Abstract: A handheld punch tool assembly having individual removable punch segments formed of a high strength material capable of being struck repeatedly by a striking instrument, each of the individual punch segments including a substantially flat punch surface on one end thereof structured to engage in abutting relation with a substantially flat corresponding surface to be punched. Each of the individual punch segments have a different transverse dimension than a remainder of the punch segments so as to effectively vary the size of the punch surface. The individual punch segments are removably attachable to one another to form an elongate, multi-punch segment body of variable length. A plurality of various size collar members are each individually structured to be removably fitted about a corresponding one of the punch segments so as to effectively increase the transverse dimension and accordingly, the size of the punch surface of that particular punch segment.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel apparatus which is useful for readily removing the fitting from a hose, particularly a hydraulic hose. An expansion guide for fitting on the end of a hose to enable a fitting at the opposite end of the hose to be loosened comprising a hollow cylinder open at both ends, the opening at one end being of a diameter greater than the outer diameter of the hose, and the opening at the other end being narrower than the outer diameter but greater than the interior diameter of the hose, the interior of the cylinder having an annular ledge at the narrower end, the ledge being adapted to fit at the end of the hose.

Abstract: First and second mounting tools for securing disc supports and fluorette sockets respectively, to a wall or ceiling of a doll house are disclosed. The first mounting tool includes a cylindrical member having a first axial cylindrical bore formed at a first end of the cylindrical member for holding the disc support. The first mounting tool also includes a second axial cylindrical bore which extends from a bottom surface of the first cylindrical bore. The second mounting tool includes a circular disc member having a groove on its top surface for holding the fluorette socket. A cylindrical stem extends perpendicularly from a center of a bottom surface of the disc member and is adapted to interfit with the second cylindrical bore of the first mounting tool.

Abstract: A battery powers the motor of an electrically powered impact gun. The body of the gun vibrates at some frequency and an aluminum brush holder therein is configured to vibrate at about the same frequency to minimize chatter and arcing of the brushes on the commutator bars.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention there is provided a pneumatic slide hammer for removing a plug from a tube or other structure including a percussive piston, a housing for containing the percussive piston and for connecting to the plug to be removed from a structure, and a slidable cylindrical valve for controlling the flow of air under superatmospheric pressure to force the percussive piston against to impact against the housing and force the plug from the housing.

Abstract: A brake tool member is arranged for ease of impacting of a spring retainer clip structure relative to a brake cylinder for securement to a brake backing plate structure typically in an automotive environment. The structure includes an elongate handle coaxially aligned with a forwardly extending shank. A support flange orthogonally mounted to a forward distal end of the shank mounts a plurality of first and second mounting flanges, with the mounting flanges each including a semicylindrical ring segment arranged for positioning for abutment to the securement clip of the brake structure.

Abstract: It includes a hand starter having a rear large hand gripping element, a small leading element with a V-notch in its leading end; a hand driver constituted by a rod of a diameter similar to that of the leading element of the driver; a modified hand starter having a bore in its rear end for reception of a power driver; a holder including a flexible string having clips on its ends for detachably clipping onto the pin and the hand driver.

Abstract: A forcible entry tool is disclosed which enables law enforcement personnel such as SWAT teams or police or other persons such as fireman to breach a heavily fortified door or the like in a matter of seconds without the use of explosives. A ram is taught which is adjustable in weight to suit the needs of an individual and which may be inter-locked with another ram of the same structure in order to "gang" them and several can be locked together, forming a heavy, multi-manned battering ram.

Abstract: An adjustable tool to reliably retain and accurately align annular seals of varying diameter for installation in a hub, housing, or similar component, at an axle or shaft of a motor vehicle. The tool includes a drive dish upon which a seal is received and to which an impact force is applying by way of an elongated handle, so as to cause the seal to be installed. The tool also includes a seal retaining assembly to be moved radially over the drive dish and into engagement with the seal so that said seal is centered and retained on the tool to facilitate installation.

