360 Degree rotatable ratchet socket drive body tapered for various axially driven external driving components

Abstract

A handleless ratchet socket wrench capable of a fully rotational 360 degree swing arc with full ansi torque specifications designed and required in the various sizes of ratcheting gears and output drives, is hereby disclosed. The ratchet socket wrench assembly can be either a forged or a machined finished product of numerous types of steel and steel finishes and can be fabricated in a solid one-piece entity or a detachable body-to-ratchet head entity, in all of the common and various sizes of ratchet drives. The uniqueness of the ratchet socket wrench besides the lack of a cumbersome handle is the fact that it loosens and tightens bolt head type fasteners axially, whereas the tool torque being applied, if even from a tangential remote handle at the axial termination point of the ratchet wrench body, transforms that tangential torque force into axial torque force which therein transmutes that axial torque force through the ratchet head axially to the fastener head in one constant axial method, thereby resulting in constant and equally applied torquing force transfluent to all surface points of the bolt head fastener. This will eliminate ‘torque or torsion twist’ common to handled ratchet socket wrenches and will greatly reduce the damaged fastener syndrome of the prior art handled version also. The fact that the present ratchet socket wrench neither contains nor requires a handle makes it very suitable for a limited space mechanical operation and even more so in extreme limitation cases whereas the socket, ratchet head, and then ratchet structure drive body can be applied in a piecemeal operation, that is, the total tool being attached to its respective part, in the confined space itself or just to pass a restriction in the mechanical passageway itself. The preferred embodiments should have a tapered drive body for ease of handling and less space taken by the total tool embodiment itself, once in place on the fastener head. As long as the socket has the area space to fit on the fastener head and thereon the ratchet head, even with an extension bar between them, the total embodiment is capable of 360 degree rotation driven in a constant and axial manner, because of all the variations possible with its external tool configurements and therefore its driving methods.

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