Stress reducing tool mount
View Patent ↗A plastic tool mount and system with a tool connector head with a back side, nose and distal end of the nose; a shaft guide having a channel is formed within the head open at the distal end of the nose; the channel further having a raised bump section of plastic extending from a wall of the shaft guide into the shaft guide channel; and, wherein the diameter of the shaft guide channel at the location of the raised bump is diminished.
1. A tool mounting system comprising:
a plastic tool connector head with a nose and back side;
a generally square shaft guide with four orthogonal walls and an open distal end formed within said head;
a raised section of a plastic bump extending from a wall of said shaft guide into the shaft guide whereby a portion of the shaft guide near the location of the raised section is diminished;
a tool with a metal square shaft having a free end and said shaft being of a diameter less than said shaft guide but greater than said diminished shaft guide; and,
whereby upon insertion of said free end into the shaft guide a portion of said raised section is removed by the free end, forming a pressure fit between the residual of the plastic bump, shaft guide and shaft.
2. The tool mounting system of claim 1 , further comprising a well in said shaft that catches and retains residual raised section.
3. The tool mounting system of claim 2 , wherein the raised section has a first and a second substantially flat side wall and a substantially flat top.
4. The tool mounting system of claim 3 , wherein said first and second side walls of the raised section are generally perpendicular to the wall of the shaft guide they extend from.
5. The tool mounting system of claim 3 , wherein at least one of said first and second side walls has a radiused edge wherein it meet said top.
6. The tool mounting system of claim 2 , wherein the raised section has a first and a second substantially flat side wall and angled top.
7. The tool mounting system of claim 6 , wherein at least one of said first and second side walls has a radiused edge wherein it meet said top.
8. The tool mounting system of claim 2 , wherein at least one of said first and second side walls is at an obtuse angle to said shaft guide channel wall.
9. The tool mounting system of claim 2 further comprising a visual queue formed on the distal end of said nose indicating an orientation for alignment of a shaft with said shaft guide channel.
10. The tool mounting system of claim 1 , wherein the shaft is harder than the raised section of plastic.
11. A tool mounting system comprising:
a plastic tool connector head with a back side and a nose;
a generally square shaft guide with four orthogonal walls formed within said head and opening at the distal end of the nose;
a square shaft with a diameter less than said shaft guide having a free end;
a first and second of raised section forming plastic bumps extending from walls of said shaft guide into the shaft guide whereby a portion of the shaft guide near the location of each raised section is diminished;
upon insertion of the shaft into the shaft guide each bump a tool with a metal shaft pressure fit against the residuals in said shaft guide; and,
whereby upon insertion of said free end into the shaft guide a portion of each of said raised sections is removed by the free end forming a pressure fit between the residual of the plastic bumps, shaft guide and shaft.
12. The tool mounting system of claim 11 further comprising a first well in said shaft that catches and retains the residual of the raised sections.
13. The tool mounting system of claim 12 , further comprising:
a first well in said shaft that catches and retains the residual of said first raised section; and,
a second well in said shaft that catches and retains the residual of said second raised section.