Abstract: A brake adjuster tool including a set of dies and a pneumatic press for assembly and disassembly of a main landing gear brake adjuster. The assembly operation requires only two steps saving considerable time while presetting the adjuster pin automatically on assembly. The brake adjuster tool includes a pneumatic cylinder or diaphragm, control valve and air regulator and provides a mechanical pressure of up to 400 pounds with a linear travel of 4 inches which is needed to perform the operation.

Abstract: A tool and method are disclosed for removing a valve core or element from a valve which is under pressure without requiring that the system be shut down and the pressure relieved. A tool having a passage therethrough sized to accommodate the valve element to be serviced is bolted over the valve and the valve element is drawn therein and the tool closed to isolate the passage and the element from the pressurized system thereby allowing the element to be repaired or replaced.

Abstract: A fuel rod puller in the form of a collet for pulling fuel rods from a storage area into grids of a nuclear reactor fuel assembly. The rod puller moves longitudinally through the grids to a storage area where projections on the end of leaf springs grasp onto an end plug in a fuel rod. Drive apparatus then pulls the rod puller and connected fuel rod from the storage area into the fuel assembly grids. The rod puller includes an outer tube having leaf springs on one end thereof in one modification, mounted within the outer tube is a movable plunger which acts to urge the leaf springs outwardly to a position to permit passing or with the end of a end plug. Upon withdrawal of the plunger, the leaf springs move into a groove formed in the end of a fuel rod end plug, and the fuel rod subsequently is pulled into the fuel assembly grids.

Abstract: A tool for removing sleeves from cylinders having an unrestricted opening at one end and a restricted opening at the other end. A stabilizer or guide rod device having a disc with a diameter closely approaching the internal diameter of the sleeve is placed adjacent a shoulder of the sleeve with a further disc used as a stabilizer within the sleeve. From the restricted opening of the cylinder housing having an internal diameter less than the diameter of the sleeve a plurality of radial or pie-shaped collar segments are inserted and placed on top of the stabilizer support disc and fitting over the shoulder of the sleeve. A pusher rod is inserted through the restricted opening of the cylinder and connected to the stabilizer support disc with apparatus for clamping the collar segments thereto. The pusher rod with the clamped collar segments extending over the shoulder of the sleeve in clamped relation is moved or pushed to force the sleeve out of frictional engagement with the cylinder and is removed therefrom.

Abstract: A tool for pulling a speed reduction unit from a drive shaft includes a puller plate that has outwardly extending flanges adapted to be placed in a groove formed in the internal surface of a tubular mounting sleeve of the reduction unit so that, when a threaded rod is threaded through the plate to extend into the sleeve and the inner end of the rod abuts the end of the drive shaft on which the tubular sleeve is mounted, continued threading of the rod into the mounting sleeve causes the plate to react against the wall of the groove and force the mounting sleeve and the reduction unit carried thereby off the drive shaft.

Abstract: The tool is useful for the replacement of the lateral control torque tube bearings on high performance aircraft. The bearings are pulled into position into the bulkhead in a straight line thereby preventing them from becoming jammed because of the angle of the bulkhead surface into which the bearings are to be installed. The tool self-aligns the bearings without putting pressure on the bearing race thereby preventing the possibility of damage to the bearing and since the use of a shoulder driver and hammer are no longer required, damage to the bearing and/or aircraft is virtually eliminated.

Abstract: An improved tool construction for removing spindles from axle shafts by use of a slide hammer which exerts an axial pull on the spindle to dislodge it from an axle housing. The tool is a section of cylindrical thick-wall tubing or pipe which forms a housing, one end of which is open and the other end having an end wall attached thereto. A circular opening is formed in the end wall and is concentric to the cylindrical tubing. A pair of bolt-receiving lugs are mounted at diametrically opposite locations on the tubing at the open end thereof. The outer end of a spindle is inserted through the opening formed in the end wall of the housing and the spindle nuts are reinstalled on the spindle and are adapted to abuttingly engage the inside surface of the housing end wall. A plate is attached to one end of the slide hammer and is mounted on the open end of the housing by a pair of bolts engaged in the housing lugs.

