WILLIAM L SMITH
Engineering in Hartford, CT

4249435, Feb 10, 1981

Jul 30, 1979

6/061856

Norman R. Villeneuve - East Granby CT
William J. Smith - West Hartford CT

B25B 23142

81477

A tool for turning a screw, nut, bolt or other rotatable workpiece includes a bottom housing carrying a workpiece engageable part and, above the housing, a handle engageable by the hand of a user. The handle is axially and angularly shiftable relative to the housing and is angularly connectable to the housing through both a torque spring and through sets of angular stops on the housing and on the handle which stops are brought into and out of engagement with one another as the handle is shifted axially relative to the housing. The tool may be used as an ordinary screw driver or wrench whereby hand torque is transmitted directly from the handle to the housing, as a torque measuring tool whereby hand torque is transmitted from the handle to the housing through the torque spring, and as a preloaded tool whereby a given amount of torque is loaded into the tool prior to application to the workpiece and then, after application of the tool to the workpiece, is released and used to rotate the workpiece without the handle being rotated by the user.

3963109, Jun 15, 1976

Jun 9, 1975

5/585051

William J. Smith - West Hartford CT

Royal Business Machines, Inc. - Hartford CT

G41J 132

197 55

A non-homing positioning mechanism to effect type selective movements of a single element typehead by means of coordinate band systems wherein the coordinate band systems are cntrolled by a translator comprising a four armed cross-shaped member unidirectionally rotatable in 90. degree. steps. A set of radially spaced pins are arranged along opposing arms of the cross-shaped member, the sets being alternately selectively settable in response to successive character selections to cause selective band displacement incident to each 90. degree. rotation of said cross-member. One end of each band system is anchored and the other end is connected to position and hold the typehead to a selected character in accordance with the displacement thereof through selected pins on opposing arms of and incident to movement of the cross-shaped member.

4137448, Jan 30, 1979

Oct 4, 1976

5/729400

William J. Smith - West Hartford CT

G06C 2700, G06C 300, A63B 5500

235 78G

A device for enabling a golfer to determine the proper length of putting stroke according to the distance between ball and hole and according to the lie of the ball. The device comprises a plurality of scales representing relationships between putting strokes and putt distances for various lies. According to visual estimates of the distance and lie of a ball, be it flat, uphill, downhill or sidehill, a golfer may read out from the scales the corresponding putt stroke and aim necessary to hole a putt of any distance and lie.