Pivoted trigger means for power-operated reversible tool

• US 3,352,368 A
• Filed: 08/30/1965
• Issued: 11/14/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George E. Maffey Jr
• Original Assignee: George E. Maffey Jr
• Inventors: Maffey, George E. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US04/483,650
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• US Class Current: 173/169
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 21/00 Portable power-driven screw or nut setting or loosening tools; details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed B25F5/00; for mounting or dismounting wheels B60B29/006; Attachments for drilling apparatus serving the same purpose machines B23P19/06
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 9/063 enclosing a reversing switch

Claims

1. IN A PORTABLE POWER-OPERATED REVERSIBLE TOOL, THE COMBINATION OF:

(A) A HOUSING INCLUDING A PORTION PROVIDING A HANDLE FOR THE TOOL;

(B) SAID HANDLE HAVING RESPECTIVE ENDS AND A BOSS MEANS INTERMEDIATE SAID ENDS, AND SAID HANDLE FURTHER HAVING A RECESSED FRONT FACE RUNNING SUBSTANTIALLY THE FULL LENGTH OF SAID HANDLE BETWEEN SAID RESPECTIVELY ENDS;

AND (C) A SINGLE ELONGATED MANUALLY-MANIPULATABLE TRIGGER MEMBER HAVING AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION PRIVOTABLY MOUNTED ON SAID BOSS MEANS WITHIN SAID RECESSED FRONT FACE OF SAID HANDLE, SAID TRIGGER MEMBER FURTHER HAVING RESPECTIVE LEG PORTIONS EMANATING FROM ITS PIVOTATABLY-MOUNTED INTERMEDIATE PORTION AND TERMINATING ADJACENT TO SAID RESPECTIVE ENDS OF SAID HANDLE;