Insulating ratchet driver with pivoting head
An insulating ratchet driver with pivoting head has: a handle, a spring, a pressing knob, a driving head and a pivoting member. The pivoting member is provided with a cover made of an insulating material. All metal portions of the handle, the pressing knob and the driving head are coated with an insulating layer.
1. An insulating ratchet driver with a pivoting head comprising:
a handle,
a spring,
a pressing knob,
a driving head, and
a pivoting member, the pivoting member provided with a cover made of an electrically insulating material, all metal portions of the handle, the pressing knob and the driving head being coated with an electrically insulating layer;
wherein:
an end of the handle has an assembling portion, the assembling portion has an opening, a side of the assembling portion provided with a first pivoting aperture and a socket passing through the opening, the socket disposed adjacent to the handle, and the spring and the pressing knob are disposed in the socket;
the pressing knob has a first end and a second end, an escaping gap provided between the first end and the second end on a bottom of the pressing knob, and the spring disposed in the socket respectively pushes the socket and the second end of the pressing knob;
the driving head has a main body provided with a connecting rod driven by a ratchet unit, another end of the main body provided with a toothed wheel, a stopping edge provided between each tooth of the toothed wheel, each stopping edge extending along a lateral side of the toothed wheel, the toothed wheel further provided with a second pivoting aperture, the toothed wheel of the driving head disposed in the opening of the handle, the second pivoting aperture of the toothed wheel aligned with the first pivoting aperture of the opening, the pivoting member disposed in the in the first and second pivoting apertures, and the driving head is pivoted onto the assembling portion of the handle via the toothed wheel, and the pressing knob is biased by the spring to urge the escaping gap away from the opening of the handle, such that the pressing knob engages with two teeth of the toothed wheel and pushed against the stopping edge.
2. The insulating ratchet driver with pivoting head as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the pivoting member is screwed together with the pivoting aperture of the handle.