Powered hand tool for use in household cleaning operations

Claim 1

A powered hand tool particularly suited for use in cleaning household utensils, such as cooking pots and the like, comprising: a water-tight housing of an elongated configuration having a handle defined therein and extended in parallelism with the longitudinal axis of the housing; an electrically energizable AC motor mounted in the housing having a rotary output shaft, and means including a lead for electrically connecting the motor to an external source of AC electrical energy; means defining in said housing a pair of wells mutually spaced 90° apart relative to the longitudinal axis of said housing; means including a pair of sockets and a pair of perpendicularly related drive shafts supporting said sockets for rotation within said pair of wells about a pair of normally related axes, the socket of said pair being characterized by a key-way extended axially thereof; means for imparting continuous unidirectional rotation to each shaft of said pair of shafts including a speed-reduction gear train interconnecting said shafts with said motor; and a plurality of polishing wheels, each wheel having an axially projected shaft characterized by a key integrally related therewith and projected radially therefrom adapted to be received by a key-way defined in each socket of said pair, whereby said polishing wheels are interchangeably related to said sockets.