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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2000
G. Lyle Habermehl, Gallatin, TN (US);
Other;
Abstract
A screwdriver nosepiece comprising an open-sided tubular member having a wall circumferentially about a central passageway extending therethrough and open at both ends, the passageway including: a cylindrical guideway extending about an axis and adapted to receive a screw coaxially therein for rotation and driving of the screw axially through the guideway by a driver shaft, and a screw catch groove disposed axially along the guideway cut into the wall extending radially outwardly from the guideway and opening radially inwardly into the guideway to define a catch surface on the wall within the catch groove, a slotway axially along the guideway extending radially outwardly from the guideway entirely through the wall and of sufficient circumferential extent to permit entry of a screw radially into the guideway while maintaining the screw substantially parallel the axis, the catch groove located on the wall circumferentially proximate the slotway with the catch surface directed away from the slotway.