US Patent: 6,079,298
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| Ergonomic handle and driver incorporating same
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Patentees:
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| Nancy C. Rittmann Gasperi (exact or similar names) - Racine, WI |
| Steven R. Wente (exact or similar names) - Kenosha, WI |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Mar. 18, 1998 |
| Granted: |
Jun. 27, 2000 |
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Description: |
| Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson - patent attorneys
Abstract
A palm driver has a rotatable drive member and an ergonomic handle body connected to the drive member through a ratchet mechanism and covered by a cushioning grip. The handle body is asymmetrically curved and is substantially continuously convex along portions engageable in use with the user's hand, having a generally flattened top surface opposite the drive member and receivable in the user's palm, and a peripheral side surface which has a plan outline which is continuously convex and has a generally flattened heel portion and an opposed, much smaller radius finger portion, respectively engageable with the heel and fingers of the user's hand in use.
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