Patent ID: 8020472

Claim:
A nut capturing socket assembly comprising: a socket having a non-circular shaped interior opening and a circular cylindrical outer surface area with a first, outer diameter, an inner sleeve having a circular cylindrical opening at one end of the sleeve with a second, inner diameter sized to slidingly receive the circular cylindrical outer surface area of the socket and a non-circular shaped opening at an opposite end of the sleeve of substantially the same size and configuration as the non-circular shaped interior opening of the socket, the inner sleeve having an outer surface, a first abutment element fixed relative to the socket, a second abutment element fixed relative to the inner sleeve, an elastic element positioned between the first and second abutment elements, and an outer sleeve surrounding at least a portion of the inner sleeve in the region of the elastic element and having an inner surface sized to interferingly engage with a portion of the inner sleeve outer surface.