Claims
- 1. A drill bit and sharpener package comprising a case having two leaves pivotally mounted together along one edge by ring-shaped knuckles;
- a tube mounted within the compass of said knuckles and serving as a pintle about which said knuckles rotate, and a drill bit sharpener removably and replaceably mounted in said tube.
- 2. The package of claim 1 including at least one drill-receiving tray mounted in one of said leaves.
- 3. The package of claim 2 wherein said tray has a pivot at a lower end for movement of said tray toward and away from a wall of said leaf.
- 4. The package of claim 2 wherein a tray has a chuck wrench seat in it.
- 5. The package of claim 3 wherein said tray has a stop spaced from said pivot and said leaf has a channel in which said stop is mounted for limited movement.
- 6. The package of claim 3 wherein both leaves have sidewalls extending around their perimeters, said walls of the two leaves facing each other when the leaves are closed and abutting around their perimeters.
- 7. The package of claim 6 wherein each of said leaves is formed of plastic in one piece, one of said leaf walls having a projecting arm with a lip at an outer end and the other of said leaf walls having a lip-receiving recess complementarily positioned to receive said lip.
- 8. The package of claim 1 wherein said drill bit sharpener has a housing with a cylindrical part nested in a complementarily shaped spine portion of said case.
- 9. The package of claim 8 wherein said drill bit sharpener has a shaft projecting from said drill bit sharpener housing in a direction axially within said tube.
- 10. The package of claim 9 wherein said drill bit sharpener housing has an opening at a part remote from said tube, in which a chuck is mounted, and a collet is mounted inside said chuck.
- 11. The package of claim 9 wherein a hinge cap is mounted in an open end of said tube, said hinge cap having a depending stem with a blind bore opening at its upper end for receiving said shaft.
- 12. The package of claim 9 including a wire stand member having an arcuate section extending into a space between said cap and a body of said sharpener housing, and a pair of legs extending from said arcuate section axially of said housing and pivotally mounted to said housing at ends remote from said arcuate section when said sharpener is mounted in said tube, said arcuate section being rotatable to a position at which it supports an end of said sharpener housing when said shaft is connected to an electric drill when the sharpener is demounted from the package.
- 13. The package of claim 10 wherein said sharpener has a grinding wheel mounted on said shaft and an opening defined by an inside surface of a collar at an angle to the axis of rotation of said shaft in which said collet can be mounted to hold a drill to be sharpened.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/023,370, filed Aug. 8, 1996.
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