Bicycle pedal crank dismantling device

• US 5,320,005 A
• Filed: 11/05/1993
• Issued: 06/14/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Chia-Yuan Hsiao
• Original Assignee: Chia-Yuan Hsiao
• Inventors: Hsiao, Chia-Yuan
• Primary Examiner(s): MEISLIN, DEBRA S
• Application Number:
  US08/147,483
• Time in Patent Office: 221 Days
• Field of Search: 81/180.1, 81/437-439, 81/459, 7/100, 7/138, 7/170
• US Class Current: 81/459
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/0071 for bicycles
• CPC Class Codes: B25B 27/023 using screws

Abstract

A bicycle pedal crank dismantling device includes a locating member which comprises an inner thread through the length, an outer thread on one end for threading into the axle mounting hole of the crank to be dismantled, and a hexagon head on an opposite end; a driving rod which comprises a screw rod on one end threaded into the inner thread of the locating member for permitting the locating member to be turned upwards along the screw rod to carry the crank away from the bottom bracket axle, a hexagonal rod on an opposite end for turning socket head crank lock screws, and a hexagonal collar in the middle for turning with a spanner; and a socket retained to the hexagon rod of the driving rod by a clamp for turning hexagon head crank lock screws.

Claims

1. A bicycle pedal crank dismantling device comprising:

a locating member which comprises an inner thread through the length, an outer thread and a hexagon head longitudinally aligned around said inner thread of said locating member, said outer thread of said locating member being for threading into axle mounting screw hole on the bicycle pedal crank to be dismantled;

a driving rod which comprises a screw rod on one end threaded into the inner thread of said locating member, a hexagonal rod on an opposite end, and a hexagonal collar disposed between the screw rod and hexagonal rod of said driving rod; and

a socket which comprises a first hexagonal hole, into which said hexagonal rod of said driving rod fits, a second hexagonal hole in line with said first hexagonal hole, into which said hexagonal collar of said driving rod fits, and a clamp fastened to an annular groove inside said first hexagonal hole to retain said socket to said driving rod.