Tool handle with resilient gripping means

Claim 1

A TOOL COMPRISING IN COMBINATION A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL HANDLE BODY HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL GROOVE ADJACENT A FIRST END THEREOF AND A PLURALITY OF PERHIPHERALLY SPACED GROOVES EXTENDING PARALLEL TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BODY, AND A FLUTED GRIP COVERING A SUBSTANTIAL PORTION OF SAID BODY AND EXTENDING BEYOND THE END OF SAID BODY OPPOSITE SAID FIRST END, SAID GRIP HAVING AT LEAST ONE TERMINAL SHOULDER PORTION DISPOSED WITHIN SAID CIRCUMFERENTIAL GROOVE AND COMPRISED LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING ALTERNATING TONGUE AND SEATING MEMBERS, AND BOTH OF SAID MEMBERS HAVING THEIR INTERNAL SURFACES SPACED AT A UNIFORM RADIAL DISTANCE FROM THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BODY SO AS TO LOCATE SAID TONGUE MEMBERS IN SPACED RADIAL RELATIONSHIP ABOVE THE PERIPHERAL GROOVES, SAID TONGUE AND SEATING MEMBERS BEING INTEGRALLY JOINED BY AN AREA OF DEFORMABILITY AND SAID TONGUE MEMBERS HAVING GREATER RADIAL CROSS SECTION THAN SAID SEATING MEMBERS THEREBY FORMING A FLUTED OUTER SURFACE ON SAID GRIP AND PERMITTING SAID TONGUE MEMBERS TO MOVE INWARDLY INTO SAID GROOVES UPON THE APPLICATION OF COMPRESSIVE FORCE TO THE OUTER SURFACES THEREOF.