US1795041A - Fender straightening and holding tool - Google Patents

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March 3, 1931. J. REPLOGLE 1,795,041

FENDER STRAIGHTENING AND HOLDING TOOL Filed Jan. 6, 1930 INVENTOR, W @fio J 44 ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 3, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAMES REPLOGLE, F GREENVILLE, OTIIO FENDER STRAIGHTENIIIG AND HOLDING TOOL Application filed January 6, 1930. Serial No. 418,696.

reformed position while being hammered or otherwise brought back to its proper shape.

My improved tool is simple and compact in construction and may be easily applied to a fender as an important aid in straightening and holding it.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a bent front automobile fender before my straightening and holding tool has been applied to the fender and the wheel under it.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the wheel,

'- the tool and the fender after the latter has been straightened and alined by it. Figure 3 is a perspective view of my tool applied to a rear automobile fender and wheel. Figgure 4 is a side View of the tool itself. Figure 5 is a perspective view of the fender engaging clamp. And Figure 6 1s a perspective view of the eye member for securing the tool to a lug on the wheel below the fender.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a detailed description of my invention, the

numeral 1 designates a fender straightening and holding tool which includes as its principal elements a threaded rod 2, a smooth rod 3, a fender clamp 4 and a double eye 5. (See Figures 4, 5 and 6.)

Referring to Figure 4 the threaded rod 2 terminates atone end in a right angled foot portion 6 formed with a hole through which the rod 3 freely projects, terminating beyond it in a hook portion 7. Fitted on the other ends of the rods 2 and 3 is a loose doubleeye plate 8 which is free to slide along the rod 2 betwen a mushroom shaped head 9 formed thereon, and the foot portion 6 of the threaded rod 2. The latter terminates beyond the loose plate 8 in a hook portion 10.

, The end 10 of the rod 2 is adapted to hook into a hole 11 of a sliding jaw 12 of the fender clamp i. This jaw is free to move longitudinally through a right angled sleeve portion 13 on a jaw member 14. The outer side of the sleeve portion 13 of this jaw 14: inclines inwardly from top to bottom, and the part which rises above it terminates in a flanged gripping portion 15. At its upper end the sliding jaw 12 is curved slightly toward the flanged portion of the jaw 14, to effectively co-act with the latter in tightly gripping the bent portion of an automobile fender when drawn downwardly by the rod 2. The inclination of the outer side of the sleeve portion 13 assists in effecting this tight grip of the jaws upon the fender by forcing the jaw 12 inwardly when it is drawn downwardly through the sleeve.

In Figure 6 I have shown the double eye piece 5 which is secured to the hook portion 7 of the smooth rod 6. This eye piece is formed in the shape, substantially, of a figure 8, with a hole 16 which receives the hook 7 and a hole 17 which fits a lug on the automobile wheel below the bent fender. By means,

then, of this eye piece 5, the tool 1 may be easily attached to a wheel lug, while its other end is secured to the fender by the clamp 4.

In practice, the clamp 4 hooked to the tool ,1, is clamped to the edge of the bent fender l8of the automobile 19 shown in Figure 1. The eye piece 5 carried by the other end of the tool is applied to a lug 20 on the automobile wheel 21 below the fender. As the fender, by hammering or other means, is brought back to its original shape, the tool will hold it firmly in each reformed position through the engagement of the loose plate 8 with the threads on the rod 2. The tool is easily contractible because of the ease with which the foot 6 of the rod 2 will slide over the smooth rod 3, and of the adaptability ofdthe loose plate 8 to slide easily over both ro s.

In Figure 3 I have shown my tool 1 ap plied to a bent rear fender 22 of the automobile 19, where it is equally effective as an aid in the straightening and holding operapull the fender down. When the tool 1 is .connected between the fender and a lug on the wheel, as shown in Figure 2, the motor 'right angled sleeve on said jaw, andhaving an inclined rear side, and a flat coactlng aw is started'and the car reversed until the fend er is pulled down to the desired position by the rotation of the wheel to which the tool is attached.

Haying described my invention, I claim: 1. device of the type described, comprising a pair of rods, one of which is threaded, means connecting said rods for a longitudinal movement adjacent each othenajender en gaging clamp on one end of" one rod and a wheel-lug engaglng means on the oppos te end of the other rod, and a locking member slidable along both rods for engagement with the threaded'portion of the one rod to hold the otherorod in an adjusted position with relation to it.

2. A device of the type described, comprising ap'air of rods, one of which is threaded, a foot onthe threaded rod through which the other slides, a fender engaging clamp on one end of one rod and a Wheel-lug engaging means on the opposite end of the other rod,

a flanged head on the latter rod, and a loose double eye plate slidable along both rods for the purpose specified.

'3. A device of the type described, comprising a pair of rods, one of which is threaded, a foot on the threaded rod through which the smooth rod slides, a head on the smooth rod, a hook on the free end of the threaded rod, a hook on the opposite end of the smooth rod, a fender engaging clamp secured to thehook end of the threaded rod and a wheel-lug engaging eye piece on the hook end of the other rod, and a loose double eye plate slidable I along both rods for-the purpose specified,

4; A fender clamp comprising a fiat jaw I,

with a terminal flange engaging portion, a

slidable through said sleeve.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set i my hand this 4cth day of January, 1930.

7 JAMES REP-LOGLE.

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