Patent ID: 6043458
Filing Date: 2000-03-28
Classification: H01L,H05K

Abstract:
A rotatable hand held pickup tool for small parts comprising:a body having a central longitudinal axis along its forward portion and containing an air chamber and having an input air port connected to its rearward portion;a forward nozzle portion carried by the forward portion of said body and having a freedom of rotation about said axis and includinga finger operable wheel portion to effect such rotatation anda forwardly extending coupler shank portion having a first, outer diameter and a second, inner diameter;a rigid tubular member carried by siad forward portion of said body and extending forwardly therefrom beyond said nozzle portion and having a third, outer diameter less than said second diameter:a pneumatic pickup head having a reduced diameter coupler shank portion extending rearwardly therefrom and having an inner diameter slightly greater than said third diameter,said coupler shank being disposed concentrically over and supported by the forward end of said tubular member with freedom of rotation thereabout;a length of deformable elastomeric tubing having a non-deformed inner diameter greater than said third diameter and less than each of said first and second diameters and having a length to extend over the outer surfaces of said coupler shank portions of said pickup head and said nozzle portion whereby when disposed thereover, said nozzle portion and pickup head are both longitudinally connected and rotationally coupled together; anda finger operated valve means carried by said body, disposed contiguously to said finger operable wheel portion and selectively coupling, pneumatically, said air chamber and tubular member.