US 9,038,506 B1Granted

Socket wrench with positioning device

OwnerMiao-Chi Huang, Jen-Kai Liinventors

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Abstract

A socket wrench with a positioning device contains: a body including an accommodating cavity, a first face, and a second face. A toothed holder is accommodated in the accommodating cavity and has a polygonal groove, a first circular portion, a second circular portion, and a ratchet protrusion between the first circular portion and the second circular portion. The first circular portion is inserted to the first face, the second circular portion is inserted to the second face, and the ratchet protrusion engages with a ratchet device. A positioning device includes at least one retaining element disposed on the first circular portion and horizontally moving in the polygonal groove. The first circular portion has a resilient element and a pressing loop which are fitted on the first circular, and the pressing loop has a recess defined on an inner face thereof to correspond to the at least one retaining element.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A socket wrench with a positioning device comprising:

a body including an accommodating cavity defined in at least one end thereof, a first face, and a second face;
a toothed holder accommodated in the accommodating cavity of the body and having a polygonal groove defined therein, a first circular portion and a second circular portion which are arranged around a peripheral side of the toothed holder, and a ratchet protrusion defined between the first circular portion and the second circular portion, the first circular portion being inserted to the first face of the body, the second circular portion being inserted to the second face of the body, and the ratchet protrusion engaging with a ratchet device;
a positioning device including at least one retaining element disposed on the first circular portion of the toothed holder and horizontally moving in the polygonal groove, wherein the first circular portion of the toothed holder has a resilient element and a pressing loop which are fitted on the first circular, and the pressing loop has a recess defined on an inner face thereof to correspond to the at least one retaining element.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/459,797Filed 14 Aug 2014
Granted: 26 May 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

B25B 23/0035
Connections or joints between tool parts: connection means between socket or screwdriver bit and tool
B25B 13/06
With rigid jaws: of socket type
B25B 13/461
Of the ratchet type, for providing a free return stroke of the handle: with concentric driving and driven member
B25B 13/462
With concentric driving and driven member: the ratchet parts engaging in a direction radial to the tool operating axis

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