Patent ID: 6792835
Filing Date: 2004-09-21
Classification: B25B,B25F

Abstract:
A multi-purpose tool assembly comprising:a multi-purpose tool including an elongated body, a cavity in the body containing individual implements, a movable plier element pivotally attached to the body including a rearward extending movable handle and a forward extending movable jaw, a fixed jaw extending forward from the body, the fixed jaw opposed to the movable jaw, the movable jaw having a movable inside jaw face, the fixed jaw having a fixed inside jaw face, each inside jaw face having respective recesses, the jaws including an open position where the movable inside jaw face is spaced apart from the fixed inside jaw face, the jaws further including a closed position where the movable inside jaw face is immediately adjacent to the fixed inside jaw face, the closed position including an elongated enclosed opening in the jaws formed by the respective recesses in the jaw faces; an adaptor including a polygonal-sectioned driving end and a further driven section of narrow, elongated sectional shape, the driven section positioned within the enclosed elongated opening of the jaws in the closed position of the jaws, a length of the narrow elongated sectional shape being parallel and coincident with the respective closed inside jaw faces; the adaptor including an upper and a lower flange, the lower flange being positioned between the driving end and the driven section, the upper flange positioned on an opposite end of the driven section from the lower flange, the closed plier jaws positioned between the respective upper and lower flanges; and the adaptor being fully confined in an axial direction by the flanges of the adaptor about the plier jaws in the closed position, the adaptor further being fully confined radially in the plier jaw closed position by the elongated enclosed opening surrounding the driven section, the adaptor being unconfined by the plier jaws in the jaw open position.