Patent ID: 8677864

Claim:
A cam actuated adjustable socket comprising, a socket sleeve being cylindrically shaped having a top and bottom portion, a horizontally and circumferentially disposed collar pin slot, a socket body being a solid cylinder shape having a top and bottom surface, a circumference, disposed in the top portion of the socket sleeve, at least two arch shaped cam profiles having surfaces formed on the inside circumference of the bottom portion of the socket sleeve, both having identical profiles and disposed mirrored with the bottom of the arch intersecting along a diameter of the sleeve, the cam profiles each further having a top side surface defining the top of the bottom portion of the sleeve and the top surface is disposed below the socket body bottom surface, a jaw guide being a solid cylinder shape having a top and a bottom surface, a circumference with a collar pin receiving bore and a jaw guide slot across the diameter in the bottom surface, and being disposed annularly with the socket sleeve with the bottom contacting the top side surfaces of the cam profiles, a plurality of jaws disposed in the jaw guide slot of the jaw guide each having a cam follower, a slider head, and V-shaped grip being disposed in the jaw guide slot with V-shaped grips facing each other, and with the cam followers arranged to interact with the cam profile surfaces of the sleeve, and, a collar being cylindrically shaped disposed around the outer circumference of the sleeve having collar pin bore receiving a collar pin mounted in the jaw guide collar pin receiving bore and disposed through the horizontally and circumferential collar pin slot of the sleeve whereby the position of the cam followers on the cam profile surfaces are responsive to the rotation of the collar around the circumference of the sleeve thereby facilitating V-shaped grips of the jaws to grasp a provided work piece.