Clamping tool
OwnerCharles Zayatinventor
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Abstract
A tool for form engaging and turning components such as nuts, bolts, and screws. In its basic form, it includes a chamber which in turn supports a bundle of pins each of which is adapted to slide further upwardly into the chamber when the lower pin end contacts the component at the lower end of the housing.
Claims18
A tool for turning components of varying sizes and shapes comprising a housing forming a chamber open at the lower end thereof, a bundle of a plurality of individual pins each having upper and lower ends longitudinally oriented in said chamber in a first normal position with their lower end surfaces adapted to contact the varying size and shape components, said housing having suspension means at the upper end thereof engaging the pin upper ends for suspending said pins in individual slidable relationship to each other where contact of the pin lower end surfaces with the component will force the contacted pins further upwardly into said chamber to a second position and means for returning said pins to their first normal position once contact with the component is removed, said means at the upper end of said housing for suspending said pins being a set of laterally oriented side by side rails positioned across the upper chamber end, said pin upper ends each having a closed end elongated slot through which said rails extend thereby both suspending said pins from said rails and permitting individual longitudinal pin travel as determined by the length of said slots.
A tool for turning components of varying sizes and shapes comprising a housing forming a chamber open at the lower end thereof, a bundle of a plurality of individual pins each having upper and lower ends longitudinally oriented in said chamber in a first normal position with their lower end surfaces adapted to contact the varying size and shape components, said housing having suspension means at the upper end thereof engaging the pin upper ends for suspending said pins in individual slidable relationship to each other where contact of the pin lower end surfaces with the component will force the contacted pins further upwardly into said chamber to a second position and means for returning said pins to their first normal position once contact with the component is removed, said means at the upper end of said housing for suspending said pins being a set of laterally oriented side by side rails positioned across the upper chamber end, said pin upper ends each having a closed end elongated slot through which said rails extend thereby both suspending said pins from said rails and permitting individual longitudinal pin travel as determined by the length of said slots and wherein said pin lower ends extend outwardly beyond the lower open end of said chamber.
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