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US RE40,765 E1Granted
Fluid-operated power tool
AssigneetorcUp, Inc.
InventorJohn R. Kovacs
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Abstract
A fluid-operated power tool has an engaging part including an engaging element for engaging and turning a threaded connector, and a drive part including a fluid-operated drive with a cylinder and a piston movable in the cylinder for turning the engaging element under the action of fluid admitted to the cylinder, the power drive part having a width which substantially does not exceed a width of the engaging part.
Claims5
A fluid-operated tool, comprising an engaging part including an engaging element for engaging and turning a threaded connector;
- and a drive part including a fluid-operated drive with a cylinder and a piston movable in said cylinder under the action of fluid admitted into said cylinder for turning said engaging element, said cylinder having a substantially non-round inner chamber and a substantially non-round cross-section with an outer width which substantially does not exceed width of said engaging part and an outer length which exceeds said width of said cylinder, said piston being substantially non-round in correspondence with a non-round shape of said inner chamber and having a cross-sectional shape with a length which is grater than a width, so as to allow working with the fluid-operated power tool in a limited clearance area because of a smaller outer width of said cylinder than its length and at the same time to provide transmission of a high torque because of the greater length of said piston than its width.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.