E-Z shutter crank

• US 6,901,825 B1
• Filed: 01/02/2004
• Issued: 06/07/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Vicmar Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Vicmar Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Lebron, Victor L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, David B.
• Application Number:
  US10/751,158
• Time in Patent Office: 522 Days
• Field of Search: 811/211, 811/242, 811/761, 811/761.5, 811/762, 81/52, 81/531, D8/14, D8/26, D8/27, D8/29
• US Class Current: 81/124.2
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 13/5091 for operating on wing nuts, hooks, eye hooks or the like
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/78 for direct manual operation, e.g. by tassels, by handles

Abstract

Extension rod tools and method of using the tools for allowing power tools such as power drills and power screw drivers and socket wrenches to be able to open and/or close crank handles on windows and/or shutters. The novel tools can have flat sided ends that can attach to the power tools or socket wrenches, and have second opposite ends that fit over a raised t-shaped pin on the crank handle to the window/shutter. The second end of the rod tools can have a pair of opposite located slots that lock onto the t-shaped pins so that twisting the rod tools locks the rod tools to the crank handle. The slots can include clockwise oriented curved slots. The slots can include counter clockwise oriented curved slots. The slots can include oval shapes. The slots can include t-shapes. The rod tools can have a length of approximately 12 to approximately 18 inches or greater and a diameter of approximately ½ to approximately 1 inch, and be formed from a single piece of material, such as metal, or plastic, or composite or combinations thereof, and the like.

Claims

1. A tool for opening and closing windows or shutters having crank knobs with T-shaped pin knobs, comprising:

an elongated member having a first end adapted to be attached to one of a power tool and a socket wrench, and a second end;

an adapter head attached to the second end of the elongated member having a pair of opposite facing clockwise oriented lower-case b shaped slots adapted for engaging the T-shaped pins on a crank knob of a window or a shutter, so that the window or the shutter is opened and closed by the tool.

2. The tool of claim 1, wherein the elongated member includes:

an elongated length of at least approximately 12 inches long; and

a diameter of approximately ½

to approximately 1 inch.

3. The tool of claim 2, wherein the adapter head includes:

an opening for fitting over the T-shaped pins on the crank knob.

4. The tool of claim 1, wherein the adapter head and the elongated member include:

a single elongated rod.

5. The tool of claim 4, wherein the single elongated rod includes:

a cylindrical shape.

6. The tool of claim 1, wherein the first end of the elongated member includes:

a flat sided protruding portion extending from the elongated member.

7. The tool of claim 6, wherein the flat sided protruding portion includes:

a hexagon shaped perimeter.

8. A method of opening and closing a shutter and window having a crank handle with t-shaped pins, comprising the steps of:

providing an adapter head having a pair of opposite facing same directing facing and oriented lower-case b shaped slots

attaching one end of an extension rod to a separate tool selected from one of a power tool and a socket wrench;

overlapping an opening of the adapter head in an opposite second end of the extension rod about the t-shaped pin crank handle of the window or the shutter;

twisting the rod so that the t-shaped pins lock into the pair of slots that are perpendicular to the opening in the second end of the rod; and

rotating the rod with the separate tool to open or close the shutter or the window.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of:

orienting the pair of a pair of lower-case b shaped slots in a clockwise direction and orientation.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of:

orienting the pair of a pair of lower-case b shaped slots in a counter-clockwise direction and orientation.

16. The tool of claim 10, wherein the first end of the elongated member includes:

a flat sided protruding portion extending from the elongated member.

17. The tool of claim 16, wherein the flat sided protruding portion includes:

a hexagon shaped perimeter.

11. A tool for opening and closing windows or shutters having crank knobs with T-shaped pin knobs, comprising:

an elongated member having a first end adapted to be attached to one of a power tool and a socket wrench, and a second end;

an adapter head attached to the second end of the elongated member having a pair of opposite facing counter-clockwise oriented lower-case b shaped slots adapted for engaging the T-shaped pins on a crank knob of a window or a shutter, so that the window or the shutter is opened and closed by the tool.

12. The tool of claim 11, wherein the elongated member includes:

an elongated length of at least approximately 12 inches long; and

a diameter of approximately ½

to approximately 1 inch.

13. The tool of claim 12, wherein the adapter head includes:

an opening for fitting over the T-shaped pins on the crank knob.

14. The tool of claim 11, wherein the adapter head and the elongated member include:

a single elongated rod.

15. The tool of claim 14, wherein the single elongated rod includes:

a cylindrical shape.