Abstract: A hand seaming tool for use during original installation or re-roofing of roof panels of a building. A pair of main body elements, a pair of interconnected intermediate body elements, handle structure, limit structure, and an anvil head and forming bar all cooperate to permit an operator and user of the device to perform double seaming of the edge flanges of adjacent roof panels. Preferably, such operation occurs during initial starting of the double seaming and/or the final completion of such double seaming operation. A motorized roof seamer is normally used for the intermediate portion between the beginning and ending double seamed areas.

Abstract: Apparatus for the hydroplastic processing of tubular products which finishes the inner surfaces of such products while attaining exact outer dimensions thereof. The apparatus employs a vertical hydraulic press having a movable slide and a work table therebeneath. To the slide there is attached a device for the hydroplastic processing of tubular products, and on the workpiece of the press there is secured a positioning fixture bearing at least one die adapted to have a billet introduced thereinto. Secured to the slide of the press is a carrying plate and beneath the carrying plate and spaced therefrom there is a base plate upon which there are mounted a vertical broaching rod and, laterally spaced therefrom, a knockout rod.

Abstract: A method of aligning a sprung vehicle door without removing the door from its hinge and door frame comprises opening the vehicle door, positioning a prying tool having a head means for engaging the hinge between the door and door frame, engaging a portion of the hinge in the head means, and rotating the tool in a direction of closure of the door so as to bend one of the hinge and door frame to a predetermined alignment position. A vehicle door aligning tool for carrying out the aforementioned method comprises a specialized form of handle and head member. The handle is arranged to extend laterally behind the vehicle door when the head member is fitted on the hinge. The handle includes an elongated handle portion and a relatively much shorter end portion obtusely angled from the handle portion. The head member is J-shaped to define a channel normal to the handle portion for receiving an exposed margin or flange of a vehicle door hinge mount to rigidly engage the hinge mount.

Abstract: A hand-operated tool for straightening a bent body of a sickle guard has an elongated handle supporting a shroud and fulcrum member. The fulcrum member connected to the end of the handle has spaced projections providing a recess for accommodating a portion of the sickle guard. The shroud adjustably mounted on the handle adjacent the fulcrum member has a converging pocket for accommodating the body of the bent guard so that, on movement of the handle, the shroud supplies force to the bent body of the guard to straighten the bent body and align the guard with the sickle. A releasable fastener secures the shroud in an adjusted position on the handle.

Abstract: A panel straightening apparatus includes a first dent engaging member having a pointed-tip spike portion to be driven through the dent in an automotive body panel. A second leverage member is then engaged with the first member and leverage is applied to move the dented area into substantial alignment with the panel surface. The second member includes a lever arm curved to permit engagement with the first member at various heights above the panel. The first member includes a handhold for use without the lever arm.

Abstract: An improved tool is described having particular utility as a dent pulling tool for removing dents from automobile bodies and the like. The tool includes a cylinder mounted on a shank. The cylinder may be oriented parallel to the shank to permit it to be inserted through a hole in the metal to be straightened. Then the cylinder is tilted perpendicular to the shank by means of a rod. A sheath is slidably mounted on the shank below the cylinder and it is adapted to prevent the hole from closing around the shank as the metal is pulled outward.

Abstract: A working mandrel is composed of several similar sections, each having a working surface on the body thereof. The leading end of each section has a socket, while the trailing one has a projecting portion of a similar configuration for jointing the sections during the rolling step. Rolling is effected on the working mandrel assembled in a head-to-tail fashion and after the rolling cycle is terminated the leading section is transferred to the mandrel cooling and lubricating line and then, cooled and suitably lubricated, is positioned in front of the first roll stand, while the other sections remain between the first and the last roll stands. Put into position in front of the multistand mill may be a previously prepared section instead of that transferred to the mandrel cooling and lubricating line.

Abstract: This auto body dent removing puller and anchor may be inserted through a drilled hole or existing hole in the body of automobiles or other vehicles. The hole having to be only as large as the modified cylinder shaped part of the tool. It can be made in various lengths and diameters. Once inserted this uniquely modified cylinder shaped portion may be tipped by a rod attached to the outside of the tool and to the cylinder allowing a flattened V-shaped surface area to abut against the inside of the material for the purpose of pulling a damaged area out with common pulling devices or with an impacting device such as a slide hammer. Once the damaged area is pulled out it may be removed from the hole easily by the same rod it was tipped with after being inserted.

