Tools – Wrench – screwdriver – or driver therefor – Handle or shank
Patent
1998-08-21
2000-05-16
Scherbel, David A.
Tools
Wrench, screwdriver, or driver therefor
Handle or shank
81438, 811772, 81490, B25B 2316
Patent
active
060621117
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The field of this invention relates to a pocket tool that is easily portable but provides for the necessary tool bits for repairing portable sports equipment such as in-line skate wheels, bearings, and archery equipment.
BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE
Outdoor individual sports have enjoyed an increase in popularity. Many of these sports require portable equipment such as archery bows or in-line skates that may need maintenance or repair on the spot. A tool is often necessary for properly maintaining or repairing the equipment.
One such sport that has enjoyed a surge in popularity is in-line skating. Adults have joined youth in popularizing this sport. In-line skates include a plurality of wheels, such as four or five, that are attached under a shoe or boot along the center-line. The wheels have a rounded outer surface to provide a wide variation of camber with respect to the floor or skating surface. This wide camber variation provides the sharp turns and push off capability for quick accelerations of the skater. Each wheel has it own axis of rotation with a race of bearings about the inside and outside ends of a fixed axle hub section.
Due to the small diameter of the wheel, the wheel undergoes high revolutions per minute and a lot of wear and tear is encountered by the bearings. Furthermore, the skate encounters tremendous stresses such as pot holes, curbs, and harsh landings at the end of jumps. The wheels and bearing races periodically need to be repaired or otherwise adjusted.
What is needed is a convenient portable tool that can be used loosen and tighten the axle pins and to push the bearings and axle sheath out of the wheel in order repair or adjust the wheels and bearings. What is also needed is a tool that can be used as a lace puller. What is generally needed is a portable pocket tool that can have multiple uses for repairing and maintaining sports equipment.
SUMMARY OF THE DISCLOSURE
In accordance with the invention, a portable tool assembly includes a carrying and storage case and a plurality tool bits such as screw driver bits, hex keys commonly called allen wrenches or other elongated tool. The tool bits are stored in recesses in the storage case. The elongated tool such as an allen wrench is stored along an edge of casing and desirably within an appropriately sized groove in the respective edge such that a friction press fit or snap fit is formed with the tool element. For the snap fit, the groove may have a lip or protrusion to form the snap fit with the respective tool element. The press fit or snap fit is sufficiently strong to keep the tools in place against accidental jarring but allows a person to manually remove each tool element. Each edge has a semi circular or other shaped recess for allowing access to each tool element.
The case is made from a rigid plastic such as polycarbonate or metal or other structurally appropriate material. The case has a key ring loop at one end edge side thereof. The opposite edge side has a counter bore that is sized to snugly and partially receive tool bits in an operating position to allow the case to function as a screw drive handle or as a handle for the bearing pusher or other housed tool. The casing has two major sides that are substantially flat or planar in nature. However other contours of the major sides are possible such as to form with the internal contour of a gripping hand.
The casing also has apertures therethrough to receive the elongated tool such as a drive bit or allen wrench such that the casing can function as a handle for the respective tool wrench.
The allen wrench or other elongated tool is totally separable from the casing such that one bit when placed in an appropriate aperture functions as one tool while the elongated tool such as the allen wrench can function as a second tool simultaneously with use of one of the bit tools. This use of one of the bits simultaneously with the elongated tool is important for example when the axle of the wheel needs to be loosened or removed from the wheel.
It may be also de
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Danganan Joni B.
Scherbel David A.
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