Bearing gauge

• US 3,308,546 A
• Filed: 01/14/1965
• Issued: 03/14/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold A. Storch
• Original Assignee: Harold A. Storch
• Inventors: Storch, Harold A.
• Application Number:
  US04/425,499
• Time in Patent Office: 789 Days
• US Class Current: 33/517
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 13/44 of the chuck type
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 13/48 for special purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/0035 for motor-vehicles wrenches for mounting or dismounting wheels B60B29/003
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 2310/305 by screwing
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 35/025 the wheels being removable
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2200/11 Passenger cars; Automobiles
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 19/548 in O-arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 23/06 Ball or roller bearings
• CPC Class Codes: F16C 2326/02 Wheel hubs or castors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/4978 Assisting assembly or disassembly

Claims

1. A GAUGE INCLUDING A HOUSING HAVING A CENTRAL OPENING FOR RECEIVING A WASHER OR THE LIKE, A PLURALITY OF GAUGE FINGERS SLIDABLY CARRIED BY SAID HOUSING AND MOVABLE INTO SAID OPENING OUT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WASHER, A PLUSAID OPENING OUT OF ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WASHER, A PLURALITY OF SPRINGS, EACH SPRING BEING OPERABLE TO BIAS ONE OF SAID GAUGE FINGERS IN A DIRECTION OUT OF SAID OPENING, AN ANNULAR CAM ANGULARLY MOVABLE IN SAID HOUSING, SAID CAM SURROUNDING SAID OPENING AND HAVING A PLURALITY OF LOBES EACH ENGAGEABLE WITH ONE OF SAID GAUGE FINGERS FOR MOVING SAID GAUGE FINGERS RADIALLY INWARDLY INTO SAID OPENING AGAINS THE FORCE OF SAID SPRINGS, SAID CAM BEING MOVABLE TO A POSITION FREEING SAID GUAGE FINGERS FOR MOVEMENT BY THEIR SPRINGS AWAY FROM SAID WASHERS, AND A PLURAILITY OF SPRING BIASED LATCHES ENGAGEABLE WITH SAID WASHER ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE THEREOF FROM SAID GAUGE FINGERS, SAID LATCHES HAVING CAM SURFACES WHEREBY SAID LATCHES WILL BE MOVED RADIALLY OUTWARDLY UPON INSERTION OF SAID WASHER IN SAID OPENING TO PERMIT SAID WASHER TO BE MOVED INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID GAUGE FINGERS.