Storage device for screwdriver bits or the like and chuck therefor

• US 6,050,409 A
• Filed: 03/26/1999
• Issued: 04/18/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Klaus Delbeck, Ralf Moller
• Original Assignee: Klaus Delbeck, Ralf Moller
• Inventors: Moller, Ralf, Delbeck, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): Sewell, Paul T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BUI, LUAN KIM
• Application Number:
  US09/194,482
• Time in Patent Office: 389 Days
• Field of Search: 206/349, 206/372, 206/373, 206/376-379, 211/70.6, 211/69
• US Class Current: 206/375
• CPC Class Codes: B25H 3/003 Holders for drill bits or the like

Abstract

The invention relates to a storage device (1) for screwdriver bits (13) or the like and a chuck (20) therefor in a compartment, in which the screwdriver bits (13) with their clamping shafts inserted in pockets and the chuck (20) having a head (21) with an insertion aperture can be removed after the storage device has been opened. To provide a construction which is easy to use and promotes sales, the invention proposes that, with the storage device (1) closed, the operative ends (14) of the screwdriver bits (13) and the head (21) of the chuck (20) be exposed to the outside.

Claims

1. An openable and closeable storage device adapted for and to be used in combination with screwdriver bits and a chuck, for the bits, to be held in the storage device, the storage device comprising

a first housing portion pivotably mounted on a second housing portion, pivotable from open conditions into a closed condition with said housing portions in a complementary interengaging position of minimum space,

at least one of the housing portions formed such that the screwdriver bits with their clamping shafts being insert able in pockets of the storage device and the chuck having a receiving head being insertable in a recess of the storage device are removable respectively from said pockets and said recess only after the storage device has been opened into an open condition, wherein,

the housing portions formed such that in the closed condition of the housing portions of the storage device with said screwdriver bits and said chuck inserted in said pockets and said recess, respectively, operative ends of the screwdriver bits and the receiving head of the chuck are open to, being exposed to outside of the storage device through open regions in broad faces of the storage device, and a diameter of the receiving head of the chuck is greater than the thickness of the storage device and said recess is open to said broad surfaces and to an edge surface of the storage device.

2. A storage device for screwdriver bits having shafts and operative ends respectively and for a chuck having a chuck shaft, and an operative end of the chuck, the storage device comprising.

a first housing portion which forms a pivoting bar,

a second housing portion defining a first free space, a complementary free space, and front and back broad faces,

the Pivoting bar engaging pivotably at both ends of the bar in said second housing portion and, in a pivoted-in state constituting a final closed position of said housing portions, merely pivoted into said first free space of the second housing portion spaced apart from said second housing portion adjacent said complementary free space, a pivot axis being disposed respectively in end regions of said housing portions, and

the pivoting bar having receiving pockets extending from a narrow face of the pivoting bar, said receiving pockets extending transversely to the pivot axis, and adapted for receiving therein the shafts of the screwdriver bits, the receiving pockets at free ends thereof in said narrow face having mouth openings, respectively, and the receiving pockets being such that said operative ends of the screwdriver bits project out of the mouth openings when said shaft of said screwdriver bits are inserted into said receiving pockets, and

in the pivoted-in state, a part region of the second housing portion being disposed at an axial spacing in front of the receiving pockets, and wherein

the first free space is open through both said broad faces of the second housing portion and, in the pivoted-in state, said first free space receives the pivoting bar filling all of said first free space, and

said complementary free space of the second housing portion in the pivoted-in state adjoins the mouth openings of the receiving pockets and is adapted to receive the operative ends of the screwdriver bits when said shafts of said screwdriver bits are fully inserted into said receiving pockets, and said complementary free space remaining open, exposing the operative ends of the bits, to said front broad face towards a front end of the second housing portion with said narrow face of said pivoting bar having said mouth openings on said first housing portion adjacent said mouth openings and said complementary free space being spaced apart from said second housing portion in said pivoted-in closed position of said housing portions.

3. A storage device according to claim 2, wherein the receiving pockets have a radial spacing from the pivot axis.

4. A storage device according to claim 2, wherein the thickness of the pivoting bar corresponds to the thickness of the second housing portion.

5. A storage device according to claim 2, wherein on said second housing portion there extends in the first free space at least one lateral pivot-limiting-stop.

