US Patent 8210545 Tool holder for a rotary hammer

A tool holder for a hand-guided drilling device, in particular for a rotary hammer, includes a receiving sleeve that is designed as a single piece in particular and that is drivable in a rotating manner for a shank part of an insertion tool. The recess is open at both end faces and limited therebetween by an inner circumferential surface of the receiving sleeve. The inner circumferential surface (62) of the receiving sleeve (34) includes at least six flat circumferential surface sections (62n through 62u; 84, 86) in the circumferential direction, with adjacent circumferential surface sections (62n, 62o; 62p, 62q; 62r 62s; 62t, 62u) forming an angle of 120 degrees.