A fully-rotating reversible open-end ratcheting wrench comprising:
- a. a peripherally notched gear that has a cutout sized to receive a standard size nut or bolt head and,
- b. both sides of said gear will have round projections that share the same center axis as the gear's notched circumference and,
- c. said round projections will ride in similarly sized cutouts in the top and bottom halves of the wrench and the gear will be sandwiched between the two halves of the wrench whether the top and bottom halves are stamped steel, forged steel, machined, die-cast or molded and,
- d. two ratchets placed a distance apart to straddle the opening of the gear as the gear rotates about its center axis and,
- e. said ratchets are free to pivot on their respective pins and,
- f. said ratchets are synchronized in their rotation about their respective pivotal pins by their connection to a linkage or tie-bar that constrains them to move in unison,
- g. said ratchets have two tips each with all four tips with the same shape as the notches on the periphery of the gear and,
- h. said ratchets are urged to pivot about their respective pivotal pins in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction depending upon the urging of the tie-bar and,
- i. when the ratchets are urged in a clockwise direction, their tips will ride on the notched periphery of the gear while allowing clockwise rotation of the gear but the ratchets will lock the gear from moving in a counterclockwise direction and,
- j. conversely, when the ratchets are urged in a counterclockwise direction, their tips will ride on the notched periphery of the gear while allowing counterclockwise rotation of the gear but the ratchets will lock the gear from moving in a clockwise direction and,
- k. said tie-bar or linkage has a v-shaped center protrusion that is urged to either side by riding against the v-shaped nose on a spring-loaded plunger and,
- l. pressure can be applied to the edge of the tie-bar that protrudes beyond the body of the wrench to force the v-shaped protrusion on the tie-bar to overcome the pressure exerted by the v-shaped nose of the spring loaded plunger thus causing the linked ratchets to reverse their direction of rotation and,
- m. the plunger is slidably sandwiched halfway between the top and bottom halves of the wrench and linearly aligned with a spring and retaining set-screw and,
- n. all moving parts, the gear, two ratchets, tie-bar, plunger, spring and set screw, are equally sandwiched between the top an bottom halves of the wrench.