Bicycle brake pad toe-out adjusting tool

Details Bicycle brake pad toe-out adjusting tool Bicycle brake pad toe-out adjusting tool

1995-07-13

1996-03-19

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Brakes

Vehicle

Velocipede

188382, B62L 106, F16F 900

Patent

active

054996988

ABSTRACT:
A small and portable gaping tool in a first embodiment generally comprising a pivotal or hinge connection between two elongated arm members allowing distal ends of the arms to be pivoted toward and away from one another. A connected spring member biases the distal ends of the arms toward one another. The distal end of each arm includes a pivotally supported shim plate extending perpendicular to the arm. With the arms manually pulled into an open or spread position, the shim plates are located one on each oppositely disposed side of a bicycle wheel, wherein the spring member drawing the arms inward secures the tool in place with clamping frictional pressure. The pivotal aspect of the pivotally attached shim plates allow the shims to adjust to varying slopes of different bike wheel sides so as to lay flat thereagainst. The shims are about three millimeters in thickness for example, and are used to shim out the rearward or toe end of bicycle caliper brake pads in adjusting the pads for proper toe-out. One version of the invention includes a shim plate of proper thickness having a tacky adhesive on at least one side thereof to hold the shim plate temporarily in place between the wheel side and adjacent brake pad to provide the toe-out angle setting, and after the toe-out is secured the adhesively held shim plate is removed.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3848906 (1974-11-01), Fleishman
patent: 4768623 (1988-09-01), Nagano
patent: 5064027 (1991-11-01), Akamatsu
patent: 5168962 (1992-12-01), Yoshigai
patent: 5435611 (1995-07-01), Campbell et al.

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