UNIVERSAL CARBURETOR WORK STAND WITH USER RECONFIGURABLE SUPPORT STANCHIONS

• US 20140042681A1
• Filed: 02/27/2013
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Christianna Mikhal Kooney
• Original Assignee: Christianna Mikhal Kooney
• Inventors: Kooney, Christianna Mikhal
• Application Number:
  US13/779,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20140042681A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 269/8
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 11/00 Work holders not covered by any preceding group in the subclass, e.g. magnetic work holders, vacuum work holders for holding or positioning work for welding, soldering, or cutting by applying heat locally B23K37/04; specially adapted to machine tools B23Q3/00
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 11/002 Magnetic work holders
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49998 Work holding

Abstract

A carburetor work stand allows the user to reconfigure the carburetor support stanchions, thereby allowing any carburetor, regardless of vintage, type, size or mounting bolt pattern, to be supported by the work stand.

Claims

1. A carburetor work stand comprising:

a magnetically attractive base plate;

a plurality of support stanchions;

a protrusion on a top of the support stanchions; and

a magnet disposed in a hole on a bottom portion of the support stanchion, the magnet securing the support stanchion on the steel base plate.

2. The carburetor work stand of claim 1, wherein the plurality of support stanchions include four support stanchions.

3. The carburetor work stand of claim 1, wherein the protrusion has a size to fit into carburetor mounting holes of a carburetor mounted atop the plurality of support stanchions.

4. The carburetor work stand of claim 1, wherein the magnetically attractive base plate is a steel base plate.

5. A method for supporting a carburetor while providing full range of carburetor linkage and assembly movement, the method comprising:

positioning a plurality of support stanchions on a magnetically attractive base plate, the plurality of support stanchions having a magnet in a bottom portion thereof to attract the support stanchions to the base plate; and

supporting the carburetor on the plurality of support stanchions by inserting protrusions on the top of each of the plurality of support stanchions through carburetor mounting holes in the carburetor.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of support stanchions include four support stanchions.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the magnetically attractive base plate is a steel base plate.