Abstract: A mandrel for the production of internally threaded tubes or cylinders by the cold forging of a forging blank (3) around an externally threaded mandrel (2). The mandrel is formed with a conicity of 0.2-1.0% or preferably 0.4-0.7% and the flanks of the mandrel's threads can be ground so that the thread width is least at the mandrel's narrow end. The reduction of flank width can be 0.1-0.4% of preferably 0.2-0.3% for a length unit of the mandrel with the above named conicity. Preferably even the inner diameter of the mandrel's thread is made 0-0.5% less than the required inside diameter in the tube's or cylinder's thread.

Abstract: A hand held tool having a round body with one end containing a stepped plug in cylindrical form. The plug conforming to the inside diameter of an electrical connector with an internal hollow providing clearance for projections within the connector. The body further having an opening surrounding the plug forming a diametrical cavity corresponding to the outside diameter of an electrical connector. When inserted into a connector, the tool forces the walls of the device into alignment straightening them into functional tolerance. The body also contains a handle for operator convenience in either a tee shape, a raised head or a shank separating the gripping handle from the body.

Abstract: An extruder for the formation of a branch on a pipe comprises two arms and a mandrel. The arms are cranked and are pivoted to one another. The extruder is suitable for use when it is desired to connect a branch pipe to a main pipe.

Abstract: Apparatus for aligning an associated vehicle door with the cooperating portions of an associated vehicle body includes a lever and structure for engaging a lock pin on the door jamb of the associated vehicle body carried on the lever at a first axial location. The structure for engaging an associated door lock of the associated door is carried on the lever at a second axial location which is spaced from the first axial location. The structure for engaging a lock pin may comprise a generally arcuate recess and the generally arcuate recess may be generally C-shaped, with opposed spaced sides, and include a notch in the arcuate recess disposed in opposed relationship to an opening between the opposed sides of the recess. The structure for engaging the lock pin may include a tongue having an arcuate recess extending along at least one side thereof.

Abstract: A tool for recontouring metal such as dents in the body of an automobile, for use in conjunction with an electrical welding apparatus, including a shaft on which a weight reciprocates, the weight being permitted to selectively collide with structure provided by the shaft to impart a force to the shaft along the longitudinal axis thereof, a portion of the shaft being electrically conductive and electrically connected to the electrical welding apparatus, the electrically conductive portion of the shaft for contacting the metal surface to be straightened, activation of the electrical welding apparatus welding the electrically conductive portion of the shaft to the surface to be straightened so that the forces transferred to the shaft by the weight can act upon the surface to be straightened.

Abstract: An extrusion punch, especially for use in a back extrusion process, wherein a hard wear resistant material is joined on one end to a steel punch body. The hard wear resistant material is joined on at the tip of a steel body so as to prevent wear due to abrasion on the punch caused by the material being extruded in a die means. The hard wear resistant end cap on the tip of the steel body is joined so that it may easily and quickly be replaced when the punch is in position on the machine thereby providing less down time for maintenance on the extrusion press. The method of joining the hard wear resistant end cap to the steel body minimizes the conditions which tend to fracture hard wear resistant material.

Abstract: A metal rivet, a two-piece rivet assembly, and a joint including the assembly. The metal rivet includes a preformed head at one end of a solid shank. At the other end there is a tubular upsettable portion which is circularly cylindrical with a recess which terminates at a base opening at said other end of the solid shank. The tubular upsettable portion is so proportioned as to form a proper upset head. At least a part of a core pin fits in the tubular upsettable portion and is retained therein after the rivet is set. During setting it prevent internal buckling of the tubular upsettable portion, and after setting it reinforces the upset head to prevent rollout as a consequence of axial separative forces. As an optional feature, at the terminal part of the forming of the upset head, the core pin can be pressed against the base to swell the solid shank and create a closer, or even an interference, fit for the shank in a workpiece.

Abstract: A pulling tool including a first pulling member which is essentially a rectangular-shaped flat bar of heavy metal having a pair of holes formed in it in spaced apart relationship. Affixed to one face of this flat bar is a pulling bar which likewise is a heavy metal material and which has a hole in it whereby a hydraulic jack or the like can be attached to the first pulling member. The pulling tool also includes a second generally U-shaped pulling member having a straight portion and a pair of legs which are spaced apart a distance corresponding to the distance between the two holes in the flat bar of the first pulling member, and a handle. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, both of the pair of legs are threaded to receive a threaded nut, with the first and second pulling members being affixed together by extending the two legs of the second pulling member through the two apertures in the first pulling member, and then threadedly affixing the nuts on the legs.

