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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2000
Edward T. Prell, Chicago, IL (US);
Wolfgang Hirschburger, Wilmette, IL (US);
Allen M. Oles, Chicago, IL (US);
S-B Power Tool Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A right angle attachment configured to be attached to a small electrically powered rotary hand tool of the type that is used in woodworking, hobby work and other work. Being small, lightweight, relatively vibration free and quiet in operation, the attachment is easily attached to a hand tool in a very short amount of time without the use of any special tools. The attachment has a flexible input shaft and an output shaft that are oriented at an angular orientation, such as approximately 90 degrees relative to one another so that the flexible shaft compensates for misalignment between the input shaft and the output shaft of the tool. In operation, the attachment is easily attached to the hand tool by merely removing the chuck that is a part of the original hand tool and attaching the chuck to the attachment output shaft, threadably engaging a driver nut on the rotary tool output shaft, engaging a mounting coupling assembly onto a threaded end of the rotary tool case, and fitting the attachment to the hand tool by merely sliding it into engagement and tightening the coupling assembly by hand.