Multiple spring wire-form retention socket
AssigneeSnap-on Incorporated
InventorAnup A. Gupte
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Abstract
A socket having a working end with a socket receiving area that is adapted to receive a work piece, and an opposing drive end adapted to engage a lug of a torque application tool. The socket includes spring-wire forms disposed in the socket receiving area that are adapted to apply a biased force to the work piece when the work piece is received in the socket receiving area, wherein the spring-wire forms include a first and second end and arms formed proximal to the first and second ends, and the arms include a bent portion that is adapted to engage axial slots when a work piece is received in the socket receiving area.
Claims20
A socket having a working end with a socket receiving area having an inner surface and that is adapted to receive a work piece, and an opposing drive end adapted to engage a lug of a torque application tool, the socket comprising:
- first and second spring-wire forms adapted to apply a radially biased force to the work piece when the work piece is received in the socket receiving area, wherein each spring-wire form includes first and second ends and first and second arms respectively disposed proximal to the first and second ends, wherein the first arm of each of the first and second spring-wire forms includes a first bent portion defining an angle;
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- a first axial slot disposed in the inner surface of the socket receiving area and adapted to receive the first bent portions.
A socket having a working end with a socket receiving area having an inner surface and that is adapted to receive a work piece, and an opposing drive end adapted to engage a lug of a torque application tool, the socket comprising:
- first and a first and second pairs of spring-wire forms adapted to apply a biased force to the work piece when the work piece is received in the socket receiving area, wherein each spring-wire form of the first and the second pairs of spring-wire forms includes-opposing first and second ends and first and second arms proximal to the respective first and second ends, wherein the first arm of each of the first and second spring-wire forms includes a first bent portion;
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- a first axial slot disposed in the inner surface of the socket receiving area adapted to receive the first bent portions.
A socket having a working end with a socket receiving area having an inner surface and that is adapted to receive a work piece, and an opposing drive end adapted to engage a lug of a torque application tool, the socket comprising:
- first and second spring-wire forms adapted to apply a biased force to the work piece when the work piece is received in the socket receiving area, wherein each of the first and second spring-wire forms includes first and second ends and first and second arms respectively disposed proximal to the first and second ends, wherein the first arm of the first spring-wire form includes a first bent portion, and the second arm of the second spring-wire form includes a second bent portion;
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- first and second axial slots disposed in the inner surface of the socket receiving area;
- wherein the first axial slot is adapted to receive the first bent portion, and the second axial slot is adapted to receive the second bent portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.