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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 1981
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1980
Peter P Pioch, Idstein, DE;
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
An auxiliary handle for a power tool having an elongated housing of the type which is clampingly attachable to the housing of the tool near the forward end thereof. The handle includes a pair of clamping jaws which cooperate with a hand grasp to generate a clamping force which is transmitted to a split collar retained between the jaws which in turn is adapted to receive and clampingly engage a cylindrical barrel portion of the housing. The collar has a convex outer surface which defines a spherical zone, enabling the collar to be retained in a complimentary shaped annular concave recess defined by the jaws, while allowing the jaws and the hand grasp to be moved in any direction along the spherical zone to thereby position the hand grasp angularly in three dimensions relative to the housing.