Patent ID: 6016726
Filing Date: 2000-01-25
Classification: B25B,B25G

Abstract:
A multi-positionable wrench apparatus comprising a wrench head portion and a wrench handle portion, the wrench head portion providing a nut engaging portion with a blade portion extending therefrom, the blade portion having a blade width, the wrench handle portion providing a tubular end piece having an inside diameter for accepting the blade portion therewithin in snug axial sliding engagement, the tubular end piece further providing a pair of diametrically opposed, open ended slots for accepting the blade width of the blade portion, the tubular end piece still further providing a pair of diametrically opposed closed and elongated slots fixedly positioned at 90.degree. angular rotation with respect to the open ended slots, the blade portion further providing a guide pin extending laterally therefrom for engaging the pair of closed slots when the blade portion is engaged with the tubular end piece, such that the wrench head portion may be positioned with the blade portion inserted within the tubular end piece, with the guide pin at a distal end of the enlongated slots, positioning the nut engaging portion in a first preferred attitude and, alternately, the wrench head portion may be positioned with the guide pin medially located in the elongated slots, thereby enabling rotation of the wrench head portion to a second preferred attitude wherein a notch of a terminal end of the blade portion receives one of the open ended slots for locking engagement therein; the first and the second attitudes being angularly displaced.