Rotating tool
CA 2082973 A1 · Owner: Gelbart, William Z. · Inventors: Gelbart, William Z.; Shemesh, Josef
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A hand tool for treating the outside surface of a cylindrical component such as a pipe or tube grips the outside surface and can be rotated by inserting a finger into a finger engagement and spinning the tool about the component. Plumbers and the like clean the outside surface of pipes by using abrasive cloth and the hand, tool provides a tool for treating the surface with less effort. The hand tool has a lower body with a pivot adjacent one end and a treatment surface adjacent the other end, the lower body has a finger engagement adjacent the one end to rotate the tool about the component. A top body has a spring to join the lower body allowing the top body to pivot, and has a guide …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 16, 1992. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 16, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 16, 2014.
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