Tools – Wrench – screwdriver – or driver therefor – Handle or shank
Reexamination Certificate
2000-05-12
2001-07-10
Smith, James G. (Department: 3723)
Tools
Wrench, screwdriver, or driver therefor
Handle or shank
C081S177100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06257102
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a wrench extension tool and more particularly pertains to a new extension attachment for wrenches for allowing the user to reach hard-to-reach areas of an object to either tighten or loosen screws or nuts therefrom.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a wrench extension tool is known in the prior art. More specifically, a wrench extension tool heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,570,617; U.S. Pat. No. 4,729,281; U.S. Pat. No. 5,168,782; U.S. Pat. No. 4,960,014; U.S. Pat. No. Des. 394,992; and U.S. Pat. No. 4,644,600.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new extension attachment for wrenches. The inventive device includes an elongate support member having a handle member and a wrench support member attached to the handle member and having a first end, a second end, a first planar side and a second planar side with the elongate support member also including flange members extending along either edge of the first planar side and being spaced apart to receive and retain a portion of a wrench therebetween; and also includes a fastening assembly for fastening a wrench to the wrench support member.
In these respects, the extension attachment for wrenches according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of allowing the user to reach hard-to-reach areas of an object to either tighten or loosen screws or nuts therefrom.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of wrench extension tool now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new extension attachment for wrenches construction wherein the same can be utilized for allowing the user to reach hard-to-reach areas of an object to either tighten or loosen screws or nuts therefrom.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches which has many of the advantages of the wrench extension tool mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new extension attachment for wrenches which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art wrench extension tool, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises an elongate support member having a handle member and a wrench support member attached to the handle member and having a first end, a second end, a first planar side and a second planar side with the elongate support member also including flange members extending along either edge of the first planar side and being spaced apart to receive and retain a portion of a wrench therebetween; and also includes a fastening assembly for fastening a wrench to the wrench support member.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches which has many of the advantages of the wrench extension tool mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new extension attachment for wrenches which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art wrench extension tool, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such extension attachment for wrenches economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches for allowing the user to reach hard-to-reach areas of an object to either tighten or loosen screws or nuts therefrom.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches which includes an elongate support member having a handle member and a wrench support member attached to the handle member and having a first end, a second end, a first planar side and a second planar side with the elongate support member also including flange members extending along either edge of the first planar side and being spaced apart to receive and retain a portion of a wrench therebetween; and also includes a fastening assembly for fastening a wrench to the wrench support member.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches that easily and conveniently allows a user to attach a wrench thereto.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new extension attachment for wrenches that is easy to use and access those hard-to-reach areas of objects.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosur
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