Construction tool
Assignee1406239 BC Ltd.
InventorKyle Carl Valentine Thiele
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Abstract
A construction tool and method of using the tool. The tool includes a handle connected with a claw by a pivot near the bottom of the handle. The claw engages with a workpiece by penetrating the workpiece with a tooth point that is angled back from the claw toward the pivot. An anchor on the handle may engage with the floor. Pulling the handle away from the workpiece pivots the handle away from the claw at the top of the handle and toward the claw at the bottom. With the claw engaged with the workpiece and the anchor engaged with the floor, pulling the handle pulls the claw toward the handle, pulling the workpiece toward the user. Where the workpiece is a wall frame, the tool may facilitate securing the wall frame with an exterior surface that is flush against a lower-level structure located below the wall frame.
Claims28
A construction tool comprising:
- a handle body extending between a first handle end and a second handle end;
- a claw body extending along a claw length of the claw body between a first claw end and a second claw end, the claw body connected with the handle body by a pivot proximate the second handle end and proximate the second claw end for pivoting the handle body with respect to the claw body;
- an anchor located on the handle body proximate the second handle end for securing the handle body with an underlying surface;
- a claw head located on the claw body proximate the first claw end for engaging with a workpiece;
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- a tooth point extending from the claw head at a tooth angle for piercing the workpiece;
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- wherein the tooth angle is offset from a tooth axis perpendicular to the claw length, and angled away from the first claw end and toward the second claw end for facilitating engagement between the tooth point and the workpiece along a tooth path within the workpiece, which tooth path is directed away from the first claw end and toward the second claw end.
A method of securing a workpiece comprising:
- providing a tool comprising a claw engaged with a handle by a pivot, the handle including an anchor below the pivot;
- engaging the claw with the workpiece;
- engaging the anchor with an underlying surface;
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- pivoting the handle with respect to the claw for urging the workpiece toward the pivot;
- wherein the claw comprises a tooth point extending from the claw at a tooth angle for piercing the workpiece;
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- the tooth angle is offset from a tooth axis perpendicular to a claw length extending along the claw between the tooth and the pivot, and the tooth angle is angled toward the pivot for facilitating engagement between the tooth point and the workpiece along a tooth path within the workpiece, which tooth path is directed toward the pivot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.