US 2007/0163400 A1 · Percussion instrument adjustment and tuning tool

Abstract

The present invention is an combination drum/percussion hardware wig nut tightening/loosening tool and tuning key. It is comprised of a cylinder body, with two sets of open slots at one end for wing nut adjustments. One end of the cylindrical body comprises protruding socket slots designed to engage wing nuts of various sizes for rapid but sensitive adjustments. The other end of the cylinder tapers down in diameter to a socket style wrench. The socket style wrench end can be used for tuning heads on standard percussion instruments such as congas, bongos, timbales, etc, and for tightening and loosening various nuts and bolts through out the musical industry world. A slidable coupled cross center rod, can be round, oval, hexagon, octagon and others forms, is guided thru the cylinder body midsection, at an angle adjustable for maximum leverage in confined spaces. The cross center rod also has a counter sunk square hole at one end that can be fitted on any standard musical drum lug nut so one can tune drum heads, as well as, tighten and loosen any and all same size, square headed nuts and bolts through out the drum and percussion world.

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Dependent claims

An combination wing nut and tuning key tool comprising:

a cylindrical body having two diameter ends coupled with a tapered section;
a bolt socket end on the smaller diameter and a wing nut socket on the larger diameter cylinder body end;
a first and second opposed wing nut slot pairs extending out from the large cylinder diameter end forming a wing nut socket housing;
a bore extending through the wing nut socket housing and presenting an aperture at the housing end for engaging wing nuts of various sizes;
a counter sunk axially aligned bore socket at the smaller diameter end of the cylinder body, socket for receiving a bolt or key;
a cross center rod element slidably coupled through the cylinder body at a cross angle in the plane defined by rod element and cylinder body axis and;
the cross center rod element having two ends, both ends having a stop limiter means to constrain rod sliding to remain coupled to cylinder body,
whereby the sliding center rod provides hand purchase variably adjustable leverage to adjust wing nuts of various sizes or adjust bolt tightness in constrained spaces.

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Percussion instrument adjustment and tuning tool

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