Abstract: Apparatus for extracting tubes from the tube sheets of a heat exchanger is provided which is particularly suitable for the removal of tubes of small internal diameter and which includes a tube pulling dart having a tapered threaded end for engagement within the tube and a sleeve secured thereto for automatic attachment of a power operated pulling mechanism. The threads on the dart preferably have a right triangular cross section with vertical faces for applying the load from the threads onto the tube to be extracted. In another embodiment the attachment is manual.

Abstract: A universal tool for installing and removing hubs on a shaft having a threaded end portion. The assembled tool comprises a support member, a reversible member, a bearing and a plug. The reversible member includes an integral drive and bearing support portion intermediate its ends with an externally threaded removal portion on one end of the reversible member and an installing guide portion on the other end thereof.

Abstract: A multi-function hydraulic tool especially intended for use in automobile servicing operations comprises a hydraulic cylinder housing a piston. At least one arm is secured to the outside of the cylinder and projects axially therefrom. A seating is secured to the arm forwardly of the open end of the cylinder so as to support one member when axial force is applied by the piston to a different cooperating member so as to cause relative movement of such members. The tool can be used for a variety of purposes, for example, for removing a bearing from a shaft and its arm is usefully releasably secured to the cylinder.

Abstract: A pulling tool of generally elongated shape operable by hydraulic pressure to pull force-fitted elements from an anchorage, such as cups from the arms of universal joints. At the forward end there is a gripping sleeve to be located around the element, a retaining sleeve to be located about the gripping sleeve and a reaction sleeve around the retaining sleeve. Interaction of the walls of the gripping sleeve and retaining sleeve cause transverse contraction of the gripping sleeve about the element as the hydraulic pressure pulls the gripping sleeve rearwardly. An ejector pin urges the element longitudinally from the tool after the arms constituting the gripping sleeve open, which occurs due to differing radial forces applied on the gripping sleeve as it moves rearwardly. The leading edge of the reaction sleeve reacts against the anchorage from which the element is pulled.

Abstract: A bearing carrier puller for outboard motors including a generally bell shaped puller block, the large end face of which provides a plurality of concentric grooves for selective seated engagement about a peripheral ridge defining an opening about the propeller shaft in the lower unit of an outboard motor. An elongated exteriorly threaded sleeve extends through the bell shaped puller block with an inner end thereof seated against the thrust hub of the propeller shaft and a nut is threaded on the sleeve outwardly of the smaller outer end of the puller block with a thrust washer interposed therebetween. Outwardly of the nut a ring member is secured to the sleeve by a plurality of set screws and an elongated handle extends radially outwardly from the ring for abutting engagement with an above portion of the motor housing.

Abstract: The apparatus of the invention comprises a gear puller assembly with removable jaws adapted to be extended around the teeth of the gear to be pulled from a shaft, and screw means capable of exerting pressure required to pull the gear.The method of the invention includes the steps of positioning a first puller jaw affixed to the gear puller assembly around a portion of a gear press-fitted onto a shaft, positioning a second puller jaw around a remaining portion of the gear and affixing the second puller jaw to the gear puller assembly, then applying the force necessary to pull the gear.

Abstract: A shaft puller is provided for extracting a shaft having a threaded end exposed from a surround structure. The puller includes a housing having a threaded bore therethrough with the threads being of an opposite hand from the threads of the shaft. The puller also includes a spindle member having external threads which threadably engage the bore of the housing. The spindle member also has a bore therethrough to permit engagement of the spindle member and housing onto the shaft. With the spindle member engaged into the housing, the spindle is placed over the shaft and a nut, normally received on the shaft, engaged thereon against the end surface of the spindle member. By turning the spindle member in a direction to advance the nut on the shaft, the spindle member turns out of the housing to extract the shaft from its surround structure by acting between a reaction face on the surround structure and the nut on the shaft.

Abstract: A cylinder lock removal tool comprises a generally cup-shaped casing having an annular side wall and an end wall with the annular side wall defining a generally cylindrical bore. A cylindrical collet sized to be received within the casing bore has a set of radially spaced resilient fingers extending from a collet base. A sleeve has an interior cylindrical surface sized to be slid over and in sliding engagement with the collet fingers and base, and an exterior cylindrical surface sized to be received within the casing annular wall. The tool also includes a threaded bolt for drawing the collet and sleeve into the casing bore.

