Socket bit holder
AssigneeAllen Manufacturing Company
InventorPaul J. Molinari
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Abstract
A socket bit holder formed with a circumferential groove in a bit holder opening of the socket, the holder arranged to receive a tool bit having peripheral notch means, and a split ring in the circumferential groove arranged to engage the notch means of the tool bit whereby the bit will be maintained in the holder.
Claims3
A socket bit holder comprising a socket member having a circumferential groove near one end of a tool bit opening formed in the socket member, said groove having a 45.degree. surface tapering toward the end of the socket member, a tool bit adapted for insertion in the tool bit opening, a plurality of notches formed on the tool bit which notches are arranged to be adjacent the circumferential groove when the tool bit is in the socket member, and a resilient ring means positioned in the circumferential groove which ring is arranged to engage the tool bit notches.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.