Abstract: A lathekin for use in stain glass window construction and the like has a handle with a blade attached to one end. The blade has a main convex edge which is doubly beveled. Spaced along the edge are two pairs of transverse projections. The transverse projections each have a tapered leading edge and a tapered trailing edge on either side of a peak. The peak extends from the edge of the blade inwardly to at least the depth of the channel of the came used in stained glass panel construction. The blade has a trailing edge which is also doubly beveled and which extends from a substantially normal intersection with the main blade edge to form a concave curve with the handle. On the opposite side of the handle is a concave upper edge which intersects with the main blade edge to form a point. A second blade is transversely mounted on the opposite end of the handle.

Abstract: An elongated base is provided including a pair of opposite side opposing abutment surfaces disposed in a plane extending therebetween transversely of the base. A pair of elongated longitudinal side-by-side levers are disposed between the abutment surfaces and include opposite end portions projecting from opposite sides of the aforementioned plane. A first pair of end portions define opposing jaw faces for clamping an auto body portion therebetween and anchor structure is carried by the base for applying a pulling force thereon in a direction opposite to the direction in which the first end portions project. Wedge structure is shiftably supported from the base between the second end portions of the levers and operable to selectively wedge the second end portions apart and thereby cause the levers to fulcrum on the abutment surfaces to swing the first pair of end portions toward each other.

Abstract: A thin-walled metal tube includes a tubular nipple section, a shoulder section joined to the nipple section, a tubular barrel section and a border section connecting the shoulder and barrel sections, the barrel section being defined by a wall having a thickness in the range of between about 20 microns and about 70 microns. The border section includes a region which changes in thickness, the wall thickness of the border section being greater than the thickness of the wall defining the barrel section and the thickness changing region having a cross-section having either an arcuate or a tapered region.

Abstract: An elongated base if provided including a pair of opposite side opposing fulcrum surfaces disposed in a plane extending therebetween transversely of the base. A pair of elongated longitudinal side-by-side levers are disposed between the fulcrum surfaces and include opposite end portions projecting from opposite sides of the aforementioned plane. A first pair of end portions define opposing jaw faces for clamping an auto body portion therebetween and anchor structure is carried by the base for applying a pulling force thereon in a direction opposite to the direction in which the first end portions project.

Abstract: A tool for straightening indentations in sheet metal has a pair of levers each having first and second legs disposed angularly to one another and a pivot pin for journally mounting the levers together for pivotable movement about the pin. The levers may be pivoted from a position in which the axes of the first legs are superposed upon each other for insertion of both first legs simultaneously into a hole formed in the sheet metal for receiving the legs. The levers may then be pivoted to a second position in which the first legs face in opposite directions from the pivot pin and engage the sheet metal about the hole. In one embodiment the axes of the second legs in the second position are disposed angularly to one another and a spreader member is removably secured to the legs. A clevis member being secured to the spreader member for application of a pulling force. In two other embodiments the axes of the second legs are superposed upon each other and a clevis member is directly removably secured to both legs.

Abstract: Apparatus that is used to expand a collapsed hollow core of a damaged roll which includes an expandable bullet, uniformly expandable along its length by hydraulic cylinders, after being pulled into the core by means of a hollow piston ram and a drawbar. The bullet has an unexpanded cross-section of a football-like shape the area of which is about 10% less than the cross-sectional area of the hole in the undeformed core, allowing over expansion of the bullet which pulls the sides of the core in to form connecting chords. Add-on shells for larger cores are adaptable to the expandable base bullet.

Abstract: Clamping apparatus for transmitting a traction force to a metallic workpiece, such as an automobile body or the like, for deforming the same includes a frame including a clamping head housing portion having a cylindrical cavity formed therein, a clamping head assembly including a clamping head body having a cylindrical section and a pair of jaw portions, the cylindrical section portion of the clamping head body having a circumferentially extending groove formed therein with which is aligned the shank portion of a set screw which extends through the clamping head housing portion to fix the clamping head assembly, which is otherwise rotatable within the housing, with respect to the frame. The frame is provided with three appropriately formed areas for attaching a pulling bridle thereto for selectively applying a traction force either in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the clamping jaw portions, parallel to the plane thereof or in a direction 45.degree. to the plane thereof.

Abstract: This invention consists of a tool for use in repairing or refinishing dented material, the tool having a shaft with an interchangeable weighted head, a slidable weight or hammer, and a handle. A small hole, slightly larger than the size of the cross-sectional dimension of the interchangeable weighted head, is drilled in the dented material and the weighted head is inserted therethrough. The weighted end will rotate the head when it has passed through and cleared the hole, and the head thus forms an "inboard" anvil for applying a pulling force on the dent in the material.

