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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2020
Snap-on Incorporated, Kenosha, WI (US);
William Berry Dance, Murphy, NC (US);
Matthew D. Patterson, Knoxville, TN (US);
Snap-on Incorporated, Kenosha, WI (US);
Abstract
A direction selector mechanism for a hand-held power tool that includes internal linkages that move an actuation point of a direction selection from above the trigger (as in previous tools) to a top of the tool. For example, the control for the direction selector mechanism includes a direction toggle positioned on a top of the tool, and that is movable by a user to select either of first and second rotational directions (e.g. clockwise and counter-clockwise). This position/location allows the user to select or change between the first and second rotational directions with a user's thumb for both direction changes, in either hand ambidextrously, and places the trigger actuation higher up in the tool, closer to the axis of output of the tool.