Screw hook socket
OwnerJames Tassano, Eric L. Willsoninventors
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Abstract
A tool comprising a drive shaft with a longitudinal axis and a socket attached to the drive shaft. The socket includes a cavity having a substantially rectangular opening defined by a pair of parallel side walls of the first side length and a U-shaped wall having two parallel walls adjacent to the opening and a curved portion of the U-shaped wall opposite the opening. In this manner, the cavity is shaped to fit the contour of a typical screw hook such that the screw hook can be anchored to a wall or ceiling with relative ease because the screw hook will not rotate away from the longitudinal axis of the tool.
Claims15
A tool, comprising:
- a drive shaft having a longitudinal axis and having a first end and a second opposite end;
- and
- a cavity attached to the first end of the drive shaft, the cavity having a substantially rectangular opening with a first side length longer than a second side length, the opening having a normal in a direction that is at a non-zero angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the cavity further defined by a pair of parallel side walls of the first side length and a U-shaped wall having two parallel walls adjacent to the opening and a curved portion of the U-shaped wall opposite the opening.
A tool, comprising:
- a drive shaft having a longitudinal axis and having a first end and a second opposite end;
- and
- an engaging enclosure having an opening wherein the normal of the opening is in a direction that is at a non-zero angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the drive shaft, the engaging enclosure attached to the first end of the drive shaft and operable to engage an object wherein the engaging enclosure applies a substantially equal and opposite forces to the object at an angle other than perpendicular to the longitudinal axis when the object is rotated about an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
A method, comprising:
- engaging an object with a tool having a cavity attached to a first end of a drive shaft having a longitudinal axis, the cavity having a substantially rectangular opening with a first side length longer than a second side length, the opening having a normal in a direction that is at a non-zero angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the cavity further defined by a pair of parallel side walls of the first side length and a U-shaped wall having two parallel walls adjacent to the opening and a curved portion of the U-shaped wall opposite the opening;
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- rotating the object about the longitudinal axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.