Extractor device
OwnerWalter C. Pottsinventor
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Abstract
An extractor device for the removal of an elongated element from a confined opening such as a broken pencil from a pencil well of a desk includes an extractor gripping element and a modified plier's member which detachably secures to the extractor gripping element. The extractor gripping element includes a cylindrically shaped member having a longitudinally placed bore extending therethrough. The cylindrically shaped element is inserted into the pencil well such that the pencil is engaged into the bore. The plier's member engages the cylindrically shaped member, wherein the user exerts an upwardly force to lift the pencil and cylindrically shaped element from the pencil well.
Claims9
An extractor device adapted to remove an elongated element from a confined opening, which comprises:
- a. an elongated housing having first and second ends, a wall, and a longitudinally placed bore therethrough, said wall of said housing having a pair of longitudinally aligned rows of apertures therein, said elongated element adapted to be received into said bore of said housing;
- b. a plier-like member including a pair of arms pivotally joined together at their centers, each said arm having a jaw and a handle end;
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- c. a pin member included on an inner face of each said jaw end, an aperture of one of said rows for receiving one of said pin members, a corresponding aligned aperture of the other of said rows for receiving the other of said pin members.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.