment the mechanical element is at least one pivotally mounted cam, biased to engage the tool element once the tool element is extended to its operative position. A user-operable mechanism such as a collar for example, spring-biased against retraction, is arranged to contact the cam when retracted against the force of the spring, to rotate the cam so that it no longer engages the tool element, thus allowing the tool element to be retracted to its storage position.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Duron Plastics LimitedInventor: Gary Paul Cluthe
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Patent number: 7156002Abstract: A tool shaft and tool bit arrangement is disclosed to include a hollow shaft, which has a hexagonal through hole through the two ends to accommodate a number of tool bits in a line, a locating block held down by a clamp in a radial through hole near the front end of the shaft to hold down the first tool bit, a steel ball held down by a clamp in a radial through hole near the rear end of the shaft to hold down the last tool bit, and a grip fixedly fastened to the periphery of the rear end of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2005Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Inventor: Fu-Yi Chan
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Patent number: 7152511Abstract: A polychrome transparent tool handle comprises a base, an identifying member, a plug, an ear member, a plurality of arcuate members and a cladding layer. The colors of the identifying member, the arcuate members and the cladding layer are different, the handle is made of light-transmitting plastic and interiorly received the identifying member, so that the identifying member is visible from the outside of the base of the identifying member. The ear member and the plug are disposed at an end of the base, while at another end of the base is fixed a tool head. The arcuate members are positioned on the peripheral surface of the base and are laminated with a cladding layer, and the arcuate members partially projects out of the cladding layer.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2005Date of Patent: December 26, 2006Inventor: Shy Fen Fen
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Patent number: 7134368Abstract: A screw driver for housing and supplying bits has a housing with a elongate tube extending through the housing along the axis to a forward presentation end of the tube at which the bits are presented for use. The housing has a rotatable storage holder mounted in the housing for holding and storing a plurality of tool bits and arranged by manual engagement with an exposed side portion to rotate about a second axis parallel to the tube. A plunger carried on an end cap with a hexagonal sleeve has a flat magnetic bit carrying face at the forward end and receives a cooperating portion of the housing as a sliding fit. The holder is removable by pressing an ejection button on an opposite face of the housing and has a magnet which holds the bits in place. The plunger is restricted against free sliding movement by a friction head which presses against the side of the plunger.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2004Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: The Innovak Group Inc.Inventor: Gyula Kalder Nagy
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Patent number: 7121173Abstract: A tool handle self-contained a set of head tips comprises a handle main body, a set of head tips, a fixing seat and a stop member. The handle main body has on its bottom a fixing hole, and has a receiving groove on a lateral side thereof. The head-tip set includes a base, a protruding column raised from the base and some holding areas on the base; the protruding column has on its upper end a stepped portion; the holding areas each holds and fixes a head tip; when the head-tip set assembled with the receiving groove, the bottom of the base is flush with a lateral side of the handle main body, and the top surface of the protruding column forms at a hole of the receiving groove a pressing area for pressing to push out the head-tip set. A head tip can be fixed on the bottom of handle main body for use as a screwdriver.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2005Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Nieh Chuang Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chun Yong Chen
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Patent number: 7111533Abstract: A multiple bit screwdriver comprising a plurality of tool bits, an elongate member defining an axial passage adapted to receive said bits therein positioned tip to end so that the foremost bit operably extends from the passage and is rotatable with the elongate member, first and second retainers connected to the elongate member near each end of the passage and extending radially inward into the passage to engage frictionally the foremost and last bits to prevent said bits from falling out of either end, and a motion restricting member within the passage having an expandable engagement portion that cooperates with at least one tool bit to permit the movement of bits within the passage in one direction only. The engagement portion is expandable in response a tool bit being pushed therethrough in one direction, but resists expanding when a tool bit is being pushed in the opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2005Date of Patent: September 26, 2006Inventor: Yaar Ran
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Patent number: 7107885Abstract: A tool handle self-contained a set of screwdriver bits includes a handle and a set of screwdriver bits in the handle. There is a fixed hole provided on the bottom of the handle and a receiving groove provided on the side of the handle. The set of screwdriver bits includes a base, a pillar installed on the base and a plurality of holding parts installed on the base. On the upper end of the pillar, a step portion is provided and each holding part holds a screwdriver bit. After the set of screwdriver bits and the receiving groove are assembled, the bottom of the base and the handle become a smooth surface and the top face of the pillar in the hole of the receiving groove forms a pressing face. If the pressing face is pressed, the set of screwdriver bits will move out from the handle. After the screwdriver bit is locked at the bottom of the handle, it can act as screwdriver. A tool handle self-contained a set of screwdriver bits can suit for various hand tools.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2004Date of Patent: September 19, 2006Assignee: Nieh Chuang Industrial Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chun Yong Chen