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US 8,074,539 B2Granted
Socket device with indication portion
OwnerYu-Chun Lininventor
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Abstract
A socket device with an indication portion comprises a colored sleeve; the sleeve being made by high molecular organic plastics; a socket; the sleeve being rotatable installed on the socket; an indication portion on a surface of the sleeve for indicating a value about the size of the socket. The socket has an annular recess for receiving the sleeve. The sleeve may be an annular ring; or the sleeve is a C ring; or the sleeve has a protrusion and the protrusion is received in the annular recess.
Claims4
A socket assembly comprising:
- a socket having a flange formed at an upper edge thereof, said socket having a first portion in spaced relation to said flange and a second portion extending from said first portion at an end thereof opposite said flange, said first portion having a diameter greater than a diameter of said second portion, said first portion having a periphery adjacent said second portion, said periphery having a plurality of slide-stop trenches formed therein, said socket having an annular recess formed between said flange and said first portion;
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- a colored sleeve formed of an elastic high molecular organic polymer, said colored sleeve being rotatably positioned on said annular recess, said colored sleeve having an outer diameter slightly greater than said diameter of said first portion, said sleeve having indicia thereon indication of a size of said socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.