US3832917A - Device for loosening wheel nuts or lugs of automobile wheels - Google Patents

Device for loosening wheel nuts or lugs of automobile wheels Download PDF

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US3832917A
US3832917A US00292341A US29234172A US3832917A US 3832917 A US3832917 A US 3832917A US 00292341 A US00292341 A US 00292341A US 29234172 A US29234172 A US 29234172A US 3832917 A US3832917 A US 3832917A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60B—VEHICLE WHEELS; CASTORS; AXLES FOR WHEELS OR CASTORS; INCREASING WHEEL ADHESION
    • B60B29/00—Apparatus or tools for mounting or dismounting wheels
    • B60B29/003—Wrenches, e.g. of the ratchet type
    • B60B29/007—Supports for wrenches
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25B—TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B23/00—Details of, or accessories for, spanners, wrenches, screwdrivers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B25—HAND TOOLS; PORTABLE POWER-DRIVEN TOOLS; MANIPULATORS
    • B25B—TOOLS OR BENCH DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, FOR FASTENING, CONNECTING, DISENGAGING OR HOLDING
    • B25B27/00—Hand tools, specially adapted for fitting together or separating parts or objects whether or not involving some deformation, not otherwise provided for
    • B25B27/14—Hand tools, specially adapted for fitting together or separating parts or objects whether or not involving some deformation, not otherwise provided for for assembling objects other than by press fit or detaching same
    • B25B27/30—Hand tools, specially adapted for fitting together or separating parts or objects whether or not involving some deformation, not otherwise provided for for assembling objects other than by press fit or detaching same positioning or withdrawing springs, e.g. coil or leaf springs

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  • ABSTRACT [21] Appl 292341 An upstanding rod-like member with a supporting base therefor has a very short collar member slidable [30 1 p i Application p i Data thereon for connection thereto at a selected height by Sept 29 1971 Germany 7136849 a thumb-screw. A rod extends outwardly from the short collar at right angles to the upstanding rod-like 52 US. Cl.
  • the invention is based on the problem of providing a device for the loosening of wheel nuts and/or lugs on automobile wheels, making it possible even for feeble persons to securely loosen a very firmly tightened wheel nut or lug and to tighten this nut or lug again sufficiently firmly well.
  • socket wrench wherein one socket end fits on the nut or lug of an automobile wheel, the other socket end fits into a spanner wrench with a hexagonal socket, and the said socket end of the socket wrench is freely rotatably attached to a laterally projecting pin of a very short pipe section, which latter can be selectively shifted along and affixed to a rod extending upwardly from a base.
  • a spanner wrench in accordance with this invention functions as a handle and makes it possible to utilize the entire body weight for loosening and tightening the nuts or wheel lugs, rather than only the arm muscles; the weight of the body, even in case of a weak person, will always be enough to make a tire change possible for a sole person at any location.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of the tire wrench device according to the invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a rearelevational view of the device of FIG. 1, showing the left side of the device of FIG. 1.
  • a short pipe section 3 is connected to be readily slidably movable upwardly and downwardly on vertically disposed pipe or rod l, and maintained at any desired level on the rod 1 by rotating or tightening a hexagon head screw 4 on slide section 3 by hand into engagement with the pipe 1.
  • the length of the vertical rod or pipe 1 corresponds approximately to the diameter of an automobile wheel, with the pipe 1 being provided with a base 2 connected thereto and in the form of an iron plate, or the like.
  • Base 2 may be detachable or integral with pipe or rod 1.
  • a pin 5 is attached to the short pipe section 3, at right angles to the longitudinal axis 6 of the pipe section on the side opposite from the height ad- 5 justing screw 4.
  • the diameter of the pin 5 is selected so that one of the conventional straight socket wrenches 7 can be attached with ample play inside the hollow bore of socket wrench 7.
  • One socket end 8 of the socket wrench 7 is formed with a socket, such as hexagon in shape, and is adapted to encompass with a good fit the standard nuts or lugs of an automobile wheel.
  • the other hexagon-shaped socket end 9 is externally encompassed about its entire circumference by a flat, but strong and long monkey wrench or spanner wrench 10, with little play between the hexagonal opening in wrench l0 and the hexagonal circumference of socket end 9.
  • the hexagon or other shaped, opening in spanner wrench 10 has a sliding fit with the similarly shaped circumference of socket end 9.
  • the spanner Wrench 10 preferably has a length of at least approximately half the length of pipe 1, that is, half the diameter of a wheel or greater. 7
  • the short pipe section 3 is slid along pipe 1 and brought approximately to the level of the nut or lug on the automobile wheel to be loosened, after first loosening the hexagon head screw 4.
  • the screw 4 is slightly tightened by hand so that the short pipe section 3 does not fall down again by itself.
  • the socket wrench 7 is pushed onto the pin 5 and thereafter the shaped opening in the long spanner wrench 10 is slidably pushed over the narrow socket end 8 of socket wrench 7 until it is seated on and engaging the similarly circumferentially shaped broad socket end 9 on the opposite end of wrench 7.
  • the muscle power of the person using the device is insufficient for loosening the wheel nut or lug by means of pushing down or pulling up on the long lever arm of the spanner 10, the person can take a seat, without any muscle strain, simply on the end of the spanner gradually or suddenly; thus, the rod 1 is exposed to once and/or twice the weight of the body, and the spanner l0 exerts such a large torque on the wheel nut or. lug through wrench 7 by means of its long lever arm that a loosening of the nut can be attained with absolute certainty.
  • the short pipe section 3 does not, for example, move downwardly under the load of the person using the device, because this load is effective laterally of the pipe 1 and thus exerts a tilting moment on the short pipe section 3 which effects ajarnming or locking of the short pipe section 3 on the pipe 1 and prevents any sliding motion.
  • the force required for loosening the wheel nut or lug is not exerted on the short pipe section 3, then the latter can be readily adjusted to any desired level after loosening the screw 4, and can also be retained in such position by slightly tightening the hexagonal head of the screw 4.
  • the device is used in the'sarne manner as for loosening a nut or lug, except that the spanner wrench lever 10 and socket wrench 7 are rotated in the opposite direction, according to normal practice.
  • a device for loosening wheel nuts and lugs of automobile wheels comprising an upstanding rod member having an uninterrupted surface and a base support, a short collar having a bore slightly greater in diameter than the diameter of said rod member receiving said rod member and providing a small radial space between the bore and rod member whereby said short collar is free to tilt relative to said rod member and is freely selectively shiftable along said rod member, a laterally projecting pin connected stationary with and carried by said short collar, a hollow socket wrench having socket portions at opposite ends and a hollow bore therethrough between said opposite socket portion, the socket portion at one end adapted to engage the nuts and lugs of automobile wheels, the laterally projecting pin extending through the socket portion at the other end and freely rotatably engaging said hollow bore between said opposite socket portions, said laterally projecting pin and hollow socket wrench on one side of said short collar normally tilting said short collar into locking engagement with said upstanding rod member to detachably lock said short collar to said rod member at selected heights, another wrench member having an opening at one end thereof engaged with said socket
  • a device as set forth in claim 1 in which said socket portion at the other end has a contoured exterior surface, and the opening in said another wrench member having a corresponding contoured surface for slidably engaging the exterior surface of said socket portion at the other end.