Abstract: A clutch spring compressor tool for use in removing an annular clutch piston from the interior of a tubular transmission housing by axially moving the clutch piston to compress circumferentially spaced axially extending springs, normally urging it into a first position away from that first position, to a second position, to create a space to gain access to remove a C-ring spring captivatingly securing the clutch piston within the tubular housing; wherein the tool is composed of a base sized to overlay one end of the transmission housing and it includes a fixed upstanding threaded shaft to extend into the tubular housing and through the clutch piston; and wherein it further includes a ring body movable along the shaft and the ring body has a pusher surface sized to overlay and register with a depressible keeper ring normally holding the clutch piston in the first axial position; and an operator threadably engaged on the shaft for applying axial pressure to the ring body to axially move it and thereby the keepe

Abstract: A tool for dismantling a locking ring consisting of an annular portion having a plurality of radially projecting circumferentially spaced locking tongues for supporting a bearing element such as a ring in an opening in a housing or the like. The annular portion of the locking ring seats against the axial end face of the bearing element and the tongues wedge against the sidewall of the housing at an angle. The dismantling tool comprises a generally disc-like member having a circumferential rib depending from one axial face thereof adapted to abut the annular portion of the locking ring radially inwardly of the locking tongues. An outer member overlies the disc-like member and has a depending flange closely circumscribing the outer sidewall of the disc member of a diameter slightly smaller than the opening in the housing.

Abstract: A handy tool is disclosed which forcibly withdraws a lock cylinder out from its housing by using means which engages underneath an outside flange on the lock cylinder and exerts a pulling force thereon.

Abstract: A manually operable clutch assembly-disassembly tool that is utilized with multiple plate, fluid-actuated-type clutches wherein it is necessary to compress a piston return spring so as to permit either the insertion or removal of a snap ring in assembling and disassembling of the clutch, with the tool being affixable to the clutch and having an inner annular member that is axially displaceable, via displacement means, relative to an outer annular member attached to the clutch drum, thereby compressing the piston return spring and permitting insertion or removal of the snap ring.

Abstract: A bushing service tool adapted to replace aligned bushings without risk of distorting or damaging the bushing support structure. The tool includes a nut equipped bolt having a close fit through a plurality of bushings and a cooperating strut member sized to have a snug fit between and to rigidify the adjacent sides of the bushing support structure during use of the tool.

Abstract: The invention is a means for removing an often noisy and troublesome upper spin tube bearing used in a Speed Queen washer and comprises an elongated rigid sheath configured to fit over the spin tube bearing housing, the sheath having a central threaded shaft extending therethrough to extend into the bearing housing and through the annular spin tube bearing, the bearing being removed by means of a pressure disc threaded on the shaft beneath the bearing and drawn upwardly by rotating a nut on an upper portion of the shaft.

Abstract: An extractor for the barrel lock of a kilowatt-hour meter comprises four components. A first component is a member having a threaded shank and an enlarged head. The head has a recess of circular cross-section the diameter of which corresponds to the outside diameter of the head of the barrel lock which is to be extracted. A pair of holes in diametral alignment are provided in the head of the extractor member adapted, when the head of the barrel lock is received within the recess of the extractor member, to register with the seal-wire opening in the head of the barrel lock. A second component, namely, a retaining pin, is inserted into the registered holes to retain the extractor member on the barrel lock. A third component is a sleeve having at its forward end a recess the shape and size of which correspond to the outside shape and size of the head of the first extractor member.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing an ignition key or lock cylinder containing a shaft. A collet assembly which can grasp an ignition key cylinder or lock cylinder is also mounted on the shaft. An annulus is mounted on the collet assembly for maintaining a secure engagement on the ignition key cylinder and a casing is mounted over the collet assembly shaft and annulus.

Abstract: A method is provided for partially densifying a selected surface portion of a sintered porous powder metal element while applying restraining pressure to other selected portions of said element in order to inhibit growth and cracking of said element during the partial cold deformation thereof. The method is particularly applicable to the production of annular bearing rings.

Abstract: A tool is provided for inserting bearings comprising a plurality of expandable segments, a shaft having a cam means attached thereto said cam means including means for expanding each of said expandable segments radially outwardly from said shaft, wherein the expandable segments have at least one flange portion for abutting a bearing race and driving the bearing race into position such that expansion of the expandable segments increases the distance of said flange portion of each expandable segment radially outwardly from said shaft and adapts said flange portions for abutting engagement with various diameter bearing races. In this manner, a single tool can drive a number of different diameter bearing races without removing and reattaching parts.

