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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2005
Alan Berry, Fincastle, VA (US);
Jan Carl Denner, Hampstead, MD (US);
Craig A. Schell, Baltimore, MD (US);
Charles L. Bradenbaugh, Iv, York, PA (US);
Ashok S. Baskar, Lutherville, MD (US);
James J. Kenney, Baltimore, MD (US);
Alan Berry, Fincastle, VA (US);
Jan Carl Denner, Hampstead, MD (US);
Craig A. Schell, Baltimore, MD (US);
Charles L. Bradenbaugh, IV, York, PA (US);
Ashok S. Baskar, Lutherville, MD (US);
James J. Kenney, Baltimore, MD (US);
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A hand-held power tool with a housing with a handle arranged along an axis, a trigger disposed in the housing and configured to operate the hand-held power tool, first and second sets of guide tracks coupled to one of the housing and the trigger and first and second sets of guides coupled to the other. The trigger, which includes a contact surface that is configured to be contacted by a finger of a user of the hand-held power tool, is movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The first and second sets of guide tracks guide the first and second sets of guides, respectively, such that movement of the trigger from the extended position to the retracted position causes the contact surface to move in a substantially constant direction having a first directional component and a second directional component, the first directional component being generally perpendicular to the axis of the handle and the second directional component being generally parallel to the axis of the handle.