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US 5,845,354 AGranted
Multipurpose house and shop tool
OwnerJoseph F. Long, Thomas A. Harlaninventors
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Abstract
A multipurpose tool useable to open container caps, to hammer nails, to pull nails, to act as a screw driver, to loosen and tighten a nut, to open bottle caps, to pry off lids, to act as s vice grip tool and to act as a C clamp.
Claims3
A multipurpose tool comprising
- A) a hollow shaft;
- B) corrugations on one side of said shaft;
- C) an upper head means rigidly fastened to a first end of said shaft;
- D) a lower head means slidable on said shaft;
- E) a manually operable locking and tightening means in said lower head means;
- said locking and tightening means operating to move said lower head means upward to exert an upward force and lock in place when said lower head means is manually held against a rigid material held between said lower head means and said upper head means and a threaded pin in said lower head means is manually tightened;
- F) very fine teeth, teeth a minimum of one eigth inch in height and a wire cutting segment, located in a first end of a lower mating face of said upper head means;
- said very fine teeth being adjacent to said teeth a minimum of one eigth inch in height which are adjacent to an upper side of said wire-cutting segment;
- said fine teeth, said teeth a minimum of one eigth inch in height, and said wire cutting segment, all having equal height upper surfaces;
- G) a smooth second end of said lower mating face located across said shaft from said wire cutting segment and of equal height to said wire cutting segment,
- H) a second set of very fine teeth, teeth a minimum of one eigth inch in height and a lower wire cutting segment, and a smooth surface forming a mating surface means on said lower head means to match and oppose said very fine teeth, said teeth a minimum of one eigth inch in height, said wire cutter means and said flat surface on said upper head means;
- I) a tool holding means removably held in a second end of said shaft;
- J) a hammer face a minimum of about one square inch in area formed on a first end of said upper head means;
- and
- K) a vee shaped claw means on a second end of said upper head means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.