Abstract: An insertion tool to project a reduced diameter lower portion of a dipstick tube into an internal combustion engine is formed to include elongate, cylindrical tube formed with an enclosed slot directed through a side wall thereof. The side wall receives the dipstick tube therethrough in the use of an arcuate dipstick tube, wherein the cylindrical tube permits the sliding reception of a coaxially aligned dipstick tube, wherein the tube structure includes a removable and securable plug of rigid construction of an upper terminal end of the tool to receive impact and direct the dipstick tube into the engine. A removal tool includes a lower flange plate formed with a serrated "V" shaped notch engageable about a dipstick tube, with the flange plate including a rod and the rod formed with a lever at its upper end to permit the lifting of the flange plate and the dipstick tube upon rotation of the lever.

Abstract: A tool for installing and removing a clutch drum piston assembly from a planetary gear assembly and for installing and removing the planetary gear assembly within an automobile automatic transmission includes a sliding hammer arrangement and an adjustable spindle adapted to be used with clutch drum assemblies of various diameter central apertures. The adjustable spindle is formed form a plurality of elongated arcuate members radially disposed about a cylindrical member intermediate the ends of the arcuate members defining a fulcrum. An adjustment collar having a tapered interior surface is disposed about one end of the elongated arcuate members. As the adjustment collar is moved axially toward the other end of the assembly, the tapered inner surface causes the arcuate members to pivot radially outwardly about the fulcrum. A shaft is connected to the disk and extends outwardly from the collar. The outwardly extending portion of the shaft serves as a guide for a sliding hammer.

Abstract: A tool is disclosed for replacing the washer in a planetary gear of the type having a frame, an elongated axle having both ends secured to the frame, a gear rotatably mounted to the axle and in which the washer is disposed around the axle between one end of the gear and the frame. The tool includes a plate having a top surface and a bottom surface. At least one arcuate cut-out is formed in the plate which receives a portion of the frame containing the gear. With the planetary gear positioned within the cut-out, the axle registers with at least one recess formed in the top surface of the plate. Thereafter, an elongated punch drives the axle into the recess thereby exposing the washer and enabling its replacement. Thereafter, the axle is again driven through the replacement washer and the end of the axle is staked to the planetary gear frame thereby completing the repair.

Abstract: A slide hammer tool adapted to be used with attachments to engage various standard wrenches such as braking bars, open end wrenches, box wrenches, etc., and cooperates with a socket set to loosen or tighten "frozen" bolts and nuts.

Abstract: An impact tool for removing a constant velocity joint from a splined drive shaft is disclosed. The tool is a cast metal member comprising a lower shank, a central shaft, and a cup-shaped head. In use, the shank is inserted into an air hammer, and the cup-shaped head is placed over the drive shaft and in contact with a trunnion located within the open end of the constant velocity joint. The air hammer, when operated, delivers a significant impact force, through the tool, to the trunnion and separates the constant velocity joint from the drive shaft.

Abstract: A hinge pin and tip removal tool is used in combination with a hinge having a pair of hinge leaves having interfitting knuckles cooperating to provide a barrel with a pin receiving cavity extending therethrough, a hinge pin with a head at one end of the barrel and a shank extending in the barrel cavity and a tip seated in the other end of the barrel cavity and having a passage extending axially therethrough. The tool has one end portion of a first diameter smaller than the passage in the tip for insertion therethrough to drive the hinge pin away from the tip, its other end portion has a larger diameter cooperatively dimensioned with the cavity of the barrel for insertion into its end into the barrel after removal of the pin to drive the tip outwardly of the other end.

Abstract: This invention is a adjustable forked wedge separator. The invention basically consist of a handle that is integrally attached to the narrow edge of a truckcated triangular shaped body member. On the wide edge of the trunkcated triangular shaped body member are the wedge members. These members are flat on the bottom and of the same thickness as the body member at the bottom and taper to a point at the top end. In one embodiment of this invention one of these wedges is integral attached to the body member and the other wedge is adjustable. In this embodiment of the invention the means for adjusting the one wedge is a rack on the bottom of the adjustable wedge member and a helix shaped gear around the outside of the cylinder in an opening in the body member. The rack and the helix shaped gear engaged such that when the cylinder is turned the wedge moves. In another embodiment one or both wedges can be adjustable. In this embodiment the body member has slots on each side of the handle.

