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US 12,521,862 · App. 18/752,452 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Hand-held pulling and compression device

Inventor: Torsten Kreischer (Wetter, DE)
Assignee: TKR Spezialwerkzeuge GmbH
B25F3/00B21J15/105B21J15/26
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Patent No.
US 12,521,862
App. No.
18/752,452
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a hand-held pulling and compression device for driving interchangeable tools, with a drive unit with a battery-operated electric motor, a screw drive with a threaded spindle mounted rotatably on a housing body and a threaded nut mounted rotatably on the threaded spindle and non-rotatably on the housing body via a bearing unit, and a coupling unit connected to a tool holder for transmitting tensile and compressive forces resulting from the direction of rotation of the threaded spindle from the threaded nut to the tool holder. In order to provide a hand-held pulling and compression device that can be used easily and flexibly for different work operations, it is provided that the hand-held pulling and compression device has a switching unit for coupling and decoupling the screw drive from the drive unit.

Claims (13)

1 . Hand-held pulling and compression device for driving interchangeable tools, with

a drive unit comprising a battery-operated electric motor,

a screw drive with a threaded spindle mounted rotatably on a housing body and a threaded nut mounted rotatably on the threaded spindle and non-rotatably on the housing body via a bearing unit, and

a coupling unit connected to a tool holder for transmitting tensile and compressive forces resulting from the direction of rotation of the threaded spindle from the threaded nut to the tool holder,

the device including a switching unit for coupling and decoupling the screw drive from the drive unit, wherein the threaded spindle is designed as a hollow spindle for receiving a rotating shaft connected to the electric motor.

2 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 1 , wherein the switching unit is adjustable between a coupling state connecting the threaded spindle to the drive unit and a decoupling state separating the threaded spindle from the drive unit.

3 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 1 , wherein the switching unit has a coupling element connecting the threaded spindle in the coupling state to the drive unit.

4 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 3 , wherein the switching unit is designed and/or adjusted on the housing body in such a way that the adjustment between the coupling state and the decoupling state is effected by adjusting the drive unit and/or the coupling element relative to the screw drive.

5 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 3 , wherein the coupling element has at least one coupling section for positive connection to the threaded spindle in the coupling state.

6 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 3 , wherein the switching unit has an adjustment element for adjusting the coupling element between a coupling position assigned to the coupling state and a decoupling position assigned to the decoupling state.

7 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 6 , wherein the adjustment element is designed such that the coupling element can be adjusted mechanically or electro-mechanically between the coupling position and the decoupling position in order to adjust the switching unit from the coupling state to the decoupling state.

8 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 3 , wherein the switching unit has a guide for the adjustment element, which is designed in such a way that the coupling element is moved in the longitudinal direction of the threaded spindle for adjustment between the coupling position and the decoupling position.

9 . Hand-held pulling and compression device according to claim 1 , wherein the switching unit is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the threaded spindle between the screw drive and the drive unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 28, 2025
From: KREISCHER, TORSTEN
To: TKR SPEZIALWERKZEUGE GMBH
Reel/Frame 072693/0606 →
Continuity (1)
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