Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 10
Claim 1
Independent Claim
249 words
A tool for installation of a toggle-screw anchor of the type including an anchor sleeve having flanged and threaded ends with an intermediate longitudinally slotted section which is radially expanded upon axial movement of the threaded end toward the flanged end; said tool comprising an elongated flat body of strip material of tapered width having a handle at its narrow end projecting transversely from one side of said body and a passage through the middle of its wide end; and an actuating screw having a head and at least one spacer washer adjacent to said head; said screw having a shank extending through said washer and said passage and projecting transversely from the other side of said body for screwing thereonto an anchor sleeve with its flanged end snugly engaged with said other side of said body while said washer is snugly engaged between said head and said one side of said body whereby said projecting shank and anchor sleeve thereon may be inserted into a hole in a wall or the like with said other side of said body engaged with the front side of the wall to retain said screw, washer, and anchor sleeve perpendicular to the wall; said screw, upon turning thereof with respect to the anchor sleeve by torque applied on said head while said body is held against the wall and against turning by said handle, being operative to expand the anchor sleeve to grip the rear side of the wall around the hole.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
249 words
A tool for installation of a toggle-screw anchor of the type including an anchor sleeve having flanged and threaded ends with an intermediate longitudinally slotted section which is radially expanded upon axial movement of the threaded end toward the flanged end; said tool comprising an elongated flat body of strip material of tapered width having a handle at its narrow end projecting transversely from one side of said body and a passage through the middle of its wide end; and an actuating screw having a head and at least one spacer washer adjacent to said head; said screw having a shank extending through said washer and said passage and projecting transversely from the other side of said body for screwing thereonto an anchor sleeve with its flanged end snugly engaged with said other side of said body while said washer is snugly engaged between said head and said one side of said body whereby said projecting shank and anchor sleeve thereon may be inserted into a hole in a wall or the like with said other side of said body engaged with the front side of the wall to retain said screw, washer, and anchor sleeve perpendicular to the wall; said screw, upon turning thereof with respect to the anchor sleeve by torque applied on said head while said body is held against the wall and against turning by said handle, being operative to expand the anchor sleeve to grip the rear side of the wall around the hole.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
26 words
The tool of claim 1 wherein said wide end is rounded and is of width greater than the diameter of the flange of the anchor sleeve.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
28 words
The tool of claim 1 wherein said spacer washer is of predetermined thickness to predeterminedly shorten the projection of said screw from said other side of said body.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
34 words
The tool of claim 1 wherein said head has wrench engaging flats; and wherein said spacer washer is of thickness at least as great as the transverse projection of said handle from said body.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
102 words
The tool of claim 1 wherein said passage is of diameter large enough to accommodate the largest one of a plurality of actuating screws for different sizes of anchor sleeves but is of smaller diameter than the diameter of the flange of the smallest one of said different size anchor sleeves; wherein the inside diameter of said spacer washer is substantially the same as the diameter of said passage; and wherein each screw has another washer thereon of inside diameter substantially the same as the diameter of said shank and of outside diameter greater than the inside diameter of said spacer washer.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
23 words
The tool of claim 5 wherein each actuating screw has a non-circular cross-section head of size commensurate with the size of said screw.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
33 words
The tool of claim 6 wherein an elongated wrench of strip material has longitudinally spaced apart openings therethrough which are complemental with the respective non-circular cross-section heads of said different size actuating screws.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
18 words
The tool of claim 7 wherein two of such wrench openings are adjacent the ends of said wrench.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
32 words
The tool of claim 8 wherein said wrench is of length such that the end thereof remote from an opening engaged with a head of an actuating screw radially clears said handle.