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US 4,232,419 AGranted
Articulated plumbers snake
OwnerWinston D. Sangerinventor
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Abstract
A sectional plumbers snake with a power driven end section having one end provided with a shank received in the tool holding chuck of a power drill, the other sections of the snake having complementary detachable connections permitting the addition of sections immediately in front of the power driven section.
Claims2
A powered plumbers snake comprising:
- an elongated flexible water pipe cleaning element having a driven end section,
- a power hand tool having a rotary chuck and having a given direction of work rotation,
- the driven end section of said flexible water pipe cleaning element having an end portion comprising a shank removably clamped in said chuck,
- said flexible element, excepting said driven end section, comprising a plurality of additional sections having complementary detachable connections,
- said additional sections each having at one end, a closed loop,
- the other end of each such section having split spring ring means within which said closed loop is removably received,
- and said driven end section having its end opposite from the shank end, means for detachable connection selectively with one of said detachable connections.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.