Abstract: A forcible entry tool is disclosed which enables law enforcement personnel such as SWAT or police or other persons such as firemen to breach a heavily fortified door or the like in a matter of seconds without the use of explosives. A ram like device is taught which is normally operated by two persons which can penetrate through a steel re-enforced door by using a heavy-duty slide hammer with a leg support that is locked to the correct height for support when a pin is pulled. The apparatus also has a hook on one end which may be impaled in the door or hooked to any other object and the door or object removed outwardly.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel apparatus which is useful for readily removing the fitting from a hose, particularly a hydraulic hose. An expansion guide for fitting on the end of a hose to enable a fitting at the opposite end of the hose to be loosened comprising a hollow cylinder open at both ends, the opening at one end being of a diameter greater than the outer diameter of the hose, and the opening at the other end being narrower than the outer diameter but greater than the interior diameter of the hose, the interior of the cylinder having an annular ledge at the narrower end, the ledge being adapted to fit at the end of the hose.

Abstract: An automobile engine oil pump pickup tube installation tool for driving an oil pump pick up tube into an oil pump mounted in an engine block with a force fit, the tool having a slot formed in one end thereof with a hardened metal end plate at the end of the slot for engaging the tube of the oil pump.

Abstract: Pin insertion and removal tool includes a main block and a holder cup or socket for holding a pin to be inserted to secure a tooth onto a shank of a bucket. The holder cup or socket is secured to a holder block which is in turn secured to the main block. An extractor pin is secured to an extractor block, and the extractor block is secured to the main block. Both the extractor pin and the holder cup or socket are spaced apart from the main block by predetermined distances. The main block includes impact portions which receive hammer blows to set the pin and to remove the pin, as required. Adjacent to the holder cup or socket is a pin setting face that is used to completely insert the pin after it has been started and is sufficiently into the tooth and shank to remove the socket and tool from the pin and to move the tool slightly to provide direct force against the pin for setting the pin by hammer blows on the pin setting impact portion of the main block.

Abstract: There is described a surgical tool and method for implanting a condylar prosthesis onto a femur using the tool. The prosthesis is of the type having a pair of posterior condyles which define an intercondylar notch opening including a distal internal contact surface extending anteriorly from the notch toward an anterior condylar flange. The tool comprises an elongated handle having a proximal end adapted for contact with the prosthesis and a distal end with an anvil for driving the prosthesis onto the distal aspect of the resected femur. One or more arms are attached to the proximal end of the shaft, including one or more anteriorly projecting fingers which are moved within the notch to engage the proximal internal contact surface. A pair of abutment pads are actuated to engage an external surface of the proximal condyle and exert a force opposite to the gripping finger(s) to securely lock and hold the prosthesis and tool together during implantation.

Abstract: A hinge pin tool having a particular form and constructed to facilitate removing headed hinge pins from the hinges in unibody automobile repairs. The tool is especially configured to receive and apply heavy, forceful blows to the hinge pin with the blows being delivered at a spaced distance from the operator's hand to prevent injury.

Abstract: Apparatus in accordance with this invention comprises a first part adapted to be positioned in engagement with an expander of an anchor bolt, a second part adapted to be engaged by a hammer drill, and a coupling between the first and second parts. The coupling includes a guide adapted to engage a bolt of the expander and a release normally connecting the second and first parts. The guide engages the release and holds the release in engagement with the first and second parts during driving operation but disengages the release after the expander has moved a preset distance relative to the bolt.

Abstract: A freeze plug installation tool kit includes a drive tool having a coupling ball and a plurality of selectable carrier heads respectively sized for mating engagement with different-sized freeze plugs and detachably mountable on the coupling ball. Each carrier head has a cylindrical socket with an annular groove in which a split ring is disposed for snap engagement with the coupling ball to retain the ball in the socket. A flexible disk in the socket cooperates with the split ring to limit movement of the ball when it is retained in the socket.

Abstract: An impact tool having an elongated shank provided at a first end with a first impact member having a substantially perpendicular face plate laterally offset from the shank and provided at the second end with a second impact member, also having a substantially perpendicular face plate laterally offset from the shank in a direction opposite the first face plate; each of the face plates facing one another. The first impact member serves as a catch end of the tool to be placed in contact with the object to be impacted. The second impact member provides the strike plate, with the shank transmitting the force of the impact of a hammer or the like to the catch end to apply force to the object impacted in the same direction as the force initiated by the hammer. A handle may be provided for convenience.

