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US 2017/0291287 A1Published application
Wrench and Ratchet Adapter
OwnerDaniel M. Bendixinventor
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Abstract
A customized tool adapter that allows for a typical wrench to be connected temporarily, but with great stability to a typical ratchet. Such an application is capable of being used with several types wrenches and ratchets, including various sizes, units of measurement and other applications and is generally hexagonal in nature having swaged gripping lips.
Claims16
A combination ratchet, wrench, and adapter comprising:
- a ratchet, the ratchet comprising a handle and a ratcheting end, the ratcheting end comprising a male socket interface;
- a wrench, the wrench being a combination wrench having one open end and one closed end;
- and
- an adapter, the adapter comprising a nut having at least a top face, a bottom face, and at least four outer sides being perpendicular to and spanning the top face and bottom face, a centrally located female socket interface spanning the top face and the bottom face, the female socket interface matable with the male socket interface of the ratchet, the walls of the central cut being parallel to the at least four outer sides, the at least four outer sides forming parallel edges therebetween, and at least four lips located at the intersection of the top face and the parallel edges, the outer sides and parallel edges being matable with at least the closed end or the open end of the wrench;
- the lips protruding outwards from the edges such that the cross sectional diameter of the outermost portion of the edges is greater for the top face than the bottom face;
- wherein the female socket interface of the adapter is mated with the male socket interface of the ratchet and the outer sides of the adapter are mated with one of:
- the open end of the wrench, or the closed end of the wrench.
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A tool adapter comprising:
- a nut having at least a top face, a bottom face, and at least four outer sides being perpendicular to and spanning the top face and bottom face;
- a central rounded rectangular cut from the nut spanning the top face and the bottom face, the walls of the central cut being parallel to the at least four outer sides;
- at least one hole spanning at least one of the at least four outer sides to the wall of the central cut;
- the at least four outer sides forming parallel edges therebetween;
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- at least four lips located at the intersection of the top face and the parallel edges, the lips protruding outwards from the edges such that the cross sectional diameter of the outermost portion of the edges is greater for the top face than the bottom face.
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A method for manufacturing a tool adapter comprising:
- providing a six sided die cast nut having a top face and a bottom face and a female connection fitting at a centrally located location spanning between the top face and bottom face;
- providing an instrument having six interior surfaces matable to the exterior sides of the six sided die cast nut;
- orienting the instrument such that the interior sides of the instrument are offset from the sides of the die cast nut by approximately thirty degrees, thereby orienting the interior sides of the instrument with the edges of the six sided die cast nut;
- pressing the instrument onto the top face of the die cast nut thereby swaging the six edges of the nut into lips;
- thereby manufacturing the tool adapter.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.