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US 12,275,121 B2Granted
Lineman's flip socket
AssigneeMadi, LLC
InventorAaron Shropshire
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Abstract
A flip socket is disclosed. The flip socket including a socket body having a central section extending between a first socket positioned on a first end of the central section and a second socket positioned on a second end of the central section, wherein a centerline extends through a longitudinal axis of the socket body; and a coupler adapted to engage one of the first and second sockets, the coupler connecting the flip socket to a driving device to drive a fastener or device.
Claims18
A flip socket, comprising:
- a socket body having a central section extending between a first socket positioned on a first end of the central section and a second socket positioned on a second end of the central section, the first socket including a peripheral wall that terminates at an end face oriented normal to a centerline extending through a longitudinal axis of the socket body, wherein an interior of the first socket includes driving elements adapted to drive fasteners or devices, the driving elements including an inner drive recess defined by four walls which extend axially inward, and wherein the driving elements include a pair of cross slots extending axially inward from the end face and pass through the peripheral wall, bisecting the peripheral wall into two sections, each of the cross slots is bounded by opposed, parallel side faces which blend into a concave, arcuate bottom face, the bottom face is oriented at an acute angle to the centerline, such that an outboard edge of each cross slot is closer to the end face than the inboard edge of the cross slot;
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- a coupler adapted to engage one of the first and second sockets, the coupler connecting the flip socket to a driving device to drive a fastener or device.
A flip socket, comprising
- a socket body having a central section extending between a first socket positioned on a first end of the central section and a second socket positioned on a second end of the central section, the second socket being bound by a peripheral wall that terminates at an end face oriented normal to a centerline that extends through a longitudinal axis of the socket body, wherein an interior of the second socket includes driving elements adapted to drive fasteners or devices, the drive elements including a pair of cross slots extending axially inward from the end face and pass through the peripheral wall, bisecting the peripheral wall into two sections, wherein each of the cross slots is bounded by opposed, parallel side faces which blend into a concave, arcuate bottom face, the bottom face is oriented at an acute angle to the centerline, such that an outboard edge of each cross slot is closer to the end face than the inboard edge of the cross slot;
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- a coupler adapted to engage one of the first and second sockets, the coupler connecting the flip socket to a driving device to drive a fastener or device.
A flip socket, comprising:
- a socket body having a central section extending between a first socket positioned on a first end of the central section and a second socket positioned on a second end of the central section, the first socket including a peripheral wall that terminates at an end face oriented normal to a centerline extending through a longitudinal axis of the socket body, wherein an interior of the first socket includes driving elements adapted to drive fasteners or devices, the driving elements including an inner drive recess defined by four walls which extend axially inward, and wherein the driving elements include a pair of cross slots extending axially inward from the end face and pass through the peripheral wall, bisecting the peripheral wall into two sections, each of the cross slots is bounded by opposed, parallel side faces which blend into a concave, arcuate bottom face, the bottom face is oriented at an acute angle to the centerline, such that an outboard edge of each cross slot is closer to the end face than the inboard edge of the cross slot;
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- a coupler adapted to engage one of the first and second sockets, the coupler connecting the flip socket to a driving device to drive a fastener or device, the coupler including:
- a first end having a cylindrical nose and a square drive section, the square drive section adapted to engage a drive recess of one of the first and second sockets;
- a second end forming a drive shank, the drive shank having a circumferential locking groove near a distal end of thereof.
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