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US 5,392,673 AGranted
Tool handle
OwnerRussell K. Scottinventor
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Abstract
A tool handle having a tool head mounted at a first end of the tool handle includes a handle shaft telescopingly mounted within the tool handle arranged for securement within the associated handle tube in a first position and projecting the handle tube in a second position to provide for increased application of leverage and torque in use of the tool head.
Claims4
A tool handle, comprising,
- an elongate handle tube, having a handle tube first end spaced from a handle tube second end, with the second end having an entrance opening directed into the handle tube, the handle tube first end having a tool head fixedly mounted thereon, and
- a handle shaft reciprocatingly received within the handle tube, the handle shaft having a shaft first end spaced from a shaft second end, and
- the shaft first end including a shaft threaded boss, the shaft second end including handle mounting boss, with the shaft threaded boss and the handle mounting boss coaxially aligned relative to one another, the handle tube having an internally threaded collar coaxially aligned relative to the handle tube and to the handle shaft, the internally threaded collar fixedly mounted within the handle tube in adjacency to the tool head to threadedly receive the shaft threaded boss, and
- the handle shaft having further lock means cooperative with the handle tube for fixedly securing the handle shaft relative to the handle tube upon release of the shaft threaded boss relative to the internally threaded collar.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.