Copper pipe cleaning tool
AssigneeGayle Brueggeman
InventorThomas L. Tope
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Abstract
The invention includes a holder body having a first tubular portion flaring into a second tubular portion. A wall separates the first tubular portion from the second tubular portion. A hard wire brush is affixed to the inner surface of the first tubular portion, and a hard wire brush is affixed to the inner surface of the second tubular portion. A drive shank is provided having an end for use in a chuck or collet of a drill, and a free end sized to be received either by a socket located in the first tubular bore or a socket provided in the second tubular bore. Further, a brush shank is provided having a hard wire brush attached at one end. The free end of the brush shank sized to be removably received by either the first or second tubular sockets.
Claims2
A tool for cleaning the outside and inside surfaces of a pipe in preparation for soldering comprising:
- a holder body having a longitudinal axis and having a first tubular portion with a first diameter, the first tubular portion flaring into a second tubular portion having a diameter larger than the first diameter;
- a transverse wall separating the first tubular portion from the second tubular portion;
- the first tubular portion having an axial bore;
- a hard wire brush affixed to the inner surface of the first tubular portion within the axial bore and extending in a radial direction toward the longitudinal axis;
- a first tubular socket affixed on the longitudinal axis in the first tubular bore to the wall separating the first tubular portion from the second tubular portion;
- the first tubular socket having a polygonal-shaped opening which opens into the first tubular bore;
- the second tubular bore having an axial bore;
- a hard wire brush affixed to the inner surface of the second tubular portion within the axial bore and extending in a radial diameter toward the longitudinal axis;
- a second tubular socket affixed on the longitudinal axis in the second tubular bore to the wall separating the first tubular portion with the second tubular portion;
- the second tubular socket having a polygonal-shaped opening which opens into the second tubular bore;
- the first and second tubular sockets sized and shaped to be identical;
- a drive shank having an end for use in a chuck or collar of a drill or other motor drive and a free end;
- the free end of the drive shank having polygonal exterior shape sized to be removably received by the first or second tubular sockets;
- a brush shank having a free end and a hard wire brush attached at the other end of the brush shank;
- the brush extending in a radial direction away from the brush shank;
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- the free end of the brush shank having a polygonal exterior shape sized to be removably received by either the first or second tubular sockets.
A tool for cleaning the outside and inside surfaces of a pipe in preparation for soldering comprising:
- a holder body having a longitudinal axis and having a first tubular portion with a first diameter, the first tubular portion flaring into a second tubular portion having a diameter larger than the first diameter;
- a transverse wall separating the first tubular portion from the second tubular portion;
- the first tubular portion having an axial bore;
- a hard wire brush affixed to the inner surface of the first tubular portion within the axial bore and extending in a radial direction toward the longitudinal axis;
- a first tubular socket affixed on the longitudinal axis in the first tubular bore to the wall separating the fist tubular portion from the second tubular portion;
- the first tubular socket having a polygonal-shaped opening which opens into the first tubular bore;
- the second tubular portion having an axial bore;
- a hard wire brush affixed to the inner surface of the second tubular portion within the axial bore and extending in a radial direction toward the longitudinal axis;
- a second tubular socket affixed on the longitudinal axis in the second tubular bore to the wall separating the first tubular portion with the second tubular portion;
- the second tubular socket having a polygonal-shaped opening which opens into the second tubular bore;
- the first and second tubular sockets sized and shaped to be identical;
- a brush shank having a free end and a hard wire brush attached to the other end of the brush shank;
- the brush extending in a radial direction away from the brush shank;
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- the free end of the brush shank having a polygonal exterior shape sized to be removably received by either the first or second tubular sockets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.