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US 2008/0289455 A1Published application
Drive socket design for hold and drive fastener
AssigneeAcument Intellectual Properties, LLC
InventorDAVID GOSS
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Abstract
A drive tool that includes a drive socket. The drive socket includes alternating flutes and lobes and has a conical portion. The lobes, rather than being tapered in the conical portion of the socket, are each uniform in width as they progress to an end of the socket. The fact that the lobes are uniform in width in the conical portion of the drive socket provides for better engagement with the flutes of a conical section of a fastener.
Claims16
A socket of a drive tool member which is configured to engage a fastener, said socket comprising:
- a conical section which is configured to engage the fastener;
- alternating flutes and lobes in the conical section of the socket, said lobes having a uniform width as the lobes progress in the conical section of the socket to an end of the socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.