Patent ID: 6557212
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: B25G,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:a handle; a hand tool having a working part; a fastening base positioned at one end of said handle, said fastening base having a receiving slot opening at said one end, said fastening base having a pivoting hole and a through hole opposite in location to said pivoting hole, said through hole being smaller in diameter than said pivoting hole; a fastening end positioned at one end of said hand tool, said fastening end having a retaining hole aligned with said pivoting hole of said fastening base, said retaining hole being of keyhole shape and having an extending portion opening to an end of said fastening end and an inner portion communicating with said extending portion and positioned away from said end of said fastening end of said hand tool, said inner portion having a diameter dimension greater than a width dimension of said extending portion; and a fastening device comprising a rotary bolt and a screw, said rotary bolt having a threaded hole at one end thereof, said threaded hole engaged with said screw, said rotary bolt having a locating shank with two planar surfaces opposite in location to each other, said two planar surfaces being in spaced parallel planar relationship to each other, said shank having a diameter dimension across said planar surfaces smaller than a diameter dimension of said shank away from said planar surfaces, said fastening end of said hand tool being detachably fastened to said fastening base of said handle such that said fastening end is fitted into said receiving slot, said locating shank being received in said inner portion of said retaining hole, said locating shank extending through said pivoting hole, said rotary bolt being rotatable between a first position in which said two planar surfaces are not aligned with two side walls of said extending portion of said retaining hole such that said fastening end is fixedly retained in said receiving slot and a second position in which said two planar surfaces are aligned with said two side walls of said extending portion of said retaining hole such that said fastening end can be slidably separated from said receiving slot.