Compound tools – Automobile repair or maintenance
Patent
1992-12-07
1994-11-29
Smith, James G.
Compound tools
Automobile repair or maintenance
7138, 811776, 254131, B25F 100
Patent
active
053677323
ABSTRACT:
A tire handling tool for manipulating a wheel-mounted tire while installing or removing it from a vehicle comprises a single steel bar bent to form a forked, substantially planar, elongated body having a longitudinal axis bifurcated at a waist, a handle section adjacent the waist, the handle section formed by two parallel segments of the steel bar spaced apart by a plate at the waist and terminating in a transverse grip opposite the plate, the tool having a tine section adjacent the waist and extending coplanar with and opposite the handle section, the tine section formed by two divergent extensions of the steel bar segments forming the handle section, each tine having a traction means on one side for engaging a tread of a tire. The plate may have a driver stud for attaching a socket wrench extension perpendicular to the plate for tightening and loosening lug nuts. The plate may further include a spin handle opposite the driver stud to facilitate spinning the nuts onto and off of the lugs.
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Manning Guy V.
Smith James G.
Tire Shuttle, Inc.
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