Multi-angle adjustable screwdriver assembly

• US 6,308,599 B1
• Filed: 09/11/2000
• Issued: 10/30/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lin Fu-Hui
• Original Assignee: Lin Fu-Hui
• Inventors: Fu-Hui, Lin
• Primary Examiner(s): Morgan, Eileen P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DANGANAN, JONI BALDOS
• Application Number:
  US09/659,069
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 814/90, 811/778, 811/779, 811/772, 811/774, 811/776, 811/777, 814/38, 814/39, 814/40
• US Class Current: 81/490
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/066 the grip itself being angularly adjustable
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/085 for screwdrivers, wrenches or spanners

Abstract

A screwdriver assembly includes a hollow casing in which a tool body is pivotally received therein and a bit receiving member is rotatably received in the casing. A plurality of dimples defined in an inside of the casing and a boss extends from the tool body so that the boss is engaged with one of the dimples when rotating the tool body. An opening is defined in a periphery of the casing so that the tool body can be pivoted out from the casing via the opening. An access hole is defined through the casing so as to pick a bit in the bit receiving member and engaged with an engaging recess in the tool body.

Claims

1. A screwdriver assembly comprising:

a casing having an opening defined in a periphery thereof and a first axle located at a first end in said casing and a second axle located at a second end in said casing, an access hole defined through said casing and located beside said second axle;

a plurality of dimples defined in an inside of said casing and located around said first axle;

a tool body having a passage defined through a first end thereof and an engaging recess defined in a second end of said tool body, said first axle extending through said passage and a boss extending from said tool body, said tool body pivotally received in said casing and being rotatable about said first axle with said boss engaged with one of said dimples, and

a bit receiving member having a plurality of receiving holes defined in a side thereof and said bit receiving member rotatably mounted to said second axle, said access hole located in alignment with one of said receiving holes in said bit receiving member.

2. The screwdriver assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein a flexible member extends from said tool body and a button extends from said flexible member, a button hole defined through said periphery of said casing and said button received in said button hole, a plate located in said inside of said casing and said tool body having a slit defined therein, a torsion spring mounted to said first axle and received in said passage of said tool body, one end of said torsion spring engaged with said plate and the other end of said torsion spring engaged with said slit in said tool body.

3. The screwdriver assembly as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a separating wall located in said casing and a ridge extending from said separating wall, said bit receiving member having a plurality of grooves defined in an outer periphery thereof so that said ridge is engaged with one of said grooves in said bit receiving member.