Abstract: Rods, tubes, posts, and the like rod structures are driven into the ground by a device which is successively clamped to selected intermediate portions of the lengths of these rods to avoid heretofore involved awkwardness, instability, and unsafe driving conditions encountered when the top ends of long rods are engaged to force the rods into the ground. The device is easily and quickly clamped to the rod at a level close to the ground to be impacted by a driving tool such as a jackhammer at a convenient reachable height. When the device is driven to ground level, it is easily released from the rod and raised to a starting level and then reclamped for the next driving increment. The successive raising and driving steps are repeated until the rod is driven to a desired depth in the ground. When the top end of the rod approaches ground level, the device can be mounted over this end and impacted to drive the rod further into the ground.

Abstract: A handheld punch structure having an integrally formed elongated base of one piece construction and formed of a high strength material capable of being struck repeatedly by a striking instrument or used with a hydraulic press structure. The base defines a plurality of integrally formed punch segments thereon wherein successively positioned ones of the punch segments increase in transverse dimension by a predetermined increment successively from one end towards an opposite end and a gripping portion formed thereon to facilitate gripping by the hand of the user.

Abstract: A tool for use in stretching or elongating an axle ring so that it may be removed from an associated axle. A lever with an elongated nose impacts against a narrow band across the width of the axle ring and produces a peening or plastic flow action to elongate the ring. The tool includes means for locating itself on the axle to properly position the nose both axially and radially.

Abstract: An axle wedge removal tool assembly is set forth utilizing an elongate body formed with a first through-extending bore of a first diameter terminating and removed from a second end with a counter bore threaded internally of a second diameter greater than the first diameter for securement relative to a threaded stud of an axle. An impact tool is utilized with a forward blunt end to cooperate with a forward blunt end of an associated wheel stud whereupon the elongate body, upon securement to a threaded axle stud, aligns the associated impact tool that is secured to an associated impact driver. An axle wedge securing and aligning the stud relative to a hub housing is vibrated loose relative to the hub housing for removal to enable removal of the hub housing relative to an associated wheel assembly.

Abstract: An installation tool for installing a cup-shaped freeze plug in an engine block's bore. A reciprocable hammer nose connectable to a power source repetitively hammers the freeze plug to drive it into the bore. One feature includes a hammer stroke adjustment system which permits the stroke depth of the hammer nose into the block's bore to be adjusted by the tool's user in order to seat the plug at a pre-determined depth in the bore. Another feature includes a housing particularly sized and configure to cooperate with a freeze plug of the type having a minor diameter base section adapted to be slip fit into the block's bore and a major diameter rim section adapted to be pres fit into the bore, the plug's rim being received internally of the housing when the plug's base is slip fit into the bore, and when the housing is engaged with the outer surface of the engine block so as to align the plug and the tool and the bore properly prior to hammering the plug's rim into the bore.

Abstract: An axle shaft pulling assist device to help remove an axle having a flanged end, from a wheel hub, the device including an elongated main block with threaded biasing members which engage the back side of the flanged axle end. A striker shaft slidably arranged through the main block is hit, to jar the axle shaft loose, while the bias is being applied to the studs.

Abstract: A tool is described for mounting and demounting splined joints, especially those found in the front-wheel drive assemblies of cars. A special tool is provided which can be inserted into the internally splined wheel hub rotatably fixed to the vehicle and which screws on to one end of the externally splined drive shaft portion being installed in the hub. The other end of the tool mounts to a slide hammer. When the slide hammer weight is banged against the tool or against the oppositely located hammer stop, the momentum impulse is transmitted to the splined shaft to push it out of or into the splined wheel hub, depending upon the direction of movement of the hammer weight. The tool is successful even with interference fit splined joints otherwise requiring large press forces for assembly or disassembly.

Abstract: An automotive separating tool that is used for separating ball joint connections, tie rods from steering arms, and other similar parts and that has wedge shaped head, with a pair of projecting prongs, and a handle. The head and handle are removably secured together by a threaded connection so that different sized heads may be used either with a handle designed to be struck by a hammer or with a handle designed to be driven by a conventional air hammer.

