Modular packaging and holder for tool bits
CA 2076223 C · Owner: Suter, Robert · Inventors: Mckenzie, Archibald M.; Mckenzie, Paul Donald; Suter, Robert
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The present invention discloses a modular bit holder which stores and displays a single bit and can be, linked with other such bit holders to form a variable set. A bit is inserted in one end of the holder and is held in, place by a flange. To remove the bit a second bit is, forced into the holder displacing the first bit to a, holding position from which it can be removed. Each holder has means along either side of it to removably attach it in side-by-side fashion to another similar holder.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed August 14, 1992 and granted July 31, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 14, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 14, 2014.
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