Tool set of the type having slide-out and swing-out tools

• US 4,384,499 A
• Filed: 03/20/1981
• Issued: 05/24/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1981
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harmon P. Yates
• Original Assignee: Harmon P. Yates
• Inventors: Shockley, Cy
• Primary Examiner(s): Schran, Donald R.
• Application Number:
  US06/246,085
• Time in Patent Office: 795 Days
• Field of Search: 81/439, 81/440, 81/436, 81/177 E
• US Class Current: 81/440
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 1/04 wherein the elements are brought into working positions by a pivoting or sliding movement
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/08 with provision for storing tool elements

Abstract

A multi-configurational tool device with improved tool storage. The device is of the type having a plurality of tools, each including a pair of angularly disposed, integrally joined elongate shanks having working ends and a surface run having facets. The device, additionally, has an elongate carrier including an elongate channel with a base and an open side extending longitudinally of the channel. The base cooperates with a pivot member secured to the carrier and spaced apart from the base to form a nip region through which the tool shanks are moved for positioning of the tools in a working mode. The improvement includes a groove at least partially encircling a shank of a tool to accommodate rotating of the shank about its longitudinal axis to permit a change in the extension direction of the associated integral shank.

Claims

1. A multiconfigurational tool device comprising

an elongate carrier unit including means therein defining a nip region,

at least one tool unit carried by said carrier unit including a pair of angularly disposed integrally joined elongate shank portions having working ends each operable in a working mode with rotation of the associated shank portion about its longitudinal axis as a unit with said carrier unit, each shank portion including a surface run having facets enabling movement of the shank portion longitudinally relative to said nip region while inhibiting rotation of the shank portion about its longitudinal axis relative to the nip region, and further enabling shifting of said tool unit under a circumstance with the region of joinder of said shank portions disposed in said nip region permitting alternate positioning of each shank portion within said nip region, and

groove means formed transversely on, and interrupting a facet in, at least one of said shank portions, operable when disposed in said nip region, through cooperation therewith, to accommodate rotation of said one shank portion relative to said carrier unit about the shank portion'"'"'s longitudinal axis.

2. An improved tool set of the type having a plurality of tool units, each unit including a pair of integrally joined elongate shank portions disposed at a substantial angle relative to one another, with each shank portion having a working end, and with one shank portion in each tool being characterized by a facet extending substantially along its length, said set also having an elongate tool-holding body including an elongate shank portion support member extending longitudinally of said body for receiving said tool units, and having a pivot member secured to said body, spaced outwardly from said support member and overlying, transversely, the facet in the one shank portion of each tool unit to permit longitudinal adjustment of the tool unit relative to said body, while inhibiting rotation of the tool unit about the long axis of the one shank portion, wherein the improvement comprises

means in the form of a groove in the facet of each said one shank portion, coactible with said pivot member to accommodate such rotation of the one shank portion of each tool unit about the one shank portion'"'"'s long axis to permit a change in the extension direction of the associated integral shank portion.