COMBINATION TOOL FOR USE WITH VEHICLE WHEELS

• US 3,649,976 A
• Filed: 08/31/1970
• Issued: 03/21/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William Isom
• Original Assignee: William Isom
• Inventors: Isom, William
• Primary Examiner(s): McGehee, Travis S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Parker, Jr., Roscoe V.
• Application Number:
  US05/068,077
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 7/1E,17 81/177B 29/245,267,273 254/131
• US Class Current: 7/100
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 1/00 Combination or multi-purpose hand tools associations of tools for different working operations with one portable power-drive means B25F3/00; combined stapling and punching tools B25C5/0214
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53922 Auto wheel with auto chassis

Abstract

A one piece, rigid combination tool which can be used to secure a spare wheel of a vehicle in a storage position and which can be used, even by women, to quickly and easily change a vehicle wheel.

Claims

1. A tire combination tOol comprising:

a straight web member having a length less than the diameter of a vehicle wheel;

paralleled straight arm members fixed to the opposite ends of said web member and each extending therefrom at a 90* angle to said web;

a straight socket arm member fixed to and projecting from the center of said web member and extending in a direction opposite to that in which the parallel arm members extend;

a bevelled edge on the free end of one of said arm members;

a socket adapted to fit on a lug nut fixed on the free end of said socket arm; and

means mounted on said web member, whereby the tool can be releasably secured to hold a spare wheel in place.

2. A tire combination tool as in claim 1, wherein the means mounted on said web member, whereby the tool can be releasable secured to hold a spare wheel in place comprises a tab with a hole therethrough projecting from the center of the web member at a location opposite to the socket arm member and centrally between the arm members fixed to the opposite ends of the web member.