Patent ID: 6918477

Claim:
A direction switch for a hand tool for switching an operative direction of a gear ring of the hand tool having a first side and a second side, the direction switch comprising: a shaft; a first lever and a second lever extending from the shaft and spaced apart from one another to straddle over the first side and the second side of hand tool, wherein the shaft includes: a first control member, having a first pivot and the first lever, the first pivot being pivotally mounted to the first side of the hand tool; a second control member, having a second pivot and the second lever, the second pivot being pivotally mounted to the second side of the hand tool; a coupling means provided between the first and second control members for operatively connecting the first control member to the second control member to allow simultaneous actuation of the first and second control members; and the first pivot and the second pivot are each formed with a halved semicircular recess jointly constructing a radial bore.