Patent ID: 8490517
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: B25B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of driving a target nut on a target bolt, comprising providing a motorized socket drive tool with a drive head portion and an open drive socket located in the drive head portion, providing a support assembly coupled with the motorized socket drive tool for holding a cylinder, the cylinder being vertically adjustable within the support assembly relative the open drive socket, providing a non-rotatable torque arrest member in the cylinder outwardly biased toward an open end of the cylinder by a spring loaded biasing portion held within the cylinder and configured for travel along a torque arrest path, adjusting the height of the cylinder so as to be in an operative position adjacent a first side of the open drive socket, directing the motorized socket drive tool to pass a second side of the open socket over the target nut, directing the non-rotatable torque arrest member to engage a free end of the target bolt, and activating the motorized socket drive tool to drive the target nut, while the target bolt passes from the second side of the open socket through the open socket and to the first side thereof and while the non-rotatable torque arrest member correspondingly travels along the torque arrest path compressing the spring-loaded biasing portion; and releasing the open socket and torque arrest member respectively from the target nut and target bolt after the target nut reaches a predetermined destination on the target bolt.