US 7,549,196 B2
Tool
Carsten Ziegs, Hamburg (Germany); and Willi Strauss, Schonaich (Germany)
Assigned to DOLMAR GmbH, Hamburg (Germany); and SOLO Kleinmotoren GmbH, Sindelfingen (Germany)
Filed on Mar. 16, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/378,556.
Claims priority of application No. 20 2005 004 316 U (DE), filed on Mar. 17, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0230623 A1, Oct. 19, 2006
Int. Cl. B25G 1/10 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 16—430  [16/431] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hand-operated tool (100) with a housing (12) and at least one handle (14) that is arranged on the housing such that it can be turned about an axis (13), wherein said handle comprises first and second handle shells (15, 16) and a bearing part that is mounted on a counter bearing of the housing (12), characterized in that the first handle shell (15) and the bearing part are realized in one piece and the second handle shell (16) to be mounted on the first handle shell (15) is realized without a bearing part, wherein the bearing part includes a bearing sleeve (17), and the counter bearing includes a bearing journal (18), a safety device (19, 20, 21) that prevents the handle (14) from loosening from the housing (12) in the axial direction along the axis of rotation (13), wherein the safety device (19, 20, 21) features a circumferential groove (19) on the bearing journal (18) that corresponds to at least one recess (20) in the bearing sleeve (17), and wherein the second handle shell (16) features at least one safety element that extends through the recess (20) and engages into the groove (19).