Tool handle

US6128808A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• SANDVIK AB · SE

Inventors

• Conny Jansson · Hagfors, SE
• Hans Himbert · Bromma, SE
• Håkan Bergkvist · Bromma, SE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 7, 1998
• Grant date: Oct 10, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 7, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S16/902
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Handle for tools such as screwdrivers, cormprising a core of hard plastic material around a metal shaft and a gripping surface (14) of soft material covering parts of the core, where the core within the regions covered by the gripping surface is made with a multitude of protruding lower blocks (17) with flat tops, and the soft material filling the space between lower blocks to the level of the tops of lower blocks (17) to form base surface (16) and a multitude of blocks (15) raised from the base surface, arranged in a repetitive pattern with voids where the lower blocks protrude.