Patent ID: 7878093

Claim:
A rotator socket suitable for the installation of a cup hook, the cup hook characterized by a shank having a threaded portion and a round hook portion with a semispherical flange mounted orthogonal on the shank where the hook has a wideness “w” a longitudinal distance “d” from the mounting position of the semi-spherical flange, comprised of: a) a shank having an axis; b) a body having a rotational axis, a proximal end, a distal end, a periphery and a region for protrusion with a width that is less than “w” and occupying a distance “d” from the distal end and said body is mounted by way of its proximal end to the shank with the rotational axis of the body and the axis of the shank being collinear, wherein the region for protrusion defines: i) a first region extending from the distal end toward the proximal end a distance less than “d” and ii) a second region extending from the first region to define the reminder of said occupying distance “d”; c) a slot in the body that depends from the distal end having a rotational axis collinear with the rotational axis of the body that extends through the periphery at least in the region for protrusion along the width so as to form first and second periphery openings and sized to accommodate the insertion of the rounded hook portion of a cup hook; d) a depression in the body that depends from the distal end having a center that is collinear with the rotational axis of the body that penetrates the slot, forms annular rim segments in the distal end and is sized and shaped to accommodate at least a portion of the semi-spherical flange of the cup hook; e) at least one members provided exclusively about the periphery in the second region that pass over the first and second periphery openings where at least one member is a resilient member which delivers an urging force that restrains a cup hook inserted into the slot from longitudinal motion with a gripping strength that is large enough to retain the cup hook in the slot against the force of gravity and a gripping strength that is small enough that the cup hook slides within the slot after installation of the cup hook into a surface; and f) a band being provided on at least a portion of said at least one member and on a portion of the periphery so as to retain said at least one member on the periphery.