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US 6,634,261 B1Granted
Socket magazine
OwnerWendell Griffininventor
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Abstract
A socket magazine is made of a tubular body with a drive end and an open end. An O-ring lies in an annular groove in the tubular body and retains nuts in the tubular body while permitting them to squeeze past the O-ring for insertion into the magazine and removal from the magazine. A biasing spring biases the nuts toward the O-ring.
Claims12
A socket magazine, comprising:
- a tubular body defining an outside surface, an inside surface, a first end, a substantially open second end, and an annular groove in said inside surface proximate said second end;
- a continuous elastomeric ring lying in said groove, said continuous elastomeric ring defining a passageway into said tubular body;
- wherein said passageway defined by said elastomeric ring has a first large inside diameter end facing said first end of said tubular body and a second large inside diameter end facing said second end of said tubular body, and said passageway gradually tapers inwardly from said first and second large inside diameter ends toward an intermediate smaller inside diameter area;
- a socket in said first end for receiving a drive tool;
- and
- a biasing spring inside said tubular body, with one end of said spring pushing against said first end of said tubular body.
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A socket magazine, comprising:
- a tubular body defining an outside surface, an inside surface, a first end, a substantially open second end, and an annular groove in said inside surface proximate said second end, said annular groove having a fixed length and diameter;
- an elastomeric ring lying in said groove;
- a socket in said first end for receiving a drive tool;
- and
- a biasing spring inside said tubular body, with one end of said spring pushing against said first end of said tubular body, wherein said elastomeric ring is an O-ring, forming a passageway into said socket, said passageway having a first large inside diameter end facing said first end, a second large inside diameter end facing said second end, and gradually tapering toward a smaller inside diameter intermediate area.
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A socket magazine, comprising:
- a tubular body defining an outside surface, an inside surface, a first end, and a substantially open second end;
- said first end defining a socket in its outer surface for receiving a drive tool;
- said inside surface defining a plurality of elongated, opposed, flat drive surfaces located so as to contact the flat faces of a hexagonal nut;
- and said inside surface defining an annular groove proximate said second end;
- an O-ring received in said groove, said O-ring being sized to retain a hexagonal nut sized slightly smaller than the size defined by said opposed flat drive surfaces, and wherein said O-ring can be compressed into its annular groove to permit such a hexagonal nut to pass by;
- said O-ring forming a passageway into said tubular body, said passageway having large diameter first and second ends facing said first and second ends of said tubular body, respectively, and gradually tapering toward a smaller diameter intermediate portion;
- a biasing spring inside said tubular body adjacent to said first end;
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- a washer adjacent to said biasing spring, said washer being free to slide along said inside surface of said tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.