6. A storage device according to claim 2, further comprising limiting fins on said second housing portion, said limiting fins penetrate into the complementary free space, axially abuttingly securing the screwdriver bits when said shafts of said screwdriver bits are fully disposed in said receiving pockets in said pivoted-in state.

7. A storage device for screwdriver bits having shafts and operative ends respectively and for a chuck having a chuck shaft, and an operative end of the chuck, the storage device comprising

a first housing portion which forms a pivoting bar,

a second housing portion defining a first free space, complementary free space, and front and back broad faces,

the pivoting bar engaging pivotably at both ends of the bar in said second housing portion and, in a pivoted-in state, pivoting into said first free space of the second housing portion, a pivot axis being disposed respectively in end regions of said housing portions, and

the pivoting bar having receiving pockets extending transversely to the pivot axis and adapted for receiving therein the shafts of the screwdriver bits, the receiving pockets at free ends thereof having mouth openings, respectively, and the receiving pockets being such that said operative ends of the screwdriver bits project out of the mouth openings when said shaft of said screwdriver bits are inserted into said receiving pockets, and

in the pivoted-in state, a dart region of the second housing portion being disposed at an axial spacing in front of the receiving pockets, and wherein

the first free space is open through both said broad faces of the second housing portion and, in the pivoted-in state, said first free space receives the pivoting bar filling all of said first free space, and

said complementary free space of the second housing portion in the pivoted-in state adjoins the mouth openings of the receiving pockets and is adapted to receive the operative ends of the screwdriver bits when said shafts of said screwdriver bits are inserted into said receiving pockets, and said complementary free space is open to said front broad face towards a front end of the second housing portion,

insertion aperture in said pivoting bar parallel to the pivot axis and disposed between the pivot axis and the receiving pockets, said insertion aperture connects with a recess in said pivoting bar which recess is open to an edge surface and to a broad surface of said pivoting bar, and

in front of said insertion aperture, in the pivoted-in state, there is, in axial extension, a part region of the second housing portion.

8. A storage device according to claim 7, wherein in an acute-angled pivoted-open position of said housing portions, the screwdriver bits, when the shafts thereof are disposed in the receiving pockets, are removable, and the chuck is adapted to have said chuck shaft inserted in the insertion aperture, and a receiving head of said chuck, of greater diameter than that of said chuck shaft, engaged in the recess, and said chuck is removable only in a pivoted-open position of greater angle than that of said acute-angled pivoted-open position.

9. A storage device according to claim 8, wherein the diameter of the receiving head is greater than the thickness of the pivoting bar.

10. A storage device according to claim 8, wherein said pivoted-open position of greater angle than that of said acute-angled pivoted-open position is a right-angled pivoted-open position of said housing portions.

11. A storage device for screwdriver bits having shafts and operative ends respectively and for a chuck having a chuck shaft, and an operative end of the chuck, the storage device comprising

a first housing portion which forms a pivoting bar,

a second housing portion defining a first free space, a complementary free space, and front and back broad faces,

the pivoting bar engaging pivotably at both ends of the bar in said second housing portion and, in a pivoted-in state, pivoting into said first free space of the second housing portion, a pivot axis being disposed respectively in end regions of said housing portions, and

the pivoting bar having receiving pockets extending transversely to the pivot axis and adapted for receiving therein the shafts of the screwdriver bits, the receiving pockets at free ends thereof having mouth openings, respectively, and the receiving pockets being such that said operative ends of the screwdriver bits project out of the mouth openings when said shaft of said screwdriver bits are inserted into said receiving pockets, and

in the pivoted-in state, a part region of the second housing portion being disposed at an axial spacing in front of the receiving pockets, and wherein

the first free space is open through both said broad faces of the second housing portion and, in the pivoted-in state, said first free space receives the pivoting bar to filling all of said first free space, and

said complementary free space of the second housing portion in the pivoted-in state adjoins the mouth openings of the receiving Rockets and is adapted to receive the operative ends of the screwdriver bits when said shafts of said screwdriver bits are inserted into said receiving pockets, and said complementary free space is open to said front broad face towards a front end of the second housing portion, and

latching means disposed in a region of a separating joint extending parallel to the pivot axis.

12. A storage device according to claim 11, wherein said latching means comprises a latching groove on said pivoting bar, said groove extending parallel to said pivot axis, and a latching ridge on said second housing part releasably engageable on said latching groove.