Abstract: A wall lining sheet, particularly, but not exclusively, for lining the interior end walls of freight railway cars. The wall lining sheet comprises a metal sheet having a plurality of spaced-apart attachment tabs each defined by a configured slot extending through the sheet. Each of the tabs has a bendable free end portion whereby the bendable free end portion may be displaced outwardly from the plane of the sheet. The wall lining is particularly useful in relining the interior surface of corrugated end walls of freight railway cars after the end wall has been deformed and reshaped substantially to its original state.

Abstract: A dent straightening tool having a manually graspable handle affixed to one end of an elongate shaft and a work piece engaging, helically threaded member affixed to the opposite end of the shaft. The threaded member has a substantially constant radius root with a blunt tip provided at the distal end of the root. The thread begins from a minimum radius at the blunt tip and then progressively increases in radius along the length of the root to attain a size substantially larger than the radius of the root so that the depth of the thread is substantially deeper than the radius of the root. Also, the flat length of the thread, as measured along the root, is at least one-half of the pitch length of the thread.

Abstract: A tool is described for forming a rivet head in a shank portion opposite the manufactured head of a rivet of the type often used in the aircraft industry including a base and plunger for backing the shank portion with movement of the plunger responsive to impact of a rivet gun on the manufactured head opposite the shank.

Abstract: A system for aligning and regapping the guide grooves on a chain saw guide bar which includes a suitably adapted handheld swaging tool uniquely designed to return bent or worn guide grooves to the correct position and separation. The swaging tool contains a gauge which is adapted to fit in the center of the bar guide groove and a pair of swaging plates which are adapted to force the walls of the bar guide groove into proper relationship with one another upon the application of force to the swaging tool. The system may optionally further include a bar file guide which is adapted to file the peripheral edges of the chain saw bar.

Abstract: A rotary piercing tool for forming, in a metal plate or the wall of a metal tube, by pressure and friction-generated heat a bossed hole, said tool comprising a tapered active end portion at one end, a shank for its attachment in a chuck of a machine tool at the other end and a coaxial cavity extending from the free end of said shank to a place at a given distance from the free end of said active end portion.

Abstract: A method of tube drawing a cold finished stepped internal diameter tube utilizing a novel mandrel plug having compound working surfaces designed to automatically adjust to the varying internal diameters formed in a tube hollow to be worked as it is drawn through a die.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the interior or exterior surface smoothness of a tube shell during cold draw operations is disclosed wherein the final reduction of the tube shell is completed within the die land.

Abstract: A reverse bending tool for bending a workpiece bent at a right angle to a reverse curve has a support angle iron and a guide angle iron forming an enclosed space of rectangular cross-section therebetween and extending along the lengths thereof. A shaping member is secured in the space between the support and guide angle irons. The workpiece is drawn between the shaping member and inner surfaces of plates of the support and guide angle irons.

Abstract: A rivet anvil for replacing rivets holding sickles, such as on hay and grass mowers, combines, and other machinery, while in the field, has a base with an upstanding rod. A rivet seat is formed in the top of the rod and is sized to accept and hold a rivet head while its post is peened. The anvil is relatively lightweight and can be carried with the machine.

Abstract: A pneumatically driven, impact-actuated auto body dent puller has a cylindrical slide weight coaxially movable along a slide shaft for impact against an abutment collar near one end thereof, the slide member being slidably enclosed within a tubular cylinder member having free fitting caps at each end and provided with a through opening near one end connected with a manually controlled valve for impressing a blast of pressurized air behind the slide weight when disposed at the forward end of the slide shaft for projecting the slide weight rearwardly against the abutment collar through the interposed rear end cap, thereby imposing a rearward striking force upon a sheet-metal screw secured at the forward end of the slide shaft which is removably receivable within a punched opening in the dented zone of an area of sheet metal to be repaired.

Abstract: A split punch tool for cooperating with a die block to form the wall of a drawn and ironed container is disclosed herein. The split punch or cooperating die includes a female portion that has a peripheral lip that can be placed in overhanging relation to the periphery of the die block and the female portion has a peripheral ledge which extends perpendicular to the direction of movement of the die block and die with respect to each other and also an inclined surface extending from the inner edge of the ledge or inwardly directed surface. The surfaces are adapted to engage mating surfaces defined on the end of a cylindrical member that forms part of the cooperating die so that the ledge defines a perpendicular support for the cylindrical member.

