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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7069816 | Motor-driven screw driver The invention relates to a motor-driven screw driver comprising a drive motor to which a first torque limiter is assigned and a head (1) which presents the screw-driving tool or a recess for a screw-driving tool. A ratchet mechanism (6) and a torque li... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6971286 | Ratcheting wrench with quick tightening/loosening functions and fine adjusting functions A ratcheting wrench includes a handle, a head extending from an end of the handle and having a hole communicated with a compartment in the end of the handle, a drive member rotatably mounted in the hole of the head, and a ratcheting mechanism. The drive member inclu... | 12/06/2005 |
| 5446774 | Spud finger gauge A tool for checking the required spacing between adjacent fingers of the spud in a control rod drive. The tool is a GO-NO-GO gauge with tight tolerance. The spud finger gauge has two circular cylindrical pins of different diameter. One pin (i.e., the GO p... | 08/29/1995 |
| 4823636 | Wrenchable C-clamp A wrenchable C-clamp is formed with a hexagonal portion coaxial with a clamping screw and sized to fit standard open end and box wrenches. A user can apply a wrench to the wrenchable portion to hold the C-clamp in a desired position while a clamping screw... | 04/25/1989 |
| 4649727 | Rotary driver and swaging tool Disclosed is a rotatably drivable tool for mechanically joining together threaded nut and bolt components of a fastener assembly to maintain together the assembly and workpieces joined thereby, the tool having a socket portion for receiving the nut of the... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4562389 | Automatic screwdriver or torquing tool control system To permit reliable turn-OFF of the motor when the torque of the motor is sufficient to provide for reliable seating of a screw or nut being driven thereby, start conditions of the motor are sensed, either in form of low-current condition or high power fac... | 12/31/1985 |
| 4392264 | Combination tool for removing and replacing a nut A combination tool comprises an elongated lever having a handle at one end, two divergent fingers at the other end, and an aperture between the two ends adapted for engagement with a nut. One of the fingers includes a distal end and claw in spaced relatio... | 07/12/1983 |
| 4383787 | Free spinning laminated nut with automatic lock A laminated nut composed of laminations of tapped conical spring washer segments in which at least one of the segments has a different load-deflection ratio than another segment, thereby to provide for more uniform loading of the threads on the laminated ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4166313 | Nuclear fuel element nut retainer cup tool A typical embodiment has an end fitting for a nuclear reactor fuel element that is joined to the control rod guide tubes by means of a nut plate assembly. The nut plate assembly has an array of nuts, each engaging the respective threaded end of the contro... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4084460 | Hand held nut running and crimping power tool An air powered hand tool having combined therein nut running and crimping mechanism in which a common cam member is motor rotated to effect run down of a work nut about a stud and is piston driven to effect crimping of the nut in locking relation to the s... | 04/18/1978 |
