Quick connect handle for swimming pool cleaning tools

• US 4,247,216 A
• Filed: 08/22/1979
• Issued: 01/27/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Andrew L. Pansini
• Original Assignee: Andrew L. Pansini
• Inventors: Pansini, Andrew L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kee Chi, James
• Application Number:
  US06/068,645
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 403/108, 403/109, 403/329, 403/324, 403/322, 15/144 B, 15/145
• US Class Current: 403/109.3
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 3/18 comprising catches or pawls
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 3/26 comprising nails, screws, bolts, or pins traversing or entering the socket
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/1609 Hand-held strainers, non-powered brushes or scrubbers
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 7/042 with a locking element, e.g. pin, ball or pushbutton, engaging in a hole in the wall of at least one tube
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 1/112 the interengaging parts comprising torque-transmitting surfaces, e.g. bayonet joints
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 16/24 Handle fastening means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 16/40 Attaching means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 16/41 Coupling, e.g. handle, rod, shaft
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/32483 Spring biased
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/591 having operating mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/598 Transversely sliding pin
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 403/606 Leaf spring

Abstract

A tool handle is fitted with a spring member having thumb buttons extending through one set of handle apertures and locking buttons extending through another set of handle apertures, and a pool pole is connected to the handle by being fitted within the handle and provided with a set of apertures through which the locking buttons also extend.

Claims

1. A tool handle adapted to telescope over the end of a pool pole, said handle having adjacent its distal end a pair of diametrally opposed first apertures, and having adjacent thereto and aligned therewith a pair of diametrally opposed second apertures, and a wishbone-like spring member positioned within said handle by a pair of outer opposed thumb buttons carried thereby and extending into said first apertures and by a pair of inner opposed locking buttons carried thereby and extending into said second apertures, said thumb buttons being greater in axial length than said locking buttons whereby a conjoint but partial depressing of said thumb buttons frees said locking buttons from said second apertures while said thumb buttons still extend into said first apertures, said spring member being freeable for removal from said handle by a conjoint and substantially full depressing of said thumb buttons to free the same from said first apertures, said handle being attachable to said pool pole by means comprising a pair of diametrally opposed third apertures formed in said pole adjacent the distal end thereof and by said locking buttons which are adapted to extend through said third apertures and into said second apertures.

2. The tool handle of claim 1, said handle having adjacent its proximal end a pair of diametrally opposed fourth apertures corresponding in size to said second apertures.