Bearing adjustment dial gage tool

• US 20120246955A1
• Filed: 03/30/2011
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Triseal Corp. (Amsted Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Triseal Corp. (Amsted Industries Incorporated)
• Inventors: Smith, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US13/065,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20120246955A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 33/517
• CPC Class Codes: G01B 3/22 Feeler-pin gauges, e.g. dial gauges for measuring contours or curvatures G01B5/20

Abstract

The bearing adjustment dial gage tool comprises a bar which mounts two spaced apart magnets on spindles which extend from the bar and a gage is mounted on the bar with a measuring pin extending from the gage for engaging a wheel hub to measure endplay when the tool is mounted with the two magnets to a wheel assembly.

Claims

1. A bearing adjustment dial gage tool comprising an elongated bar which mounts two spaced apart magnets on spindle assemblies which extend from the bar and a gage is mounted on the bar with a measuring pin extending from the gage for engaging a wheel hub to measure endplay when the tool is mounted with the two magnets on a wheel.

2. The tool of claim 1 wherein each spindle assembly comprise a metal base portion, a magnet mounted on the lower end thereof, a first short cylinder, a second middle cylinder and an upper cylinder a threaded shaft extending through a lock washer, through a hole in the bar and through the cylinders and then is threadably secured to said base portion.

3. The tool of claim 1 wherein said gage includes a depending tubular portion which extends through and is mounted in a throughbore in said bar by a screw extending into a side of said bar and said measuring pin extends from said tubular portion.