US430814A - Hub-clamp and wrench combined - Google Patents

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J. SULLIVAN. HUB CLAMP AND WRENCH COMBINED.

No. 430,814. Patented June 24, 1890.

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JOHN SULLIVAN, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

HUB-CLAMP AND WRENCH COMBINED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,814, dated June 24, 1890.

Application filed November 19, 1889.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN SULLIVAN, of Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Hub-Clamp and rench Combined, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved means for the simultaneous removal of a spindlenut and the wheel of a vehicle, and consists in the production of a simple, compact, and convenient implement by the use of which the hub of a vehicle-wheel may be firmly gripped and the wheel, along with the spindlenut, be expeditiously and readily removed.

To these ends my invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

Referenceis to be made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a wheel-hub mounted on an axle-spindle, with the improved wheel and nut remover in position thereon. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view in perspective of the improved implement. Fig. 3 is aside view of the wrench proper removed from the hub-gripping device, and Fig. 4 is a side view of a detached portion of the implement.

A represents a lever-wrench, the handle portion a of which is made of sufficient length for its use. At A the handle is enlarged, producing a head-piece, which is notched on its edge at h c d to provide open recesses which can be utilized as wrenches for engagement of bolt'heads or nuts. These open jaw wrenches, being of different dimensions, afford means for the adjustment of the differentsized nuts and bolts used in the construction of a wheeled vehicle, an open-jaw'wrcneh being also provided at d on the end of the handle.

At a central point in the head A of the wrench A a square orifice is formed, into which the shank e of the socket-piece B is inserted, the shank fitting therein neatly, and, extending outside of the wrench-head, is adjustably secured in the aperture by a spring-clip c, which is bent from a piece of Serial No. 330,876. (No model.)

elastic wire, and engages the parallel grooves c that are formed in the shank-body near its free end, thespring resting in a groove a formed in the face of the head A.

The socket-piece B is designed to receive a spindle-nut fin its square or hexagonal recessed body, as shown in Fig. 1, and as it is made removable from the wrench A there may be a set of different-sized socket-pieces provided for the removal of various-sized spindle-nuts on different vehicles, and a set screw it is preferably inserted in the side wall of the sockets B, (see Fig. 4,) so as to afford means for engaging nuts which will not fit the sockets.

It is of advantage to remove the wheel of a vehicle and the nut of the spindle at one operation and hold the parts intact, so that the handling of the nut, which is smeared with tar or grease, may be avoided when the wheel and nut are replaced upon the spindle. To effect this desideratum a clamping device is provided, which is combined with the wrench A and socket-piece B, as will be explained. The yoke-bar g is proportioned to the width between the notches Z) (Z in the wrench-head A, so that the integral limb h and hinged limb 72 secured to its ends will lie in said notches, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. These limbs h h are suitably curved and extend between the spokes of a wheel, to engage the hub-band ion the inner end of the hub It with the hooks 72, formed on the terminal ends of'the limbs h 7L, thus retaining the limbsin contact therewith. A set-screw boltm is inserted in acentral tapped hole produced in the yoke-plate g, which screw-bolt engages a seat or depression formed in the end of the shank e, and by its longitudinal adjustment secures all parts of the device upon a wheel and its spil'idle-nut, so that a revolution of the handle-piece a of the wrench A will remove the nut and wheel together and retain the nut properly aligned to be restored to place on the spindle when this is desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with a wrench having a central aperture in its head and with opposite notches in the edge of the same, of a socket-piece secured in the aperture of the head, a yoke-bar provided with a rigid and pivoted limb, each having a hook-shaped end and resting in the notches of the Wrenchhead, and a set-screw passing through the yoke-piece and bearing against the socketpieee, substantially as described.

} 2. The combination, with the Wrench A, provided with the head A, having a central aperture and provided with the notches Z) cl, of the soeketpiece B, provided with the shank e, detaohablyseeuredin the apertu re of the said head, the yoke bar or piece g, provided with a rigid limb h and a pivoted limb h, each having a hook-shaped end and resting" in the notches of the Wrench-head, and the set-screw I 5 on, passing through the yoke-piece and bearing against the shank of the socket-piece, substantially as herein shown and described. JOHN SULLIVAN. Witnesses:

CYRUS E. PERKINS, GRACE G. CHAPMAN.

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