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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2021
Jacobs Chuck Manufacturing (Suzhou) Company, Ltd., Suzhou, CN;
Apex Brands, Inc., Apex, NC (US);
Jichun Zhou, Suzhou, CN;
Tingwei Zeng, Suzhou, CN;
APEX BRANDS, INC., Apex, NC (US);
JACOBS CHUCK MANUFACTURING (SUZHOU) COMPANY, LTD., Suzhou, CN;
Abstract
A chuck for use with a power driver having a rotatable drive spindle is provided. The chuck may include a sleeve comprising a sleeve tightening surface that may be configured to engage with a nut tightening surface to tighten a nut when the sleeve is rotated into a tightening position. With the sleeve disposed in a sleeve locked position, a click pawl may be engaged with a click stopping edge of one of the plurality of click teeth to inhibit rotation of the nut in a first rotational direction to loosen the nut. A lock pawl may also be engaged with a lock stopping edge of one of the plurality of lock teeth to inhibit rotation of the sleeve in a second rotational direction due to the inertia in the sleeve that would tend to further tighten the nut.