US550969A - Vehicle-axle-nut wrench - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

, J. HASTINGS.

VEHICLE AXLE NUT WRENCH.

No. 550,969. Patented Dec. 10, 1895.

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NITED STATES JOEL HASTINGS, OF BURKE, NEWV YORK.

VEHlCLE-AXLE-NUT WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 550,969, dated December 10, 1895.

Application filed August 20, 1895. Serial No. 559,917. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOEL HASTINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burke, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Vehicle-Axle-Nut WVrench, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in vehicle-axle-nut Wrenches.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of vehicle-axle-nut wrenches: and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient one adapted to be readily applied to a vehicle -wheel and capable of ready adjustment to adapt itself to the position of the spokes and the axle-nut.

The invention consists in the constructio and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an axle-nut wrench constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view showing the same applied to a Wheel and nut. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail longitudinal vertical section through one end of the resilient bar and its metal clip.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

1 designates a resilient bar carrying at its center an adjustable nut-receiving socket 2 and having at its ends adjustable spoke-engaging rods 3 and 4, adapted to connect the ends of the bar to two oppositely-disposed spokes 5 of a wheel 6, whereby the latter may be employed as a lever for unscrewing the axle-nut 7, which is received within the socket 2. Each spoke-engaging rod is adjustable to enable it to properly engage a spoke, and its shank portion passes through a perforation in the extremity of said bar and also through aligning perforations in a metal clip 8, embracing such extremity of the bar and capable of a slight sliding movement thereon. In rear of the bar 1. each rod is provided with a handle 9 and a set-screw 10, which passes through. a threaded perforation in the end of ping or displacement.

the clip 8, bears against the extremity of the bar 1, and serves when screwed inward to draw outward upon the clip 8 and bind the shank of the spoke-engaging rod against slip- By this construction the spoke-engaging rods maybe caused to project inward from the bar to a greater or less extent.

The rod 3 is provided with a hook 11, adapted to engage a spoke and formed integral with the rod and arranged at the inner end thereof. The other rod 4 has mounted on it adjacent to its inner end a pivoted approximately semicircular catch 12, adapted, after the wrench has been placed in position, to be swung around the adjacent spoke to confine the rod 4 to the same. The wrench may be readily detached by swinging the pivoted catch out of engagement with the spoke. WVhen the pivoted catch is in engagement with the spoke, its outer free end is arranged adjacent to the end of the rod.

The nut-receiving socket 2 is rectangular, its outer end is closed, and its inner end is open to receive the nut, and it is provided at opposite sides with slots 14, through which passes the bar 1.

It will be seen that the Wrench is simple and inexpensive in construction, that it iscapable of adjustment to fit a wheel, and that it will enable an axle-nut to be readily removed.

Ghanges in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to Without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

WVhat I claim is- 1. A wrench comprising a bar provided at its ends with perforations, a nut-receiving socket mounted on the bar intermediate of the ends thereof, rods passing through the perforations vided with a hook, a substantially semi-cirmy 'own lhave hereto affixed. my signature in cular catch pivotally secured to the other rod the presence of two Witnesses. adjacent to the inner end thereof and adapted to receive and confine the spoke between it JOEL HASTINGS. 5 and the rochand a nut-receiving socket mount- "\Vitnesses ed on the bar, substantially as described. JOHN G 1\/I CIIARDY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as DAVID M. KELLY.

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