Socket wrench and ratchet attachment means

• US 6,009,777 A
• Filed: 11/06/1998
• Issued: 01/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Jack D. Jarvis
• Original Assignee: Jack D. Jarvis
• Inventors: Jarvis, Jack D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Eley, Timothy V.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BERRY JR, WILLIE WENDELL
• Application Number:
  US09/187,374
• Time in Patent Office: 424 Days
• Field of Search: 81/58, 81/58.4, 81/60, 81/61, 81/62, 81/63, 81/63.1, 81/63.2
• US Class Current: 81/60
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 13/461 with concentric driving and driven member
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 3/30 comprising screwed sockets or tangs

Abstract

A socket wrench and ratchet attachment, including a wrench housing, a wrench handle that threadedly engages within the housing, the housing having an opening therein, into which a socket wrench or ratchet may snugly insert, and be bound into position for usage, upon turning of the handle into an engaging position. The handle has a series of stepped down extensions, that matingly fit within a bore and counterbore formed within the wrench housing, to provide for there mating engagement, when locking a socket wrench or ratchet into a position of utility.

Claims

1. A socket wrench and ratchet attachment comprising:

a ratcheting mechanism;

a wrench handle having a neck portion and a rod extending from the neck portion;

a wrench housing having a generally annular portion and an extension extending from the annular portion;

the annular portion defining an opening sized to accept a ratcheting mechanism;

said annular portion having at least one straight side wall, and said ratcheting mechanism also having at least one straight side wall and provided to mate against the side wall of the wrench housing when inserted therein;

the extension having a first bore sized to accept the handle neck, and a counterbore at an end of the first bore sized to accept the rod;

the counterbore communicating with the annular portion of the wrench housing;

said handle rod is sized to extend through the wrench housing counterbore to extend into the opening of the annular portion to engage the ratcheting mechanism when received in the wrench housing;

said handle rod and wrench housing counterbore are threaded so that the handle can be screwed into the wrench housing;

said threaded rod may be screwed into the wrench housing counterbore to bear against the ratcheting mechanism to hold the ratchet mechanism in the wrench housing opening, and wherein the threaded rod can be unscrewed from the wrench housing counterbore, and out of contact with the ratcheting mechanism to allow the ratcheting mechanism to be removed from the wrench housing.