Go between ratchet-aid
CA 2220066 A1 · Owner: Hofer, Paul · Inventors: Gaucher, Dan; Hofer, Paul
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
The "Go Between Ratchet Aid" is a leverage enhancement tool designed to accommodate and attach to existing ratchet wrenches. The Go Between Ratchet consists, of one female end to accommodate existing ratchets and one male end to accommodate, sockets. The Go Between Ratchet will serve two very distinct purposes the , first being, a "strong arm" effect equal to the length of the ratchet aid plus the ratchet to which it is, attached. The second purpose would be that the Go Between Ratchet is capable of creating, an "Elbow Effect" in that the initial ratchet can be attached to the "Go Between" at any, degree of angle.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed January 6, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended January 6, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 6, 2020.
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