Device for transmitting torque

US4273173A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SV TOOL CORPORATION · US

Inventors

• Lloyd T. Smith · Newton, US
• Alan Bartholomew · Pasadena, US
• Robert W. Fee · Wichita, US
• Michael Meister · Wichita, US
• Richard J. Robbins · Derby, US
• Richard E. Ten Eyck · Wichita, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 1979
• Grant date: Jun 16, 1981
• Expiry date: Oct 17, 1999

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B25G1/085
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A screwdriver or the like has a shank adapted to hold any one of a number of double ended bits together with a handle for the shank having storage slots for those bits not being held in place by the shank. A split ring, rotatable on the stem of the handle, holds the stored bits against displacement until the ring is rotated to place the space between the ends of the ring into alignment with a selected slot.