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US4537101A (en) * 1983-12-12 1985-08-27 Eversole Frank A Lug nut remover
USD283101S (en) 1983-08-15 1986-03-25 Lymburner Kenneth G Wrench support
US4619161A (en) * 1985-01-02 1986-10-28 Reynolds Keith H Support for wheel lug wrench
US4620462A (en) * 1985-07-22 1986-11-04 Gene Mayes Tool for removing truck lug nuts
US4972742A (en) * 1989-10-13 1990-11-27 Brown Larry J Lug nut removal tool
DE4028706A1 (de) * 1990-08-02 1992-03-19 Gerald Clarence Cooper Stecknuss eines ratschen-steckschluessels
USD409060S (en) * 1997-08-07 1999-05-04 Lucy Patrick C Cross-bar torque wrench
US6041681A (en) * 1996-06-13 2000-03-28 Griffin, Sr.; Edwin Lug wrench stabilizer
US6044502A (en) * 1998-04-27 2000-04-04 Fountain; Thomas R. Sink strainer clamp
US20030010161A1 (en) * 2000-03-10 2003-01-16 Ready John K Wheel nut loosening and tightening device
US20050132850A1 (en) * 2003-12-18 2005-06-23 Hamann James E. Air actuated pneumatic impact wrench lug bolt tool
US11806845B1 (en) 2020-06-04 2023-11-07 Peter Grbach Lug nut engaging tool
USD1018229S1 (en) * 2021-10-18 2024-03-19 William L. Hobson, Jr. Battery powered wrench

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US2447919A (en) * 1946-09-10 1948-08-24 Austin F Teigen Adjustable support
US2960895A (en) * 1957-07-24 1960-11-22 Richards Grady Wrench support
US3069945A (en) * 1959-12-07 1962-12-25 Shandel Fred Device for removing wheel nuts and bolts
US3097550A (en) * 1959-11-20 1963-07-16 Harlow H Johnston Lug wrench support

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US2447919A (en) * 1946-09-10 1948-08-24 Austin F Teigen Adjustable support
US2960895A (en) * 1957-07-24 1960-11-22 Richards Grady Wrench support
US3097550A (en) * 1959-11-20 1963-07-16 Harlow H Johnston Lug wrench support
US3069945A (en) * 1959-12-07 1962-12-25 Shandel Fred Device for removing wheel nuts and bolts

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USD283101S (en) 1983-08-15 1986-03-25 Lymburner Kenneth G Wrench support
US4537101A (en) * 1983-12-12 1985-08-27 Eversole Frank A Lug nut remover
US4619161A (en) * 1985-01-02 1986-10-28 Reynolds Keith H Support for wheel lug wrench
US4620462A (en) * 1985-07-22 1986-11-04 Gene Mayes Tool for removing truck lug nuts
US4972742A (en) * 1989-10-13 1990-11-27 Brown Larry J Lug nut removal tool
DE4028706A1 (de) * 1990-08-02 1992-03-19 Gerald Clarence Cooper Stecknuss eines ratschen-steckschluessels
US6041681A (en) * 1996-06-13 2000-03-28 Griffin, Sr.; Edwin Lug wrench stabilizer
USD409060S (en) * 1997-08-07 1999-05-04 Lucy Patrick C Cross-bar torque wrench
US6044502A (en) * 1998-04-27 2000-04-04 Fountain; Thomas R. Sink strainer clamp
US20030010161A1 (en) * 2000-03-10 2003-01-16 Ready John K Wheel nut loosening and tightening device
US6769333B2 (en) * 2000-03-10 2004-08-03 John Raymond Keady Wheel nut loosening and tightening device
US20050132850A1 (en) * 2003-12-18 2005-06-23 Hamann James E. Air actuated pneumatic impact wrench lug bolt tool
US7089833B2 (en) * 2003-12-18 2006-08-15 H.B. Products, Inc. Air actuated pneumatic impact wrench lug bolt tool
US11806845B1 (en) 2020-06-04 2023-11-07 Peter Grbach Lug nut engaging tool
USD1018229S1 (en) * 2021-10-18 2024-03-19 William L. Hobson, Jr. Battery powered wrench

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