US1509165A - Illuminated tool holder - Google Patents

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Sept. 23 1924. 1,509J65 A. A. MONTERO ILLUMINATED TOOL HOLDER,

Filed Oct. 9. 1923 /7 Ii; M I

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Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

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UNITED STATES ALBERT A. MONTERO, 0F SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURL ASSIGNOR TO GASTON IVI.

SERRANO, OF ST.

LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ILLUMINATED TOOL HOLDER.

Application filed October 9, `1923. Serial No. 667,519.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. MONTERO, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Greene and State ofl Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Illuminated Tool Holders, of which the following is a specification.

In carryingl out the present invention, it is my purpose to provide a tool holder for benches and the like that embodies a source of illumination, preferably a Hash-light, for facilitating the placing and removal of said bolts and nuts in dark places.

The primary object of the invention is to provide an illuminated toolholder, wherein dierent forms of holders per se, may be employed for permitting the device to be used in conjunction with varying types of tools, and wherein the source ofillumination may be switched on and 0E in a novel, simple and `expeditious manner by the operator.

A still further object is to provide such a device that is extremely simple of construction, and that may be manufactured and marketed at small cost, and one that will embrace at the same time the desired features of efficiency and durability.

The nature and advantages of the invention will be better understood when the following detailed description vis read in connection with the accompanying drawing, the invention residing in the construction, com.- bination, and arrangement of parts as claimed.

In the drawing forming part of this application, like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views, and wherein:

Figure 1 is a sideelevation of my im proved holder. V

Figure 2 is a longitudinal cross section thereof.

Figure 3 is an elevation of the underside of the holder element per se, and

Figure 4 is a fragmentary detail cross4 section of one end of a modified form of holder.

First, having reference to Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, my device includes a handle 5 of relatively elongated cylindrical shape, o en at one end, and internally screw threades as at 6. Adapted for screw threaded engagement within said screw threaded end of the cylindrical handle is the screw threaded hollow extension 7 of a tool holder element designated generally 8. This eXtension 7 is of lesser cross section area than the said tool holder for providing a shoulder 9,

that is adapted to bring up against the end of the handle 5 for obvious purposes, as more clearly shown in Figures 1' and 2. This said holder 8 is in the form of atube section having a cut-out portion 10 upon its underside, and formed with a cross strip 11 at its 65 front end for providing a socket 12 for the vreception of the flat-like handles of'wrenches or other tools.

The cylindrical handle 5 is adapted to receive a dry cell battery 13 formed at its 70 front end with the usual contact 14. In engagement with this contact is the usual contact 15 of an electric lamp (not shown) that is carried by the usual form of conical shell 16. This conical shell 16 carries a 75 bulls-eye lens 17, and has close contact at this. end with a concaved shoulder' 18 formed within said tool holder 8. The battery 13 together with the projector Jformed by the elements 16 and 17 is maintained in 80 the osition shown in Figure 2 by an eX- panslon spring 19 between the opposite end of the battery, and one end of'a switch button 20, that has lateral movement within an opening 21 at the closed end of the cy- 85 lindrical handle 5. The opposite ends of this button 20 are insulated from the closed end of the member 5, through the medium of non-conductin disks 22.

In actual practice, the end of the wrench 21 in the closed end of the Acylindrical han- 95 dle 5, thereby completing the circuit to the bulb within the shell 16, whereby the bolt, nut or other article being operated upon, will be fully illuminated.

In the modification, Figure 4, the cylindrical handle 5 is open at' its end opposite from the end that carries the tool holder element, and is internally screw threaded. Positioned within this end of the handle 5 is a cap 23 that is formed with an opening 105 24, through which extends the shank of a switch button 25. Between the inner end of this button and the battery 13 is an expansion spring 19', and' between the opposite ends of said button and the cap 23 are 110 insulating disks 26. In this instance, it will be at once understood that the battery 13 may be removed without necessarily removing the tool holder carried by the opposite end of the handle 5.

It is of course to be understood that different forms of holder elements per se, may be employed in conjunction with my device, and in view ofthe above description when considered with the accompanying drawing, it will at once be apparent to those skilled in the art the numerous advantages of an article of Vthis character, and even though I have herein set forth the practical embodiment of -the invention, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be vmade therein, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

HavingA thus describedV my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: v

1. An illuminated tool holder comprising a cylindrical hollow handle, -open and internally screw threaded at its outer end, -a

tool' holding device having a substantially semi-circular socketed extension disposed in lalignment with said handle, said device being provided on 'its inner end with a reduced screw threaded nipple` tapped, into .the threaded end of the handle, that portion joining the nipple ,with the extension being provided with an 'internal shoulder adapted to be engaged-by a liash light bulb and having an opening therein of thesize to permit simultaneous 4projection of light rays through and beneath said extension.

2. In an illuminated tool holder, 'a body including a substantially semi-'circular socketed extension, the underside oit which is fiat faced, said body being provided on its inner end with a reduced screw threaded nipple at the inner end ofi-which is internal and external shoulders, the wall of that portion of the body joining the extension and nipple being gradually increased vin width from the extension to the nipple, said intermediate portion being hollow andthe front wall thereof-being openedto make for si'- multaneouspassage if light rays which are adapted to be projected therethrough.

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