Skateboard tool

• US 6,279,434 B1
• Filed: 07/10/2000
• Issued: 08/28/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David H. Brown
• Original Assignee: David H. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, David H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, James G.
• Application Number:
  US09/612,936
• Time in Patent Office: 414 Days
• Field of Search: 814/37--39, 814/90, 811/774, 713/8, 716/5
• US Class Current: 81/437
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 17/0006 Accessories
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 13/48 for special purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 13/56 Spanner sets
• CPC Class Codes: B25G 1/085 for screwdrivers, wrenches or spanners

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a tool for use on a skateboard and easily carried in a pants pocket of a user. The tool has a body is in the general shape of a “T” having a crossbar bisected by a stem and provides for three sockets of differing sizes, one of each being mounted at each end of the crossbar and the free end of the stem. Provision is also made for carrying a combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver and is in the general form of a standard Allen wrench having a long arm and a short arm normal to the long arm. This provision constitutes a cylindrical cavity with an opening at the intersection of the crossbar and stem and extending into the stem for distance adequate to accommodate the long arm of the combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver, which preferably is the Phillips head portion. This provision also provides a groove extending along the surface of the crossbar of such size and shape to accommodate the short arm of the combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver, which preferably is the Allen key portion. An “O” ring is positioned within the cylindrical cavity to provide a friction fit with the Phillips head screwdriver portion of the combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver. An “O” ring may be positioned circumferentially on the Allen key portion so as to provide an improved fit within the corresponding groove as an alternative or in conjunction with the cylindrical cavity “O” ring.

Claims

1. A skateboard tool comprising:

a “

T”

shaped body formed by a crossbar bisected by a stem, said crossbar having opposite ends and an upper surface defining a groove, said stem having a cylindrical cavity with an opening at the intersection of said crossbar and an opposite free end, said body having first and third sockets non-rotatably mounted at the respective ends of said crossbar, and a second socket non-rotatably mounted at the free end of said stem; and

a combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver element having a long arm and a short arm normal to said long arm, said combination element being removably insertable in said body such that said long arm extends into the cylindrical cavity of said stem and said short arm is positioned within the groove of the crossbar.

2. The skateboard tool of claim 1 wherein each of said sockets differs in size from each of the other said sockets.

3. The skateboard tool of claim 1 wherein said long arm of said combination element is Phillips head portion.

4. The skateboard tool of claim 1 wherein said short arm of said combination element is a Allen key portion.

5. The skateboard tool of claim 1 further comprising a “

O”

ring mounted within a circumferential seat located within said cylindrical cavity and so positioned as to provide a friction fit to retain said long arm of said combination Allen key and Phillips head screwdriver element.

6. The skateboard tool of claim 1 further comprising an “

O”

ring mounted within an annular slot surrounding said short arm of said combination element for frictionally retaining said short arm in the groove defined in said crossbar.

7. The skateboard tool of claim 5 further comprising an “

O”

ring mounted within an annular slot surrounding said short arm of said combination element for frictionally retaining said short arm in the groove defined in said crossbar.

8. The skateboard tool of claim 2 wherein said first socket is a {fraction (9/16)} inch socket, said second socket is a ⅜

inch socket, and said third socket is a ½

inch socket.