Tool with dual-material handle
AssigneeSnap-on Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJoseph R. Hoepfl, Christopher D. Thompson
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Abstract
A driving tool, such as a screwdriver, has a handle with an injection-molded, relatively hard and rigid inner body, molded around a tool shank, the inner body having an elongated central portion with two end flanges extending laterally outwardly of the central portion around the entire periphery thereof, with the central portion having a peripheral groove formed therein adjacent to an end flange. An outer gripping body of a relatively soft and resilient material is injection molded around the inner body, surrounding said central portion of said inner body and filling said groove.
Claims7
A hand tool comprising:
- a relatively hard and rigid inner body of unitary one-piece construction having an elongated central portion and two end flanges extending laterally outwardly of the central portion around the entire periphery thereof,
- said central portion having a peripheral annular groove formed therein adjacent to an end flange, and
- an outer gripping body formed of a relatively soft and flexible material surrounding said central portion of said inner body and terminating at said end flanges and filling said groove,
- each of said inner body and said outer gripping body having an outer surface which is non-circular in transverse cross section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.