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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1980
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph Garofalo, South Orange, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
81 62 ;
Abstract
A ratchet wrench which includes a pawl disposed to engage a ratchet gear carrying a drive member formed as a square shank, the pawl being selectively movable by a control rod carried in the midportion of the wrench and terminating close to its handle grasping portion and subject to digital manipulation from a grasping hand there in place. The pawl, as moved by the control rod, may be engaged with the ratchet gear to provide either clockwise or counterclockwise torque on the gear and its drive member or disengaged from the ratchet gear altogether to leave that gear and its drive member in a neutral, free-wheeling condition.