Handle adapter

• US 4,699,020 A
• Filed: 05/15/1986
• Issued: 10/13/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/1984
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: International Paper Company
• Original Assignee: Champion International Corporation (International Paper Company)
• Inventors: Wilson, Frank, Woyak, Mark, Bush, Eugenia
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Gary L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Luong, Vinh
• Application Number:
  US06/865,641
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 74/543-546, 81/177.2, 81/177.5, 81/177.6, 81/436, 173/163
• US Class Current: 74/544
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/0028 Tools for removing or installing seals B25B27/0092 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/002 for rotary tools with additional levers, e.g. for increasing torque B25G1/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/20738 Extension

Abstract

A packing hood handle adapter for providing an increased manual torque producing leverage to an elongated tool stem. The handle adapter includes an elongated body for providing the increased torque. The diameter or thickness of the elongated body is provided such that it can include an interior chamber defined by the body side wall which is large enough to receive the oppositely extending transverse handle or cross-member of the "T-shaped" handle. A longitudinal opening in the body side wall is in communication with the interior chamber and is wider and longer than the T-shaped handle to permit the cross-member to move into and out of the interior chamber. A transverse opening is provided to accomodate and seat the stem when the cross-member or oppositely extending transverse handle is in the interior chamber. The transverse opening is intermediate the ends of both the interior chamber and the longitudinal member, and in the case of the standard packing hook handle adapter, is at right angles thereto. The transverse opening can be a cylindrical hole or a semi-cylindrical slot or other channel.

Claims

1. In combination with a tool having an elongated stem portion and a tee-shaped handle mounted at one end of said stem portion, an adapter for providing increased torquing and pulling leverage to the tool, said adapter comprising an elongated tubular body having an axial through passage bounded by an annular side wall, a longitudinal opening formed in said body side wall, said longitudinal opening being sized so as to allow passage of the tool handle through said longitudinal opening into said through passage, and a transverse opening extending into said body side wall from two opposite sides of said longitudinal opening, said transverse opening being disposed on said adaptor and extending a sufficient transverse distance into said adaptor to pass through said longitudinal opening and into said through passage, said transverse opening being sized to allow entry of the tool stem portion into said transverse opening when the tool handle is disposed in said through passage.