Tools – Wrench – screwdriver – or driver therefor – Handle clutched to head
Patent
1998-04-23
2000-05-02
Scherbel, David A.
Tools
Wrench, screwdriver, or driver therefor
Handle clutched to head
81 631, 81 5939, B25B 1300
Patent
active
060558881
ABSTRACT:
A wrench device with a bearing-type clutch for selectively and reversibly providing a unidirectional rotational force and an opposite unidirectional independent rotation. The wrench device includes one or more bearings disposed in an irregular space between a primary wall of a primary body and a secondary wall of a secondary body. The space has tapering or narrowing sections in which the bearings bind to fixedly engage the primary and secondary bodies as the primary body rotates in a first rotational direction. A pin or toggle dislodges a bearing so that the primary body may rotate freely in a second, opposing rotational direction while another bearing binds the secondary body to the primary body when said primary body is rotated in the first rotational direction. Alternatively, a bearing is selectively positioned in the space to cause the primary and secondary to rotate together or independently depending on the positioning of the bearing and the rotational direction of the primary body.
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Mitchell M. Todd
Scherbel David A.
Wilson Lee
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