Pocket field tool
AssigneeThe Patent Store LLC
InventorsL. Herbert King, JR., James Keeven, Steven Rhea
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Abstract
A foldable pocket field tool having a foldable pliers and a set of specialty field tool bits to enable the foldable pocket tool to be carried on a person and used on-the-go with the field tool having a set of tool bits tool bits extendable or retractable into a handle and with each of the tool bits operable for efficiently performing a unique service tasks that may occur when installing or servicing a field system such as an irrigation system. The tool bits may be arranged to provide a two-part handle for use in manipulating an adjacent tool bit about a central axis as the tool bit is supported by the foldable pocket tool.
Claims20
A foldable pocket field tool having:
- a first handle having a first pivot pin on one end and a second pivot pin on the opposite end with a tool bit channel extending therebetween;
- a second handle having a first pivot pin on one end and a second pivot pin on the opposite end with a tool bit channel extending therebetween;
- a two step manual tool bit having a base end pivotally mounted on one of said pivot pins, said tool bit having a conical tip thereon for sizing and shape forming an opening of a first shape and a stepped member for forming an opening of a second shape through expansion of material proximate the tool bit through controlling axial penetration of the tool bit therein, said tool bit rotateable in situ to form the opening of the second shape into a third opening of the same shape as the first opening with the third opening having a larger diameter than a diameter of the first opening, said manual tool bit foldable between an operative position and a closed condition within one of said handles when the two step tool bit is not in use;
- a tool bit having a hexagonal cross section with a mounting base rotatably supported by one of said pivot pins with said elongated shaft foldable into a concealed condition within one of said handles when not in use;
- a tool bit comprising a rigid cylindrical push rod having a mounting base pivotally mounted on one of said pivot pins with said cylindrical push rod rotateable into a concealed condition within one of said handles;
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- a driver bit having an elongated shaft with a driver head with a first rigid rectangular ear extending from one side of the head and a second rigid rectangular ear extending from an opposite side of the head.
A foldable irrigation pocket field tool having:
- a first handle having a first pivot pin on one end and a second pivot pin on the opposite end with a tool bit channel extending therebetween;
- a second handle having a first pivot pin on one end and a second pivot pin on the opposite end with a tool bit channel extending therebetween;
- a set of pliers jaws supported by said first handle and said second handle;
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- a set of tool bits wherein each of the tool bits are pivotally mounted to either the first handle or the second handle and at least one of the tool bits is a two step tool bit having a conical tip thereon for sizing and shape forming an opening by radially expanding material as the two step tool bit axially penetrates an object.
A method of forming an opening in an article with a pocket tool comprising the steps of:
- penetrating an object with a first portion of a pointed tool bit having a cylindrical shaft having a first diameter D1 to form a cylindrical opening of a first size;
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- continuing to penetrate the object with a second portion of the tool bit having a non-circular shaft having at least a portion having a greater cross sectional dimension than the diameter D1 of first portion of the tool bit to form an enlarged opening having an elongated non-circular shape therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.