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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7814817 | Manual setting and forming tools The present invention is directed to kit or assembly of hand-held jewelry tools. The kit includes a least one pair of handles and one or more pairs of interchangeable jaws. Each set of jaws when attached to the pair of handles is adapted to perform a particular jewe... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7730811 | Clamping and cutting apparatus with interchangeable heads An interchangeable head system for tools is provided. The system includes a pair of handles connected at a pivot point. Each handles has two generally parallel walls forming a space therebetween, and a moveable pin attached therethrough. The pin is non-removably att... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7712398 | Spring plier A spring plier is disclosed. The plier comprises a clipping handle and two symmetrical plier leg plates, and the clipping handle including two reverse direction similar shape plier plates mounted with rivets, the handle mounted with a cover, characterized in that th... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7497150 | Pliers for C or E-shaped fasteners A pair of pliers has two bodies, a pair of heads and two connection devices. The bodies are pivotally connected with each other, and each body has a handle and a shank formed respectively at two ends of the body. The heads are detachably attached respectively to the... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7415912 | Locking clamp device An improved locking clamp device having independently extendable jaws and interchangeable quick release clamping members, said clamping members configured in unlimited variations of shape, texture, and hardness and optionally being moveable relative to the jaws of t... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7399101 | Lighted plier hand tool apparatus A lighted plier hand tool apparatus including a pivoting hub device containing a first opening, an opposed second opening, and a passage therethrough extending from the first opening to the second opening. The plier hand tool apparatus further includes a first plier... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7373862 | Clamp device An improved clamp device having interchangeable quick release clamping members, said clamping members being moveable relative to the jaws of the device and being magnetic so as to retain the clamp device to a ferro-metallic work piece. The improvements allow increas... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363669 | Multipurpose locking pliers A folding multipurpose tool including adjustable locking pliers with an over-center locking mechanism to retain the jaws in a gripping condition. The jaws of the locking pliers can be folded into the handles of the tool to produce a compact folded configuration. A l... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7353736 | Enhanced multi-function hand tool A multi-function hand tool with a pivotally collapsible jaw-type tool that has a jaw lock which mechanically prevents the jaw-type tool from collapse is disclosed. The jaw lock mechanism is contained within the jaw pivot joint of the jaw-type tool, and may be partia... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350393 | Hand tool for wires A hand tool includes two levers pivotally coupled together at a middle portion with an axle, and each having a handle end for being held by users, and a carrier end having a channel formed between two plates, a bar is engaged into the channel and secured between the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7228770 | Pliers Pliers for installing a bushing within a drive selector linkage assembly of an automobile. The pliers include a first arm having a first handle portion and a holder portion. The holder portion is configured to independently hold a bushing to be installed within a dr... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216523 | Pair of pressing jaws for hydraulic or electric pressing tools, and insulating covering for a pressing jaw The invention relates to a pair of pressing jaws for hydraulic or electric pressing tools for pressing fittings onto pipes or for the press connection of electric cables, the two pressing jaws being disposed for rotation about a common axis and each pressing jaw for... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7204175 | Hand tool with replaceable and rotatable function head A hand tool includes a handle having a connection end which includes a receiving recess defined axially therein. A function head has an insertion which is removably inserted into the receiving recess and rotatable about a longitudinal axis of the connection end. A p... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7171877 | Compression tool A compression tool enables efficient handling, compression, and installation of a compressible component. The compression tool includes a first handle having a proximal end and a working end, wherein the working end has a first engaging member. The tool further incl... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7162758 | Multipurpose gripping tool A multipurpose tool for gripping an object and determining an orientation of a surface comprises a first arm with a jaw at one end and a grip at an opposite end and a second arm pivotally connected to the first arm about a pivot point. The second arm also has a jaw ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7156004 | Adjustable wrench for removal of vehicle oil filters An adjustable wrench for gripping and rotation of a generally cylindrical canister, such as an oil filter canister, includes handles which are pivotally connected to each other for rotation about a first axis. Each handle is also connected by an articulatable joint ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7143671 | Lever-wrench pliers Disclosed is a lever-wrench pliers, which includes a fixed jaw tip that define a mouth and has three clamping faces around the mouth, and a movable jaw that has a jaw tip with a toothed clamping face facing the middle one of the three clamping faces of the fixed jaw... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140279 | Dual-headed pliers and method of manufacture Pliers having, for example, needle-nose and blunt-nose heads are manipulated using handles connected to pivot and move between a needle-nose head, grip-ready, position and a blunt-nose head, grip-ready, position. Each handle has a stop member having two faces. One f... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7114279 | Fishhook barb crimping tool A tool for crimping the barb defined by a conventional fishhook is disclosed. The tool includes a pair of forceps on which is carried a barb crimping element. The tool is provided for modifying a conventional fishhook to allow a fisherman to catch fish in a catch-an... