Battery operated hand held vacuum handling device
OwnerHarold D. Palmer, Daren D. Palmer +1inventors
InventorsHarold D. Palmer, Daren D. Palmer, Thomas P. Mealey
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Abstract
A hand held tool for grasping and moving light weight objects includes a battery powered vacuum. Upon pressing an actuator, an electrical circuit is completed, activating the vacuum pump. The vacuum pump draws air from a valving system, causing air to be drawn through a nozzle. A variety of gripping devices may be attached to the nozzle, so that air is also drawn through the attached gripping device when the vacuum pump is activated. As a result, the gripping device may be placed in proximity to a light weight object, so that activation of the vacuum pump results in that object being held against the gripping device, for ease of movement, until the vacuum pump is deactivated.
Claims7
A hand held tool for picking up small objects comprising:
- (a.) an elongated rectangular hollow tube having a control side and three other sides, a distal end and a proximal end into which a proximal end cap is fitted, said proximal end cap comprising a top plate and a control plate arranged perpendicular to said top plate, said top plate covering said proximal end of said hollow tube and said control plate covering a hole formed in said control side, with each of said plates having at least one hole formed therein,
- (b.) a nozzle rotatably fitted into said hole formed in said top plate so that said nozzle extends from the exterior to the interior of said hollow tube,
- (c.) a suction creating means located inside said hollow tube, said suction creating means further comprising an electrically operated air pump,
- (d.) an actuator member extending from the exterior to the interior of said hollow tube through said hole formed in said control plate,
- (e.) an electrical battery located inside said hollow tube,
- (f.) an electric circuit and electronic valve located inside said hollow tube, which electronic valve is closed to complete said circuit by moving said actuator member into said interior of said hollow tube, which circuit activates said electrically operated air pump, and
- (g.) a valving system and pneumatic valve located inside of said hollow tube, which pneumatic valve is closed by moving said actuator into said interior of said hollow tube, which circuit draws air through said nozzle from the exterior of said hollow tube when said electrically operated air pump is activated.
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