Through-hole socket

Details Through-hole socket Through-hole socket

1993-06-24

1994-11-22

Smith, James G.

Tools

Wrench, screwdriver, or driver therefor

Handle clutched to head

811243, 8117785, 403329, 403108, B25B 1346

Patent

active

053658078

ABSTRACT:
A socket tool for releasable securement to a wrench having a drive wheel provided with a drive opening. The tool includes a fastener-receiving part defining therein a fastener-receiving opening for nonrotatable driving engagement with a conventional fastener such as a nut or bolt head. A drive part is fixed to and projects axially from the other end of the fastener-receiving part, and is defined by an annular wall having an interior peripheral wall which defines an interior opening which projects axially through the drive part and coaxially communicates with the fastener-receiving opening. The drive part has an exterior peripheral wall of polygonal shape for nonrotatable driving engagement within the drive opening of the wrench. A ball detent arrangement is mounted on the drive part, and includes a bore formed radially through the annular wall and a ball movably disposed therein. The bore, where it communicates with the exterior peripheral wall, defines a mouth of smaller diameter than the ball to radially confine the ball within the bore while permitting the ball to project radially outwardly through the mouth. A spring is mounted on the annular wall and extends across the inner end of the bore and urges the ball radially outwardly.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1658886 (1928-02-01), Dickey
patent: 3715168 (1973-02-01), Kuhn
patent: 4711595 (1987-12-01), Magio et al.
patent: 4722252 (1988-02-01), Fulcher et al.
Scot Tools brochure re Super Socket Systems, Scot Tools, Inc. of Mebane, N.C. (4 pages).

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