Patent ID: 6840140
Filing Date: 2005-01-11
Classification: B25B

Abstract:
1. A marine and aviation tool for rotating externally threaded marine and aviation covers which close ports through decks or other portions of boats, or fuselages or wings and aircraft, wherein the covers include holes laterally spaced from one another for receiving spaced pins on the tool, the tool comprising: a head having a first surface adapted to face the cover when the tool is engaged, a second surface facing away from the cover and displaced from the first surface to provide a selected thickness for the body, and a slot extending transversely through the body; a first pin fixed to the head and extending from the first surface for seating in one hole, a second pin for seating in the other hole and mounted on a slider received in the slot for lateral adjustment with respect to the first pin; a stop for engaging the slider to fix the second pin with respect to the first pin; a square socket extending through the second surface and into the head, the socket adapted to receive a square stud projecting from an extender from a ratchet wrench handle or screw gun drill, and a patch of hook or loop material fixed to the first face of the head and adapted to engage a complementary patch of loop or hook material fixed to the cover, whereby the head is used to rotate the threaded cover with the extender or without the extender when the tool is coupled with the cover axially with the latching patches and is coupled with the cover radially when the pins are in the holes.