Compound tools – Cutter combined with other tool or tools
Patent
1998-01-13
1999-08-10
Scherbel, David A.
Compound tools
Cutter combined with other tool or tools
7118, 30123, 30159, 30160, B26B 1100, B26B 306
Patent
active
059338938
ABSTRACT:
A multi-purpose tool housing is provided having an implement that is rotatably stowable in an individual housing opening. The opening includes a separate lock plate that engages the end surfaces of a pivot plate that extends from an inner end portion of the implement. The end surfaces are angularly oriented to permit the lock plate to not only secure the implement in a storage mode, but also secure the implement in predetermined angular orientations for convenience of use. A spring biased plunger, flexible bands and spring members operate between the housing and implement to automatically move a portion of the implement out of the housing opening to a predetermined access orientation. Thereafter, a user may readily grasp the implement and rotate it to the desired use position. When scissors are being used with a flex strip between the scissors handles, a bumper part coacts with the lock plate to hold the handles together for storage against the flexural bias of the flex strip. Upon release, the flex strip will automatically push at least one of the scissors handles out of the opening to the aforementioned access orientation.
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Hoffmann Philip J.
Hovet Kenneth J.
Scherbel David A.
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