Stress reducing tool mounting method
View Patent ↗A aspects of one or more exemplary implementations, disclosed is 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 method comprising:
inserting a tool with a metal square shaft having a free end into a generally square shaft guide with four orthogonal walls of a plastic tool connector;
during insertion pass the free end over 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 and has a diameter small than the diameter of the metal square shaft; 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 method of claim 1 , the method further comprising retaining at least a portion of the residual raised section in a well formed in the shaft.
3. The tool mounting method of claim 2 further comprising a visual queue formed on the distal end of said nose indicating an orientation for alignment of the shaft well with said shaft guide channel.
4. The tool mounting method of claim 1 , wherein the raised section has a first and a second substantially flat side wall and a substantially flat top.
5. The tool mounting method of claim 4 , wherein said first and second side walls of the raised section are generally perpendicular to the wall of the shaft guide they extend from.
6. The tool mounting method of claim 4 , wherein the raised section has a first and a second substantially flat side wall and an angled top.
7. The tool mounting method of claim 6 , wherein at least one of said first and second side walls has a radiused edge wherein it meets said top.
8. The tool mounting method of claim 4 , 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 method of claim 4 , wherein at least one of said first and second side walls has a radiused edge wherein it meets said top.
10. The tool mounting method of claim 1 , wherein the shaft is harder than the raised section of plastic.
11. A tool mounting method, the method comprising:
forming a plastic tool connector head with a nose having a generally square shaft guide with four orthogonal walls formed within said head and opening at the distal end of the nose;
forming first and second raised sections of plastic bumps extending from at least one wall of the shaft guide into the shaft guide whereby a portion of the shaft guide near the location of each raised section is diminished;
inserting a square shaft with a diameter larger than the diminished section of the shaft guide into the shaft guide than said shaft guide; and,
during insertion of the shaft into the shaft guide a portion of each of said raised section 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 method of claim 11 further comprising at least one well in the shaft that catches and retains the residual of a raised section.