Abstract: A pulling tool which comprises a pulling bar which, in a simple form, comprises an L-shaped length of tool steel rod and a pulling hook which comprises a length of tool steel rod having a hook formed in one end thereof for hooking the pulling hook with one leg of the pulling bar. The opposite end of the pulling hook can be adapted to have coupling means affixed to it for pulling on the pulling hook.To use the pulling tool, two holes are drilled in the body of the vehicle in the damaged area, and in spaced apart relationship. One leg of the L-shaped pulling bar is inserted through one of the holes, and the pulling bar is manipulated so that the leg extended through the hole extends substantially parallel with the surface contour of the body of the vehicle, and so as to project towards the second hole drilled in the body. The hook on the pulling hook then is extended through the other hole formed in the body of the vehicle and hooked with the leg of the pulling bar.

Abstract: A sheet metal working tool for turning an edge of sheet metal perpendicular to the main portion of the sheet metal and for opening Pittsburgh locks formed in said metal.

Abstract: A mandrel assembly for expanding holes through work pieces including a helically wound coil member with interconnected helical flights and a support member with the support member supporting the flights of the coil member so that the leadingmost flight has a first effective outside diameter smaller than the initial hole diameter and at least one of the flights trailing the leadingmost flight has a second effective outside diameter larger than the first outside diameter of the leadingmost flight. The support member may be a threaded fastener supporting the flights of the coil member by its threads or have a tapered support section to support the coil member. The method of using the mandrel assembly is contemplated.

Abstract: A work performing member in the nature of a tool or die component comprised of multiple axially related parts including one element which has a work performing end and a shank end and a second element capping the shank end and forming an extension thereof as well as forming thereon a head. The shank end of the one element and the head provided by the other are so formed to effectively and simply key together in an unmistakable fashion whereby to prevent rotation of one relative the other and means are provided for interconnection of the head element to the shank end of the other element in a manner to achieve a pressured connection thereof. Said head element, in a preferred embodiment is further characterized by a form emphasizing the pressured and precisely related disposition of the elements in the connection thereof by the positioning thereof through the medium of alignment pins utilizing means and methods such as described in the U.S. Letters Pat. No. 3,797,352.

Abstract: An improved apparatus for repairing indentions in a rigid skin, the apparatus comprising frame means supportingly holding backup means positioned to rest on a portion of the skin in close proximity to the indention, chuck means slidingly supported by the frame means to grippingly hold and movably position a dent engaging member contacting the indented portion of the skin. Retract means move the chuck means in a direction to pull the dented skin towards the backup means. In the preferred embodiment, the backup means comprise an apertured base plate contoured to matingly match the contour of the rigid skin in close proximity to the indention, a portion of the dentengaging member clearingly extending through the aperture.

Abstract: An impact tool for dressing metal sheets, particularly for repairing damaged vehicle bodies, has a tool carrier, in a bore of which there are guided at least two jaws separated from each other in the rest position of the tool by resilient elements, e.g. springs or rubber elements. The jaws are guided for a limited stroke between a rigid abutment formed by the front face of the tool carrier and a stop formed by a bolt fixed to the tool carrier and intersecting holes of the stems of the jaws with play. The jaws are loaded by at least one resilient element, e.g. a helical spring, abutted with its one end against the end of the bore of the tool carrier and with its other end against the inner end of each jaw. Surfaces having portions diverging in direction to the outer ends of the jaws force the jaws radially inwardly when the jaws hit the metal sheet to be treated.

Abstract: A hinge adjustment tool for use on self-closing hinges for kitchen cabinets has the form of a bar of hot rolled steel in which end portions of the bar are displaced out of the plane of the intermediate portion of the bar in opposite directions at an angle of about 45.degree. by a cold bending operation, the end portions each having a slot opening to one of its longitudinal edges and facing in opposite directions, and with the end portions of the tool being hardened by heat treatment.

Abstract: A hammer for use in sheet metal working has a handle and a hammer head having at one end face a plurality of circumferentially inclined face sections and an adapter having at the rear thereof inclined face sections complementary to the first inclined face sections for causing the adapter to rotate by sliding along both inclined face sections. The hammer head and the adapter are encircled by an elastic tubular sleeve member or coil spring for rotably connecting said head and adapter and for elastically holding said adapter in a return position with respect to the rotation to be caused at the time of striking. On the striking face of the adapter, there may be provided a plurality of projecting stripes.