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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
May. 31, 2006
Glen V. Steinbrunner, Bel Air, MD (US);
Andrzej R. Wojcicki, Baltimore, MD (US);
James R. Niblett, Columbia, MD (US);
Glen V. Steinbrunner, Bel Air, MD (US);
Andrzej R. Wojcicki, Baltimore, MD (US);
James R. Niblett, Columbia, MD (US);
Black & Decker Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Abstract
A tool that includes a housing, a motor assembly, a hook structure and a detent. The motor assembly has an output member and is at least partially housed in the housing. The detent has a first portion, which is engaged to the housing, and a second portion that is engaged to the hook structure. The first and second portions cooperate in an engaged condition to hold the hook structure in a selected rotational position relative to the housing. The first and second portions being disengagable to permit rotational movement of the hook structure relative to the housing. The hook structure can include a friction enhancing portion that is employed to provide better gripping performance.