US1760799A - Socket-wrench set - Google Patents

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May 27, 1930. c, E WAKEFIELD ET AL 1,760,799

SOCKET WRENCH 5 ET Filed April 1, 1927 jr'aavzzorzlZ'ere/z'c'e Z Wkfzk/d Jase o ,Jase y Patented May 27, 1930 UNITED STATES meant CLARENCE E. WAKEFIELD, JOSEPH IE. FLEMING, AIND JOSEPH F. OLIVER, OF WORCES- TEE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS T WAKEFIELD ALLPSTEEL WRENCH COMPANY, INC, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS SOCKET-VIRENCH SET Application filed April 1,

The present invention relates to socket wrench sets, comprising a plurality of sockets of graduated sizes and a common handle or shank, which is'provided for use, selectively, with any one of said socketed members. i

Our invention resides in the compact assemblage of such a set in a specially constructed holder or container, the latter being of simple and inexpensive construction, and aoapted to prevent'accidental displacement of the parts of the set while permitting them to be removed, when desired, with the utmost ease.

Further objects of the invention will be apparent from the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a top plan View of the improved holder with the wrench parts assembled therein.

Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the assembly.

Fig. 3 is an end view of the device, as seen from the left in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. l is a transverse sectional view on the line H of Fig. 1.

Like reference characters refer .to v like parts in the different figures.

A socket wrench set of the type referred to provides, as is well known, a plurality of similarly shaped socket members 1, 2, 3, 1, 5 and 6, graduated in size, and each having a nut or bolt-receiving socket, here shown as hexagonal in form, and adapted to fit a given size of nut or bolt, ranging from a large nut or belt, for which the member 1 is provided, to a small nut or bolt, for which the member 6 is provided,intermediate sizes being taken care of by the socket members 2 to 5 inclusive. These socket members are graduated not only as to diameter, but also as to depth, and each provides, in addition to its socketed nutengaging portion, a polygonal opening 7, all of the openings 7 being of the same size and shape, so as to be capable of operative engagement with the similarly shaped handle or shank member 8, common to all of said sockct members. 7

As here shown, the openings 7 are hexag- 1927. Serial No. 180,235.

onal and the handlemember 8 is'of hexagonal section to fit all of said openings 7. Preferably, as shown in Fig. 1, one end of the shank or handle 8 is bent at right angles, as indicated at'9; either end of the handle can be inserted in any of the socket members, depending upon whether the long'portion or the short portion of the handle is to be used as a lever arm.

According to the invention, we provide a shallow tray or holder 10, preferably, made from a single elongated piece of sheet metal, whose longitudinal edges are bent uprto provide parallel side walls 11, 11, and Whose ends are bent up to provide one end wall 12 of substantially the same height as the side walls 11, 11, and another end Wall 13 of greater height. Along the edge of'end wall 12, the material of the tray has an extension which is curled over to form'an eyelet or hinge 14, for a purpose to be hereinafter described. I r i The tray is of a length and width sufficient to receive the bent handle member 8, laid fiatwise therein as shown in Fig. 1, and the remaining area of the bottom of said tray accommodates the socket members 1 to 6 inclusive, when laid in a row with their sides against said bottom and their ends against that wall 11 which is farthest removed from the handle 8. In so disposing the socket members 1 to 6 inclusive, the largest member 1 is placed adjacent the high end wall 13 of the tray, with the sizes of the other socket members gradually decreasing toward theother end of the tray, so that the smallest member 6 is adjacent the short portion 9 of the handle 8. If the socket members are all of the same depth,- the engagement of their ends with the handle 8 will prevent their endwise movement on the tray bottom; otherwise, such endwise shifting or displacement can readily be prevented by striking up from the material of said tray bottom a plurality of suitablylocated tongues or projections 15, 15, each so spaced from the wall 11 of the tray as to snugly hold its corresponding socket member against said wall. Similarly, a

tongue 16, struck up from the bottom of the.

tray, may be advantageouslyused to contact with the sine or" the smallest socket 6, thereby to prevent any rolling of said socket members lengthwise of said tray. 7

A resilient wire 17 is inserted through the eyelet or hinge portion ofend wall 12, and is bent substantially at right angles beyond each end of said hinge portion, so that one section 18 of said wire will overlie the socket members 1 to 6 inclusive, while another shortcontactwith handle 8 ,said portion .19 preferably having'a laterally extending bend 521 at its free end to bear against one of thesides of the handle. In order to more effectively a hold the socket members down and to give the portion 18 a greater contact surface with each of said members, said portion 18may be given the wave form I shown in Fig. 2, involving spaced curved or segmental portions 22, 22, corresponding in number and in curvature to the underlying socket members 1 to 6 inclusive. I

We claim,

1. A tray or container forthe reception on w its bottom of the interchangeable socket members and .the common handle member of a socket wrench set, and a wire hinged to one end wall of said tray and providing two sections overlying the tray bottom, one section for. contact with said socket membersand the other section for contact with said handle member, and a slot in the other end wall of said tray, to provide a latch for the free end of said wire.

. 2; A tray or container for the reception on its bottom of the interchangeable sock-ct members and the common handle member of a socket Wrench set, and a wire hinged to one end wall of said tray and providing two sections overlying the tray bottom, one section for contact with saidsocket members and'the other section forcontact with said handle member.

3. A tray or container for the sidevise reception on its bottom of a row ofinterchangeable socket members of a socket wrench set, and for the flatwise reception on its bottom of the bent-end handle common to all the socket members of said set, said handle extending parallel tosaid row, with its bent end occupying the space between an end wall of said tray and the end socket member of said row, anda retaining wire hinged to said end wall, with one section thereof extending the full length of said tray, in overlying contacting relation to said row of socket members, and with another section thereof in overlying relation to said handle.

4. In an article of the class described, a tray or container for the fiatwise reception on its bottom of a row of interchangeable socket members of a socket wrench set, said tray having a portion of its bottom surface bounded off for such reception, said tray providing also afurther space also bounded off for the flatwise reception on-itsbottom of the bent handle common to all the socket members, sides to said tray constituting the outer boundaries of both of said spaces and ends to said tray constituting the .end boundaries of both of said spaces in one case and of the space for the bent handle in the other case, the bent end of said handle occupying the space between said last named end wall and the end .socket member of said row, and common retaining means for retaining the socket members and the handle in the tray. Dated March 30, 1927. 7 CLARENCE E. WAKEFIELD.

JOSEPH P. FLEMING. JOSEPH E'OLIVER.

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