Abstract: A hydraulic lifter extracting tool including a gripping assembly made up of cylindrical sectors dimensioned to engage the lifter to be extracted not only axially but radially, the quadrants having a conical bore for engagement by a suitably configured actuator point.

Abstract: A lock cylinder assembly is removed from a steering column by means of a tool incorporating a collet member having a plurality of spring fingers which grip the end of the lock cylinder and a body member having a cylindrical flange which fits between the end of the collet and the supporting structure surrounding the lock to hold the fingers in engagement with the lock cylinder as a bolt is tightened to pull the collet into the body.

Abstract: The disclosure is of an assembly and method for inserting and withdrawing the piston component of a disc brake assembly. The assembly comprises a base plate adapted to be secured to the brake assembly housing whereby a movable shaft, mounted on the base plate, is positioned above the piston and in axial alignment therewith. An endpiece on the shaft mates with the piston for holding it during insertion or withdrawal. Mechanical means is provided to move the shaft and consequently the held piston in or out of its cylinder. The assembly and method of the invention are advantageous in that they provide a means of insertion and withdrawal of the piston component with little potential for damage to the piston or cylinder components of the brake assembly.

Abstract: A tool is disclosed which removes an automobile ignition lock of the type having a keyway and opposed radial extending ears. The tool has an inner cylindrical core with opposed recesses along its sides which engage the ears of the lock and retain the core from turning. The core contains means for securing the core to the lock by insertion of a member, such as a screw, into the keyway of the lock. A hollow cylindrical housing fits over the core, and the forward edge of the housing bears against the lock enclosure or against a collor mounted around the lock enclosure if there is insufficient bearing surface on the enclosure. The lock removal is accomplished by means, such as a threaded rod and nut, for retracting the core into the hollow housing interior. The retracting core pulls the secured lock out of the lock enclosure. Removal of the lock is accomplished without the necessity of disassembling the steering column of the automobile.

Abstract: An expander tool for truing thin walled tubing, the tool including improved means for equalizing expansion forces applied to expansion elements and other interrelated components incorporated in the tool, the tool also including improved clutch means for preventing over expansion of the tool and improved means for releasing the expansion elements and interrelated components when forces tending to expand the tool are reduced.

Abstract: A tool which obviates the necessity of disassembling the steering column of an automobile when removing the ignition lock cylinder. The tool has an inner collet with a lipped edge which engages the forward shoulder of the lock cylinder. An outer shell fits over the collet and aids the collet in gripping the shoulder. A bolt is threaded into the rear portion of the collet and extends outwardly through the rear portion of the shell. After the collet has engaged the shoulder and the outer shell is flush against the ignition lock housing, turning the bolt withdraws the collet, breaking the outer surface of the lock cylinder behind the retainer pin and freeing the cylinder so that it can be removed without difficulty.

Abstract: Removal of cartridges or cores and sleeves from valve bodies is facilitated with a tool having a threaded rod extending through a base and through a spacer which is rotatable relative to the rod and to the base. The rod is provided with a means at its end, at the side of the base toward the spacer by which the tool may be attached to the core of a valve. Rotation of the base relative to the rod draws the valve core up into the spacer whose end is placed in abutment with the valve body. The sleeve part of the valve cartridge is removed with the aid of a tube which is carried by the base and extends therefrom so that its axis is substantially parallel with the axis of the threaded rod. The end of the tube away from the base is split along its length from the end of the tube so that the tube is divided into segments which may be spread apart.

Abstract: A hand actuated swaging device for securing a metallic fitting to an end of a hose has a one-piece cast frame with an integral die support. A ball screw and ball nut assembly is supported by the frame. The screw carries a pusher which presses a fitting into a swaging die without rotation with the screw. .Iadd.A generally triangularly shaped clamp is provided which is pivotally secured at its apex to side support members and having an arcuate shaped base disposed to press the die into an opening through an end member of the frame..Iaddend.

Abstract: A hand actuated swaging device for securing a metallic fitting to an end of a hose has a one-piece cast frame with an integral die support. A ball screw and ball nut assembly is supported by the frame. The screw carries a pusher which presses a fitting into a swaging die without rotation with the screw.