Driver bit holding strap or band of one piece rubber or soft plastic construction (bit band)
CA 2076227 A1 · Owner: Kasanda, Paul J. · Inventors: Kasanda, Paul J.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A holding device designed specifically to hold screw driving bits for drills andother tools. As these driver bits are almost exclusively of a 1/4 inch diameter round or hexagonal shaft construction, this holder is designed to hold only these types of bits. The advantage of developing a holder that can accommodate only the most common driver bit format is that it allows the holder to be manufactured of a one-piece construction. This one piece construction provides the following combination of benefits never before available:, - Assembly free mass production capabilities; - Use of one of five low cost manufacturing methods that can produce the product from rubber or plastic, in one step. …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 17, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 17, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 17, 2014.
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