Guide tool for mounting vehicle wheels

• US 4,097,979 A
• Filed: 08/15/1977
• Issued: 07/04/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Stephen R. Interdonato
• Original Assignee: Stephen R. Interdonato
• Inventors: Interdonato, Stephen R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Jr., James L.
• Application Number:
  US05/824,536
• Time in Patent Office: 323 Days
• Field of Search: 29/273, 29/271, 81/53.2
• US Class Current: 29/273
• CPC Class Codes: B60B 29/001 comprising lifting or aligning means B60B29/002 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/53922 Auto wheel with auto chassis

Abstract

A guide tool to assist in mounting and dismounting an automobile wheel on the hub mounting studs therefor includes an elongated hollow tubular body internally threaded at the ends thereof with different diameter threads for threaded engagement with either of two different size wheel studs. The outer surface of the body is cylindrical and dimensioned to be received through the stud holes of the wheel for guiding the wheel onto and off of the studs without sliding engagement between the wheel and the stud threads. Diametrically opposed recesses in the outer surface of the body intermediate the ends thereof provide a seat for an end wrench or the like to facilitate mounting the guide tool on or removing it from a wheel stud.

Claims

1. A guide tool for use in guiding the stud holes of an automobile vehicle wheel over the mounting studs of the associated vehicle hub, said guide tool comprising an elongated hollow tubular body having a smooth cylindrical outer surface extending the length thereof dimensioned to be received through a stud hole of an associated wheel and chamfered at each of the opposite ends thereof, said body having two internally threaded portions respectively at the opposite ends thereof and respectively having two different sizes of thread diameter for threaded engagement with a stud of either of said two sizes on the associated hub for mounting thereon, each of said threaded portions having a length less than the length of an associated stud and substantially greater than the distance between said threaded portions, and two diametrically opposed flat rectangular recesses in said outer surface of said body substantially midway between the opposite ends thereof for accommodating an end wrench or the like, said body when mounted on an associated stud being receivable through a wheel stud hole for guiding the wheel onto and off of the stud substantially without sliding engagement therebetween.