---
publication_id: "OT-2026-000001759"
title: "Ratcheting tool"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:08:30.584626Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001759"
categories:
  - "tools-tooling/clamping-tools"
keywords:
  - "b25b21/004"
  - "b25b21/004"
  - "b25b21/004"
  - "b25b21/004"
  - "b25b13/46"
  - "b25b13/46"
---

# Ratcheting tool

## Abstract

A powered ratchet tool includes a housing, an output member having a toothed surface, and a drive mechanism for driving the output member. The drive mechanism includes a yoke in which the output member is arranged. A first pawl is in the yoke and is biased toward the toothed surface of the output member and a second pawl is in the yoke and is biased toward the toothed surface of the output member. A selection ring having a circumferential wall is arranged between the yoke and the toothed surface of the output member. The circumferential wall has a first window and a second window and the selection ring is moveable between a first position and a second position.