US921540A - Axle-nut wrench. - Google Patents

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J. W. HALL. AXLE NUT WRENCH. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1908.

Patented May 11, 1909.

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AXLE-N UT WRENCH.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 23, 1908.

pivotally or loosely mounted. Said hooks are also constructed from sheet metal, each I being formed from a single strip which is dale, in the county of Amite and State of l broad at one end and. curved into semicir- Mississippi, have invented certain new and l useful Improvements in Axle-Nut renches,

of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in I axle nut wrenches of that class in which the I I To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JOHN VJ. IIALL, a citif zen of the United States, residing at Smithengage one of the spokes 2 and its other end being tapered and bent upon itself to pro vide an eye 13 which is engaged with one of the eyes 11. The socket member 6 is also constructed from a single piece of sheet metal which is cut and bent to provide a center or base portion 14 and four upwardly bent side portions 15 which latter form the socket proper and are adapted to receive the axle nut between them. The base portion 14: of the socket member is soldered upon the center of the base portion 8 of the body member 5 as more clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The operation of the invention will be readily understood upon reference to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The device is placed centrally upon the wheel so that the hub enters the offset central portion of the body member and the axle nut enters the socket member 6. The resilient arms 10 of the body member are then sprung inwardly and the hooks 7 which they carry are engaged with diametrically opposite spokes. When this has been done the wrench will be coupled to the wheel so that the nut can be turned on and oil of the axle by rotating the wheel.

device is engaged with the spokes of the vehicle wheel and the wheel is utilized to turn the wrench in removing or applying the nut to the axle.

The object of the invention is to improve and simplify the construction and operation of wrenches of this character thereby rendering the same less expensive and more durale, convenient and effective.

With the above and other objects in view, l the invention consists of the novel features of construction and the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which,

Figure 1 is a front view or the improved 1 wrench showing it applied to a wheel; Fig. 2 I is a longitudinal section through the same; I Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the resilient body member of the wrench; Fig. 4 is a similar view of the nut socket; and Fig. 5 is a The necessity of handling the nut is entirely slmllar view of one of the spoke-engaging obviated by the use of the invention and a hooks.

In the drawings 1 denotes the hub and 2 the spokes of a buggy or other vehicle wheel, 3 denotes the axle nut and 4. denotes the improved wrench. The latter consists of a resilient body member 5 and nut socket 6 and two spoke engaging hooks 7. Said body member is in the form of a strip of resilient sheet metal of greatest width at its center and tapering from its center to its ends, its broad centrally portion being bent or oilset to surround the hub and having a base portioh-S and two substantially right angular side portions 9. The two taper ends or arms 10 of the body member have their reduced extremities bent upon themselves to provide eyes 11 in which the hooks 7 are effectively oiled or removed without danger of soiling the hands or dropping the nut.

The peculiar construction of the device renders it inexpensive to produce and at the same time strong and durable.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

The herein described axle nut wrench comprising a body member constructed of resilient sheet in tal and having a broad cen trally offset portion and longitudinally tapered resilient arms, the latter having their outer extremities bent to form eyes, spoke engaging hook members having their inner ends bent to form eyes to be engaged with eyes of said arms, and their outer ends bent I vehicle wheel is permitted to be quickly and I cular form as shown at 12 so as to readily to form hooks to be engaged with the Wheel In testimony whereof; I hereunto afiix my spokesland a nut engiaging socket formed of a signature in the presence of two Witnesses. cross-s iaped piece 0 metal having its s uere central portion secured to the central %fi'set N HALL portion of said body member and the four sides bent up at right angles to form a square socket for the reception of the axle nut.

\Vitnesses W. O. MOGEHEE, J. M. SMITH.

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