Patent ID: 7047654

Claim:
A hand tool with spirit level functionality comprising: (a) a plastic molded web having a recess defined by a peripheral wall with a pair of opposite vial supports, each said vial support having a lower lug and an upper lug, said vial supports and said lugs being integrally molded with said peripheral wall; (b) a cylindrical level vial that can be snugly received lengthwise and diameterwise by said lugs; and (c) a pair of annular retainer clips that can be slidingly displaced along said level vial, each said retainer clip having a pair of diametrically opposite notches so as to provide a sliding mounting on a corresponding one of said vial supports, each said upper lug and said lower lug of each of said pair of vial supports terminating in a widened tip, and each notch of said pair of retainer clips having a narrow neck which widens into a horseshoe shaped recess such that a retainer clip can be snap fitted onto a corresponding one of said lugs of said vial supports so as to securely mount said level vial in said web.