Ratchet wheel wrench
AssigneeZhejiang Yiyang Tool Manufacture Co., Ltd.
InventorLi Feng
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Abstract
This invention relates to a wrench, especially a ratchet wheel wrench. The ratchet wheel wrench includes a wrench head on which a ratchet wheel groove and a crescent groove communicating the ratchet wheel groove are attached, a ratchet wheel is disposed in the ratchet wheel groove, a ratchet tooth support is disposed at one side of in the crescent groove, a spring is disposed at one end of the ratchet tooth support; a reed is disposed at the side in the crescent groove opposite the ratchet tooth support, one end of the reed is mounted in the crescent groove along the inner wall of the crescent groove, a protuberance is disposed at the other side of the reed, the protuberance is disposed in the spring.
Claims4
A ratchet wheel wrench, comprising:
- a wrench head having
- a ratchet wheel groove;
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- a crescent groove communicating with the ratchet wheel groove, wherein the crescent groove has a first end portion and a second end portion and includes a sidewall forming a crescent curve therebetween;
- a ratchet wheel having a first plurality of teeth, wherein the ratchet wheel is positioned in the ratchet wheel groove;
- a ratchet tooth support having a second plurality of teeth and a tuber, wherein the ratchet tooth support is positioned in the second end portion of the crescent groove and the second plurality of teeth are positioned to releasably engage the first plurality of teeth;
- a reed having an elongated shape, a first end and a second end, wherein the first end extends from the first end portion of the crescent groove directly towards the second end portion, wherein the second end of the reed includes a protuberance, wherein the reed extends along the crescent curve on the sidewall, and wherein the reed between the first end and the protuberance is firmly mounted to the sidewall of the crescent groove;
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- a spring operably coupled to the ratchet tooth support via the tuber and to the reed via the protuberance, wherein the spring is positioned to bias the ratchet tooth support towards the ratchet wheel to engage the first plurality of teeth with the second plurality of teeth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.