Abstract: A tool for driving electrical staples and the like, to support nonmetallic wiring, which prevents the staple from clamping the cable and possibly damaging the insulation. The tool comprises a body portion which has a recessed passage formed at one end of its longitudinal axis. The recessed passage is shaped and sized to receive an electrical staple and completely surround a typical electrical conductor without touching it. The recessed passage also incorporates a staple-engaging member and a magnet to secure a staple within the recessed passage of the tool while the staple is being hammered into a building structure.

Abstract: A portable tool for compressing a fitting on a high pressure hose comprising identical forged and machined parts that are held in alignment by parallelly positioned bolts that extend therethrough. The parts moved toward each other when a hammer or the like is applied to the outside surface of one of the parts. The parts have aligned mating surfaces each defining a die in their opposed surfaces for compressing a fitting to a hose when the hammer or like force is applied thereto. Shims are used to reduce the size of each die so that the tool can be used with an assortment of hose fittings on a variety of hose sizes.

Abstract: A hydraulic valve lifter removal device (10) for removing hydraulic valve lifters from an engine (14). The removal device (10) comprises an elongated lifter retrieval housing (24) having a closed distal end portion (26) for being inserted through the cam shaft opening (34) of an engine (14) and into the interior of the engine. The housing (24) also includes a proximal end portion (28) which remains exterior to the engine for manipulating the housing (24). A plurality of lifter receiving openings (32) accessing the interior of the housing (24) are selectively spaced along the length of the housing (24).

Abstract: A device for installation and removal of a wrist pin from a piston includes a press pin having an upper end for engaging a hydraulic ram and a lower end section of reduced diameter which engages into the bore of the upper end of a wrist pin. The lower end of the wrist pin is engaged by an end section of reduced diameter of a guide pin, the end section of reduced diameter having at least one groove encircling its circumference and having an O-ring engaged in the groove. The press pin, wrist pin and guide pin engage together to form a substantially rectilinear rod-like structure, enabling the wrist pin to be inserted through the shaft of the piston and eye of the connecting rod without damage to the shaft.

Abstract: A tool for straightening an arched pin into one of a pair of slots orthogonally defined in a screw head including an elongated rod-like member, means mounted on one end of the rod member for applying an axially directed force, an elongated sleeve mounting the rod-like member for reciprocal movement within the sleeve and having an end adapted to seat about the screw head, a tool handle mounted at one end of the sleeve adjacent the force applying means and a pin setting tool bit connected to an opposite end of the rod like member being indexible with one of the slots in the screw head and for delivering an impact force to the arched pin in the other screw head slot.

Abstract: An impact socket wrench provides a hammering space for generating a hammering or striking effect. The hammering space is alternatively provided by an attachment assembly fitted between a conventional wrench handle and socket head of a conventional socket wrench. The attachment assembly comprises an upper adapter and a lower adapter for mounting on a conventional socket wrench. When screwing or unscrewing a screw or the like, the hammering space of the socket wrench or attachment assembly allows the generation of a hammering or striking force without using an external force or tool such as a hammer of the like to hit the wrench handle. Both the socket wrench and attachment assembly achieve the hammering affect by utilizing a substantially diamond-shaped head pinned between the socket wrench handle and the socket head. The diamond-shaped head allows relative movement between the handle and the socket for generating hammering forces.

Abstract: Article removal apparatus having a plurality of bearing members adapted to engage the rear surface of an article to be removed from its mounting member. The bearing members are attached to or a part of a flexible belt adapted to be tightened on a peripheral surface of the article to be removed with the bearing members engaging the rear surface of the article. A slide hammer is attached to the flexible belt, so that the impact of the slide of the slide hammer is transferred to the bearing members.

Abstract: Disclosed is a system for covering installed ceiling tiles without removal of the tiles from the ceiling. The system includes a novel facing for covering an installed ceiling tile, a method of applying the facing to the face of an installed tile and apparatus for carrying out the method. The novel facing includes a panel of at least semi-rigid material having a decorative surface, an underside surface and a flexible border which extends at an angle from and about the periphery of the decorative surface. The panel's underside surface is prefit to cover the face of an installed ceiling tile and is provided with selectively located pins which project from the underside surface of the facing. The disclosed method includes providing the aforementioned decorative facing and marking the face of the tile to provide selectively located marks on the face of the tile which are capable of aligning with the facing's selectively located pins to center the facing on the tile.