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7104166 | Multi-purpose locking plier A clamping device utilizing the mechanism of conventional vise-grip locking pliers comprises an extendable fixed arm and an extendable movable arm, both fitted with threaded holes at one end to attach a wide variety of clamping jaws and accessories. The device is ca... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100474 | Tool for adjusting rimless eyewear A tool (10) for facilitating the adjustment of rimless eyewear (100) includes two pivotaby connected arms (12, 14) having distal and proximal ends (16, 18). The distal ends (16, 18) of the arms (12, 14) each has a gripping p... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7077036 | Timing gear pliers A set of pliers that have a plurality of pins on the forward parts of the plier arms and removable blocks which have apertures that can be placed on selected ones of the pins. The blocks have teeth that can engage the teeth on a timing gear. ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7055413 | Pair of pliers for snap rings A pair of pliers is provided for snap rings. The pair of pliers includes two handles pivotally connected with each other, a spring compressed between the handles and two jaws detachably installed on the handles. Each jaw includes a first operative portion, a first t... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7032479 | Pliers for E-shaped snap rings A pair of pliers is disclosed for E-shaped snap rings. The pair of pliers includes two handles and two jaws. The handles are pivotally connected with each other. Each of the handles includes a first end and a second end so that the first ends of the handles are open... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6964099 | Gardening shears having two pruning effects A pair of gardening shears include a blade assembly including two blades, and a handle assembly pivotally mounted on the blade assembly and including a first handle and a second handle. Thus, the gardening shears have two blades each having two cutting portions havi... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6944986 | Bait clipper A clipper for cutting and severing a portion of bait material preventing direct contact of a user with the former. The two elongated pivotally mounted members include cutting assemblies ends that cooperate to come towards each other in a substantially parallel fashi... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6941846 | Pliers A pair of pliers include two pivot members pivotally connected with each other. Each of the two pivot members has an end formed with a handle including an upper auxiliary body and a lower auxiliary body to enhance a hand-held area of the handle, thereby facilitating... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6840768 | Dental device A dental device for removing an onlay or crown from a patient's tooth. The device includes pliers-type handles for operating a corresponding pair of tips. The tips are equipped with grips adapted for holding an onlay or crown therebetween. The grip edges have a numb... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6748830 | Threaded gripping bar pliers insert A pliers having a replaceable gripping member for pliers jaws in the form of a threaded cylinder received in a threaded bore with part of the threaded cylinder extending out of the jaw in which it is mounted to provide a gripping surface formed of a segment of the t... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6732617 | Replaceable tool tip A replaceable tip for a tool. A locking pin is disposed on a transverse opening in the end of the tool. A sleeve having a cammed surface formed interiorly is disposed over the end of the tool with the ends of the locking pin contacting the cammed surface. The replac... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6721983 | Multi-function tool with lever latch A multi-function tool includes two channel-shaped handles having a first side wall and a second side wall forming a channel therebetween. An interlocking mechanism includes a first plate extending from the first side wall, and a second plate extending from the secon... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6708359 | Multi-purpose fishermen's pliers A pair of fishermen's pliers having two lever arms pivotably joined by a pivot and wherein the arms further include nose sections that extend outwardly from the pivot. A pair of gripping jaws are located at the distal end of the nose sections and first and second cu... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6707007 | Electrically heated soldering pliers with removably attachable jaw portions A soldering tool for holding wires together such that solder may be applied. The soldering tool includes a pliers comprising a pair of elongated members pivotally coupled together and each having a first end and a second end. Proximal portions of the elongate member... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6655407 | Refrigerant charging tool A refrigerant charging tool. In a described embodiment, a refrigerant charging tool has two separately formed handles pivotably attached to each other. One of the handles has a container piercing member mounted thereon. Interchangeable spacers are configu... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6647835 | Pliers with replaceable jaws A scissors pair of pliers where the pair of jaws of the pliers are to be replaceable with a different pair of jaws.... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6643877 | Tool set A tool set having a screwdriver handle with a chuck for insertion and latched mounting of screwing-tool inserts provided with standard polygonal shank segments, and having screwing-tool inserts, which are insertable into the chuck and are provided with th... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6551316 | Selective compression and distraction instrument A selective compression and distraction instrument useful in manipulating bone, such as a person's spine during surgery. There are two handle sections and one jaw section. One handle section produces a compression action and the other produces a distracti... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6477925 | Pliers A pair of pliers has a pair of jaw support frames engaging with each other, and two jaw blocks. Each jaw block has a mount having at least a round hole, a ball, a spring, and a threaded disk. The ball, the spring and the threaded disk are inserted in the ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6443515 | Holding wrench A holding wrench includes a body having a first arm plate having a first end and a second end, and a second arm plate having a first end pivoted on the mediate portion of the first arm plate. A first holding assembly includes two first holding members eac... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6389937 | Universal grip pliers A pair of universal grip pliers includes a first shank body and a second shank body joined together by a pivot member and having two handles each respectively fixed by fastening members at the lower portions, a spring disposed therein for oppositely stret... | 05/21/2002 |
