US603838A - And james m - Google Patents

Description

G. & J. M. DAVI'S.

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VEHICLE WRENCH.

No. 603,838. Patented May 10,1898.

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GRANVILLE DAVIS, OF NORTH SALEM, INDIANA, AND JAMES M. DAVIS, OF HENRY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO DAVID D. THOMSON, OF NORTH SALEM, INDIANA I i VEHICLE-WRENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,838, dated May 10, 1898.

Application filed October 11, 1897. Serial No. 654,769. N model-l 1'0 aZZ whom it maywlwern: jecting portionlS, is pivotally attached to Be it known that we, GRANVILLE DAVIS, the hinge-lug 2 by a pin or bolt 10. An adresiding at North Salem, in the county of justable arm 11, having an angular jaw 12 Hendricks and State of Indiana, and JAMES and carrying a pivotally-secured hook 13 at M. DAVIS, residing at Henry, in the county its outer end, is slidably secured upon the of Marshall and State of Illinois, citizens of jaw-support 8 bymeans of a thumb-screw 14, the United States, have invented certain passing through a slot 15 in the adjustable new and useful Improvements in Vehiclearm 11 and entering threaded openings 16 in Wrenches; and We do declare the following the jaw support 8. The spring -arm 4 is 10 to be a full, clear, and exact description of preferably formed of flat spring metal, with the invention, such as will enable others the integral hook 17 at its outer end and at skilled in the art to which it appertains to right angles thereto. make and use the same, reference being had In operation the jaws 3 and 12 are adjusted to the accompanying drawings, and to the to fit the vehicle-nut by means of the thumb- 15 figures of reference marked thereon, which screw 14 and slot 15. Said jaws are placed form a part of this specification. on the nut and the hook 13 hooked over a Our invention relates to improvements in spoke of the 'wheel 19. The spring-arm 4- is vehicle-wrenches of the class that are adapted then depressed until the hook 17 on the end to simultaneously clamp the axle-nut and thereof also engages a spoke, when the ten- 26 vehicle-wheel and take off or put on said aXlesion of the spring-arm serves to hold it senut by rotating the wheel. curely in position on the wheel and nut. By The objects of our invention are, first, to rotating the wheel the nut will be loosened provide a wrench of that class that will be or tightened, as the case may be, inasmuch simple in construction; second, that can be as it is forced to turn with the wheel- Should 2 5 quickly adjusted to fit nuts of different sizes; it be desired to clamp a nut without using third, that has an elastic arm which holds the the hooks 13 and 17, the jaws 3 and 12 are jaws in constant contact with the nut, and, adjusted upon the nut and the screw 7 tightfourth, that has a means for adjusting the ened until its end, pressing against the inner jaws to clamp a nut without the necessity of face of the projecting portion 18, will clamp 0 clamping the wheel. the jaws uponthe nut. The adjustment of With these objects in View our invention the jaws is sufiicie'nt to fit the wrench to any consists in the construction and combination vehicle-nut of the class of Vehicles for which of parts shown in the accompanying drawit is intended. As seen in Fig. 5, the arms 4 ings and described in the following specificaand 11 are on an angle when the wrench is 35 tion. in use with the hooks l3 and 17 secured upon In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevathe spokes of the Wheel.

tion, the dotted lines indicating the adjust- Having thus described our invention, what ment of the jaws. Fig. 2 is a top plan view. we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line .1100 out of the United States, is-

0 of Fig. 2, the securing-hooks being broken 1. A vehicle-wrench of the class described, 0 away. Fig. 4 is an end view of the springconsisting of the jaw-base 1, having the lug arm hook, and Fig. 5 shows the device as ap- 2, the extended portion 6, carrying the thumbplied to a vehicle-wheel. screw 7, and the jaw 3, and having a spring- Referring to the drawings, 1 is a jaw-base arm 4, fixedly secured thereto, said spring- 45 having a hingelug 2, an extending angular arm terminating in a right-angled hook 17, a 5 jaw 3, and having a spring-arm 4 secured jaw-support 8, having lugs 9,andaprojection thereto by rivets 5. Opposite the jaw 3 is a 18, an adjustable arm 11, slidingly secured to projecting portion 6, having a threaded opensaid support 8, by means of a thumb-nut 14, ing therein to receive the thumb-screw 7. A passing through a slot 15, said arm having the 50 jaw-support 8, having hinge-lugs 9 and a projaw 12, at one end and the pivotally-secured 10o hook 13 at the other end, all substantially as set forth.

2. A vehicle-wrench composed of two oppositely-disposed members, pivotally hinged together, each of said members provided with a nut-engaging jaw upon one side, one of said members provided with a spring-arm terminating in a right-angled hook adapted to engage a vehicle-spoke, and the other member composed of two portions, the jaw portion being slidably adjustable upon the hinged portion and adapted to be regulated by means of a thumb-screw working in a slot in said member, said member terminating in a pivotallymounted hook-engaging spoke, all as shown and described.

3. In a vehiclewrench of the class described, the combination with the member 1, having the jaw 3, and the extended portion 6, carrying the thumb-screw 7, and the springarm 4, pivotally secured to the member 1, and terminating in a flat hook 17, integral with and at right angles to said arm 4, of the jawsupport 8, pivotally connected with the base 1, and having an extended face 18, adapted to engage the thumb-screw 7, the sliding arm 11, adjustably secured upon the jaw-support 8, by means of the thumb-screw 14, said arm having the jaw 12, upon its inner end and the pivotally-secured hook 13, upon its outer end, all substantially as shown and described.

4. The combination in a Vehicle-wrench of the class described, of an adjustable sliding arm 11, having a spoke-engaging hook 13,

pivotally secured at its outer end and a nutengaging jaw integral with its inner end, and the jaw-support 8, having hinged lugs 9, and threaded openings 16, with the jaw-base 1, having the nut-engaging jaw 3, and an extended portion 6, carrying a thumb-screw 7, and having a spring-arm 4, terminating in a hook 17 fixedly secured thereto, as shown and described.

5. In combination in a vehicle-wrench of the class described, the jaw-base 1, having the lug 2, the extended portion 6, carrying the thumb-screw 7, and the jaw 3, the springarm 4, fixedly secured thereto, said springarm terminating in a hook 17, disposed at right angles to said arm, a j aw-support 8, having a screw-engaging depending portion 18, and provided with openings 16, to receive the said thumb-screw 14, the adjustable arm 11, having the slot 15, and the jaw 12, the pivotally-mounted hook secured to the end of the arm 11, the thumb-screw 14, securing said arm upon the support 8, thejaw-base 1, being pivotally connected by means of the bolt 10, passing through the lugs 2, and 9, all as set forth.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GRANVILLE DAVIS. JAMES M. DAVIS.

Witnesses:

LUoY NATHAN, CAREY S. FRYE.

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