T-handle for tools

• US 3,113,479 A
• Filed: 12/15/1961
• Issued: 12/10/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George E. Swingle
• Original Assignee: George E. Swingle
• Inventors: Swingle, George E.
• Application Number:
  US04/159,597
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• US Class Current: 81/177.2
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 23/16 Handles in general B25G
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/105 for screwdrivers, wrenches or spanners B25G1/102, B25G1/125 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32262 At selected angle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/7041 including set screw

Claims

1. IN COMBINATION, A TOOL COMPRISING AN ELONGATED HORIZONTAL TUBULAR HANDLE HAVING A LONGITUDINAL SLOT IN ITS LOWER PORTION SPACED FROM ITS ENDS, SAID HANDLE INCLUDING AN INTERNALLY THREADED END PORTION, A WRENCH COMPRISING INTEGRAL, RELATIVELY LONG AND SHORT LEGS EXTENDING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO EACH OTHER, SAID SHORT LEG BEING INSERTABLE RADIALLY IN THE HANDLE IN PARALLELISM THEREWITH THROUGH THE SLOT AND SLIDABLE LONGITUDINALLY IN SAID HANDLE, AND A SCREW THREADEDLY MOUNTED IN SAID THREADED END PORTION OF THE HANDLE AND OPERATIVELY ENGAGEABLE WITH THE WRENCH AT THE JUNCTURE OF THE LEGS FOR CLAMPINGLY SECURING SAID WRENCH IN ONE END OF THE SLOT WITH THE LONG LEG EXTENDING FROM THE HANDLE AT RIGHT ANGLES THERETO, SAID SCREW INCLUDING THREADED END PORTIONS AND AN UNTHREADED INTERMEDIATE PORTION WHEREBY SAID SCREW IS SLIDABLY RETRACTIBLE TO AN INOPERATIVE POSITION SUBSTANTIALLY CLEAR OF THE SLOT FOR THE INSERTION OF THE SHORT LEG WHILE PARALLEL WITH THE HANDLE.