Tools – Wrench – screwdriver – or driver therefor – Spanner
Patent
1990-06-20
1999-06-15
Meislin, D. S.
Tools
Wrench, screwdriver, or driver therefor
Spanner
811763, 81129, 81DIG6, 81179, B25B 1312, B25B 1350
Patent
active
059117974
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is an improved arrangement for the operation of an overhead garage door that comprises an adapter utilized for installation and periodic maintenance of the support arrangement. Also disclosed is an adapter for use with existing garage door structures, improved wrenches for use in tensioning coil springs usually found in such arrangements and a method for tensioning such coil springs when they are originally installed or during periodic maintenance of the springs. The adapter comprises a body that may be mounted upon a rotatable shaft that supports the coil springs and be non-rotatabley attached to an end of the coil spring and the rotatable shaft. The attachment to the shaft is a releasable connection and the body has splines or projecting abutment surfaces so that two of the improved wrenches according to the present invention may have their jaws closely surround and engage the splines on the body. For already existing structures the adapter has an end that is designed to attach to the collar already in place and also be attached to the end of the coil spring. The wrenches have releasable latch means that are designed to engage and disengage with the splines on the adapter body. The method according to the present invention comprises engaging and rotating the splines with the wrenches in an alternate manner such that the coil spring is wound to make the tension greater or less as one desires.
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Trevorrow Thomas P
Trevorrow, Jr. Thomas P.
Yoder Ben D.
Zuccolotto Albert E
Albentom Corp.
Diehl, Esq. Dwight G.
Meislin D. S.
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