Abstract: A front wheel axle pulling tool includes a clamp secured to a flexible cable and a slider hammer secured to the flexible cable by a slide nut.

Abstract: A tool for removing hinge pins from aircraft. The tool head includes a lower member having an opening adapted for the receipt of a bent end of a hinge pin. An upper member is attached to the lower member so that it may pivot to cover and uncover the opening, thus securely locking the hinge pin in the tool head. The hinge pin rests in a groove in the lower member to properly position the pin in the tool head. The upper member is locked into position over the opening by tightening a wingnut on a threaded post against the upper member. A cutout section in the upper member provides clearance for the threaded post. The tool head may be mounted on the end of a slide hammer. The slide hammer shaft is threaded, allowing a drill chuck or other heads to be attached as the head of the slide hammer for hinge pins without bent ends.

Abstract: A tool to remove the universal joint boot of a front wheel drive vehicle is disclosed. The tool includes a U-shaped yoke and two differently sized split rings which are individually secured to the U-shaped yoke. The tool further includes a driver attachment affixedly attached to the yoke to accommodate an air hammer.

Abstract: An installation tool adapted for driving leader hooks into the side of a building for supporting a leader of a gutter system is disclosed. Conventionally, leader hooks are driven by means of a projecting shoulder using a hammer or other such compressive tool. The difficulty in installing these leader hooks has arisen as a result of the shoulder being relatively narrow and difficult to engage with blows of a compression tool. To this end, the installation tool is in the nature of a cap adapted to receive the head and shoulder of leader hooks having rectangular or circular-shaped heads. The installation tool, by being adapted to accommodate either shape, avoids the necessity of having to maintain a separate tool for each shape leader hook.

Abstract: A centering pin having a head, round shaft and tapered, ovaloid point is disclosed. Opposing sides of said tapered point are symmetrical such that the radius of each is equal to the radius of the round shaft of the pin. The tapered pin point can readily be inserted into partially aligned holes in metal plates, leather straps, etc. that are to be connected and secured by said pin. A cotter pin or the like is inserted into an aperture on the shaft adjacent the tapered point to securely position the pin once it is passed through the holes of the items being connected.

Abstract: An air turning vane assembly in which the vanes are attached to rail tabs by integral locking clips formed upon the rail tabs. The rail assembly is constructed from nestable rails having cutout portions to receive the tabs of similar rails to permit compact nesting. A locking tool has a cutting tooth which cuts a ribbon in a vane wall to form an integral locking clip for securing the vanes to the rails.

Abstract: The disclosed crimping tool has two faces substantially normal to one another across an interior corner, which fit then against and over a corner bead piece, which in turn is positioned against and over an exterior structural corner of meeting plasterboard sheets. A post extends rearwardly away from the faces, and a striker is mounted to move on the post. A crimping pin is carried relative to each face, connected at their remote ends to the striker, and connected relative to the frame by means of a shaft fitting through an angled slot in each crimping pin. As arranged, each crimping pin is operable to move from one axial position with a die end recessed behind the faces to another axial position with the die end projected forwardly beyond the faces. The crimping pins are angled relative to one another and relative to each respective tool face.

Abstract: A tool for mounting the valve assemblies of an engine block, each valve assembly being of the type comprising a valve with an elongated stem, a compression spring surrounding the valve stem, with one end abutting the engine block and the other end abutting a spring retainer, a segmental keeper engagable in an annular groove in the valve stem and maintaining the spring retainer in position on the valve stem, and an oil sealing ring mounted in an annular groove in the valve stem and sealingly engaging the spring retainer. The tool comprises a body portion having a free end and a working end. An axial bore extends inwardly of the working end and is of such diameter as to just nicely receive the free end of the valve stem.

Abstract: A rivet removal tool for removing semi-tubular rivets from a workpiece. The tool has a punch head whose hemispherical tip bottoms within the rivet cavity to provide alignment therewith, and a shoulder whose edge shears the enlarged end of the aligned rivet.