Tool driving or impacting – Passage in manipulating handle for drive motor motive fluid
Reexamination Certificate
2000-12-15
2001-10-30
Smith, Scott A. (Department: 3721)
Tool driving or impacting
Passage in manipulating handle for drive motor motive fluid
C173S169000, C173S170000, C173S029000, C173S216000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06308786
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to winch tightening tools and more particularly pertains to a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device for tightening a winch using a pneumatic tool.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of winch tightening tools is known in the prior art. More specifically, winch tightening tools 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. Nos. 4,747,433; 5,095,780; 5,357,828; 4,524,651; 5,377,565; 5,240,236; 2,293,786; and U.S. Des. Pat. No. 329,794.
While these devices fullfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device. The inventive device includes an air wrench. The air wrench is couplable to an air supply hose. A shaft is rotatably coupled to the air wrench. The shaft has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is positioned adjacent to the air wrench, and the second portion has a threaded peripheral wall such that threads extend outwardly from the shaft. The air wrench selectively rotates the shaft in a first direction. A winch engaging- member includes a casing securely attached to the air wrench such that the shaft extends into the casing. A coupling member has a well extending therein and has a size adapted for releasably receiving and coupling to a cylinder. The cylinder is securely attached to a winch. A rod is integrally coupled to and extends away from the coupling member. The rod extends through the casing such that the rod is rotatably coupled to the casing. The rod extends through and is integrally coupled to a gear. The gear is positioned in the casing. The gear is located such that the threaded portion of the shaft may engage the gear. The hose is fluidly coupled to the air wrench, wherein the air wrench may rotate the gear such that the coupling member rotates the winch.
In these respects, the pneumatic powered winch actuating device 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 tightening a winch using a pneumatic tool.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of winch tightening tools now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device construction wherein the same can be utilized for tightening a winch using a pneumatic tool.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the winch tightening tools mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art winch tightening tools, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises an air wrench. The air wrench is couplable to an air supply hose. A shaft is rotatably coupled to the air wrench. The shaft has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is positioned adjacent to the air wrench, and the second portion has a threaded peripheral wall such that threads extend outwardly from the shaft. The air wrench selectively rotates the shaft in a first direction. A winch engaging member includes a casing securely attached to the air wrench such that the shaft extends into the casing. A coupling member has a well extending therein and has a size adapted for releasably receiving and coupling to a cylinder. The cylinder is securely attached to a winch. A rod is integrally coupled to and extends away from the coupling member. The rod extends through the casing such that the rod is rotatably coupled to the casing. The rod extends through and is integrally coupled to a gear. The gear is positioned in the casing. The gear is located such that the threaded portion of the shaft may engage the gear. The hose is fluidly coupled to the air wrench, wherein the air wrench may rotate the gear such that the coupling member rotates the winch.
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 pneumatic powered winch actuating device apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the winch tightening tools mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art winch tightening tools, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device 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 pneumatic powered winch actuating device economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new pneumatic powered winch actuating device 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 pneumatic powered winch actuating dev
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