Vehicle body repair tool

• US 5,461,900 A
• Filed: 12/27/1994
• Issued: 10/31/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Shamus
• Original Assignee: Shamus
• Inventors: Gutierrez, Marty R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Larson, Lowell A.
• Application Number:
  US08/363,991
• Time in Patent Office: 308 Days
• Field of Search: 72/457, 72/477, 72/479, 72/480, 72/481, 72/705, 81/463
• US Class Current: 72/479
• CPC Class Codes: B21D 1/06 Removing local distortions
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 72/705 Vehicle body or frame straightener

Abstract

A device for use in the repair of automobiles, trucks, farm equipment and other vehicles having sheet metal bodies capable of deformation from impact accidents, which device includes a main body portion having a first nestable solid section and a second tubular receiving section, the receiving section being constrictedly open at its proximal end being closed on its distal end by a closure which is threaded to receive a work head of varying configurations, each of which is interchangeable with the other for carrying out specific tasks or functions within a specific area of the vehicular body.

Claims

1. A device for use in confined environments for the repair of vehicles deformed from impact accidents, which device includes a main body portion and a series of tool heads, which device comprises:

a. said main body portion, comprising;

i. an elongated shaft nestable first section having distal and proximal ends with a handle being mounted at its proximal end, and a circumscribing sleeve spaced down from said handle disposed on said shaft, said sleeve defining with the distal end of said shaft a planar surface of an impact applying segment at the distal end thereof;

ii. a tubular receiving second section, adapted to receive the nestable first section therein,

said second section being constrictedly open at its proximal end and closed off by an internally disposed plug at its distal end, said plug having a finite diameter and being threaded to threadedly engage any one of,

b. said series of interchangeable tool heads being of varying configurations each of which comprises a metal working section and a mount section attached thereto, which mount section comprises a cylindrical solid member of a finite diameter, said member having a threaded mounting shaft emanating upwardly therefrom, which shaft is engageable with the second section of said main body portion, wherein the diameter of the plug closing off the second section of the main body portion is substantially the same as the diameter of the mount portion of the tool'"'"'s cylindrical solid section, and said plug and said mount portion each having a planar surface in an abutting relationship,

whereby upon utilization of said device, energy is transferred from said plug to said tool head through said cylindrical solid member.

2. In the device of claim 1 wherein at least part of the shaft of the first section of the main body portion is coated with Neoprene polymerized (2-chloro-1,3-butadiene).

3. In the device of claim 1 wherein the tool head is an arrow head.

4. In the device of claim 1 wherein the tool head is a bullet head.

5. In the device of claim 1 wherein the tool head is a beaver tail.

6. In the device of claim 1 wherein the tool head is an offset.

7. In the device of claim 1 wherein the tool head is a duckbill.

8. In the device of claim 1 wherein the handle is coated with Neoprene polymerized (2-chloro-1,3-butadiene).

9. In the device of claim 1 wherein the receiving section is coated with Neoprene polymerized (2-chloro-1,3-butadiene).

10. A device for use in confined environments for the repair of vehicles deformed from impact accidents, which device includes a main body portion and a series of tool heads, which device comprises:

a. said main body portion, having;

i. an elongated shaft nestable first section having distal and proximal ends with a handle being mounted at its proximal end, and a circumscribing sleeve spaced down from said handle mounted on said shaft, said sleeve defining with the distal end of said shaft a planar surface of an impact applying segment at the distal end thereof;

ii. a tubular receiving second section, adapted to receive the nestable first section therein,

b. an injury precluding circumscribing collar disposed on the elongated shaft spaced down from said handle,

said tubular second section being constrictedly open at its proximal end and closed off by an internally disposed plug at its distal end, said plug having a finite diameter and being threaded to threadedly engage any one of

c. said series of interchangeable tool heads being of varying configurations each of which comprises a metal working section and a mount section attached thereto, which mount section comprises a cylindrical solid member having a threaded mounting shaft emanating upwardly therefrom, which shaft is engageable with the second section of said main body portion, wherein the diameter of the plug closing off the second section of the main body portion is substantially the same as the diameter of the cylindrical solid section of the mount portion of the tool, and said plug and said mount portion each having a planar surface in an abutting relationship,

whereby upon utilization of said device, energy is transferred from said plug to said tool head through said cylindrical solid member.

11. In the device of claim 10 further including an injury precluding circumscribing collar disposed on the elongated shaft spaced down from said handle, and said handle is coated with Neoprene®

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12. In the device of claim 10 wherein at least one of the handle, the said shaft and the said tubular section are coated with Neoprene®

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13. In the device of claim 12 wherein at least two of the handle, the said shaft and the said tubular section are coated with Neoprene®

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14. In the device of claim 10 wherein the tool head is an arrow head.

15. In the device of claim 10 wherein the tool head is a bullet head.

16. In the device of claim 10 wherein the tool head is a beaver tail.

17. In the device of claim 10 wherein the tool head is an offset.

18. In the device of claim 10 wherein the tool head is a duckbill.