Tools – Wrench – screwdriver – or driver therefor – Machine
Reexamination Certificate
2001-12-13
2004-09-07
Hail, III, Joseph J. (Department: 3723)
Tools
Wrench, screwdriver, or driver therefor
Machine
C081S057000, C081S058100, C081S490000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06786114
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to assemblage-of-a-gripwheel-handle-apparatus as attached upon a driver-device so-that, by utilization of the apparatus, the driver-device can be more continuously actuated and handled.
2. Description of Prior Art
Driver-devices, of a type as like that of hand operated ratchet drivers, are designed to eliminate both the need for disengaging from a fastener to return for another leg of spinning the driver's handle and to eliminate the need for reconfiguring the grip to begin application of another spin of the driver's handle, disengaging and grip reconfiguring being operations necessary for rotation of a fastener in absence of a ratcheting mechanism. By eliminating the aforementioned operations, the time saved can be applied to just rocking the driver's handle back an forth with the hand, thereby increasing the number of rotational cycles and speeding rotation of the fastener. However, due to the fact that many fasteners are not snug enough to generate the frictional resistance required to cause the ratchet mechanism to ratchet, the opposing hand must, at times, be used to supply the additional frictional resistance. When a means is not provided to keep the hand poised in readiness while waiting to apply the resistance, applied only during return strokes, the hand must continually reconfigure on each successive cycle to correct apply the added resistance, thus consuming much of the time saved by using the ratchet driver. If it becomes necessary for the fastner's spin to be reversed for any reason, the user must stop, reset the ratchet mechanism for reverse, spin the fastener, then stop, reset the ratchet mechanism for forward, and resume operation; the resetting of the mechanism wastes an additional period of time. Furthermore, since the hand which is already positioned on the side of the driver's shank to apply the additional resistance “could ”, but being it lacks an efficient means to engage the shank and therefore “cannot” effectively continue spinning the fastener, the return cycle is left unproductive ad its potential is not fully realized. In addition, when a-hand-grips-the-shank-from-a-location-on-side-the-shank-to-spin-the-shank, it is not quite in a spacial orientation such that it can rotate a distance equal to the distance rotated by a hand gripping-on-a-driver's-handle-at-rear-of-the-driver, a rotating ratio of two to three. Therefore a driver would benefit from a gripwheel-handle-apparatus-as-upon-a-driver-device-assemblage-method which does result in the formation of an apparatus that enables a user's hand utilizing-the-apparatus to act a role of clutch, like a second ratchet mechanism, which normally would be necessary inside the driver in order to have the driver's shank move easily within the hand to achieve an alternate two handed continuous spin of the shank. Having had assembled-a-grip-wheel-apparatus-upon-a-driver-device using such method would result in enabling a hand utilizing the apparatus to be correctly positioned to manipulate the shank as needed, thus freeing-space-inside-the-driver so permitting installation of, and enabling both the driver and the apparatus together to offer as platform to support a means for stepping up the movement of the shank relative the movement of a hand which, while positioned along side the shank, spins the shank. Finally, since rocking the driver's rear-handle back and forth makes it difficult to hold the driver steady upon a fastener, the driver would benefit from an efficient means to guide the fore-portion of the driver against the work while operating the driver.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the invention to equip a driver-device, a device having both a handle and shank extending perpendicularly from the handle, with an auxiliary handle apparatus, called herein a gripwheel, used as both a second-handle, for holding and spinning the driver's shank, and as a guide means, used to aid in guidance of both the driver and a second operating hand. The apparatus to be assembled is comprised of two separate positioned, shaped, utilized, and functioning halves, a hand utilized, discretely-independently-rotatable, slip-ring-type hand held guide half, and a rotatable, hand-operated, driver-shank's, drive-means half called a drive-wheel herein. And both halves are “assembled” upon a driver-device-of-the-type-as-described-which has -both-handle-and-shank-extending-perpendicularly-from-the-handle, but to describe further the-driver-device and the-assemblage, the driver device's handle is also turnable-the-shank and the assemblage of the halves, being as that are-the-apparatus, is accomplished through way of utilizing the method of assemblage, which is the invention, prescribed herein, to enable a one portion of a hand grasping upon the guide half of the apparatus to direct the driver's shank toward the work and also, through way of gripping upon the guide, secure the one hand portion both linearly fixed relative plus rotatable relative the shank as axis, thereby positioning an unencumbered second portion of the hand to simultaneously, at will, grasp for holding or grasp for spinning the hand-operated drive-wheel of the apparatus; and in addition, through the grasp of the drive-wheel also enable the drive-wheel to (1) be means for the hand's second portion to aid in guidance of the driver; (2) be means for the hand's second portion to supply additional frictional resistance for augmenting ratcheting of the driver when the driver is a ratchet type applied to loose-fitted-work; (3) be means for the hand's second portion to reverse the spin of the driver's shank without having to reset the ratcheting direction of the driver and; (4) be means for the hand's second portion to continue productive spinning of the shank during the opposing hand's unproductive driver-handle return strokes. To accomplish the aforementioned results the said guide and drive-wheel are structured as two separate shaped, positioned, utilized, and functioning halves, sized such that the distance from at lease one axially-parallel-outward-surface of the guide to-a-line-to-be true axis of the guide, the line being through-the-guide is essentially the same as the distance from the overall axially parallel outward surface of the drive-wheel to true axis of the drive-wheel, the driver-device's shank to be used in the position of and collinear with the true axis as running perpendicularly through both components, and both components are sized plus positioned relative each other so when placed in line about the driver's shank in the position of true axis, a hand is able to grasp both components simultaneously, and the hand-held-guide's shank-parallel outward-surface is shaped to enable holding in position on the guide any one portion of a hand grasping on the-shank-parallel-outward-surface of the said guide, while the drive-wheel's shank-parallel-outward-surface is shaped for enabling ease of simultaneously, along with the said holding-of-the-guide-by-a-one-portion-of-said-hand, having the wheel intermittently gripped, held, spun, and released by the grasp of any remaining-not-utilized-on-the-guide second portion of the same said hand; and additionally, the drive-wheel being separate as an independently enacted half of the apparatus, should be of a type shaped with bluntly curved surfaces substantially uniformly symmetrical about the axis of the wheel, so enabling the wheel to rotate within the grasp of such a releasing, not-utilize-on-the-guide, second portion of the said hand, so that the, not-utilized-on-the-guide, second portion of the said handle is able to remain in position for gripping the drive-wheel, and yet also is able to rotate about the drive-wheel near or lightly touching the drive-wheel's surface, due to anchoring through linkage with said hand's one portion which remains utilizing the guide, the guide in addition being discr
Hail III Joseph J.
Ojini Anthony
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