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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2015
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Ana-Maria Roberts, Idstein, DE;
Andreas Friedrich, Limburg, DE;
Black & Decker Inc., New Britain, CT (US);
Abstract
A power tool includes a housing; a handle having two ends, each being moveably mounted to the housing associated mountings; and a biasing mechanism connected between the housing and the handle; wherein at least one of the mountings comprises: a first part mounted on the housing and a second part mounted on the one end of the handle, one part comprising a passageway, the other comprising a rod, having a longitudinal axis, which is located in and capable of being axially slid within the passageway, enabling the end of the handle to move towards or away from the housing; at least part of the wall of the passageway in a lengthwise direction of the passageway comprises a curved convex support surface capable of engaging the side of the rod to enable the rod to pivot within the passageway about an axis which is perpendicular to the axis of the rod.