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US 6,902,089 B2Granted
Quick release tool mounting bracket
OwnerJeffrey D. Carnevaliinventor
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Abstract
A tool bracket for elongated tools. The tool bracket includes a mounting base having a mechanism for attaching to an external structure, a forked tool holder rotatably coupled to the mounting base and having pair of interconnected tines projecting from a neck portion, and a resilient biasing member coupled between the mounting base and the forked tool holder for urging relative rotation between the forked tool holder and the mounting base.
Claims23
A tool bracket, comprising:
- a mounting base formed along a rotational axis;
- a holder structured to engage an elongated portion of a tool, the holder having a forked tool engaging structure formed along a rotational axis that is common with the rotational axis of the mounting base and joined for rotation relative to the mounting base about the common rotational axis;
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- a resilient biasing member coupled to each of the holder and the mounting base and being structured to promote rotation between the holder and the mounting base about the common rotational axis.
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A tool bracket comprising:
- a mounting base having a mechanism for attaching to an external structure;
- a forked tool holder rotatably coupled to the mounting base and having pair of interconnected tines projecting from a neck portion along an axis of rotation;
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- a resilient biasing member coupled between the mounting base and the forked tool holder for urging relative rotation between the forked tool holder and the mounting base about the axis of rotation of the forked tool holder.
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A tool bracket comprising:
- a mounting base having a mechanism for attaching to an external structure;
- a forked tool holder rotatably coupled to the mounting base and having pair of interconnected tines projecting from a neck portion;
- a resilient biasing member coupled between the mounting base and the forked tool holder for urging relative rotation between the forked tool holder and the mounting base;
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- wherein the forked tool holder includes an internal cavity formed opposite from the neck portion and the interconnected tines projecting therefrom, the internal cavity having structure for engaging a first portion of the resilient biasing member and further having structure for engaging a second portion of the resilient biasing member opposite from the first portion.
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A bracket for securing a tool having an elongated portion, the bracket comprising:
- an attaching means and a tool engaging means both being formed along a common axis of rotation wherein:
- the attaching means is structured for attaching to an external structure,
- the tool engaging means is structured for securely engaging an elongated portion of a tool, and
- the engaging means is rotatably coupled to the attaching means for mutual relative rotation about the common axis of rotation;
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- a means coupled between the engaging means and the attaching means for resiliently rotationally biasing the engaging means relative to the attaching means about the common axis of rotation.
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A tool bracket for engaging and retaining an elongated portion of a tool, the tool bracket comprising:
- a tool holder having a foot portion with a forked portion extending therefrom along an axis of rotation;
- a mounting base having a shoe portion rotatably interconnected with the foot portion of the tool holder for rotation about the axis of rotation;
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- a spring positioned between the foot portion and the shoe portion, the spring being coupled to each of the foot portion and the shoe portion and supplying a reactive rotational force about the axis of rotation in an opposite direction to a rotational force input from an external source.
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A tool bracket for engaging and retaining an elongated portion of a tool, the tool bracket comprising:
- a forked tool holder comprising a neck portion extending from a foot portion and a pair of elongated tines extended from the neck portion along a common axis of rotation, the foot portion having an open mouth cavity formed therein opposite from the neck portion and tines;
- a shoe portion separate from the forked tool holder, the shoe portion having an open mouth cavity formed therein opposite from the forked tool holder and being coupled to the foot portion of the tool holder along the common axis of rotation for mutual relative rotation about the common axis of rotation with the two open mouth cavities being joined in a combined cavity;
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- a spring within the combined cavity and coupled between the shoe portion and the foot portion of the tool holder for relatively rotationally biasing the forked tool holder and shoe portion about the common axis of rotation.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.