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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5018228 | Brake lathe with hand-held grinder and method of grinding A hand-held grinder for applying a swirl finish to a brake disc mounted to a lathe spindle is driven through a flexible drive removably mounted to the end of the lathe spindle.... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4867021 | Tool bar assembly A boring bar assembly having a symmetrical carbide tip holder for turning a brake drum and which can be rotated 180 degrees for facing either or both sides of a rotor of a disc brake. A hexagonal bar provides a housing for receiving a depth of cut mechani... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4854199 | Portable brake disc resurfacing tool An improved portable brake disc resurfacing tool of the type which is mountable on an automobile wheel hub assembly for resurfacing brake discs without removing the disc from the automobile wheel assembly includes a generally rectangular framework having ... | 08/08/1989 |
| 4804029 | Tire bead seater A bead seating system which comprises a wheel and tire support having a small diameter central hub, a plurality of widely spaced radial clamp carrying support arms, a single, elongated air nozzle located below and in proximity to the support and a noise r... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4711325 | Wheel chock assembly A wheel chock assembly for preventing movement of a wheel relative to the surface on which it is resting includes a pair of wedge members positionable in spaced apart relation one to another and interconnected by a bar. At one end, the bar is slidingly re... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4656899 | Silencer band Opposite ends of a silencer band having a plurality of weights attached thereto are coupled together by selective engagement of a clip member and one of the silencer band weights. To effect such engagement, the clip member comprises a connection portion i... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4643055 | Lathe spindle assembly A spindle assembly for a metal working lathe includes a generally cylindrical spindle body having a forward end and a rearward end and an internal bore extending longitudinally thereof. An arbor having a forward end connectable to a workpiece is insertabl... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4615152 | Cylinder hone A rotary cylinder hone includes an elongate drive shank connected to a carrier arm holder which supports a plurality of arm assemblies having abrasive units carried at the ends thereof. Each arm assembly has a pair of flanges formed at the end opposite th... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4546548 | Device and method for measuring steering axis inclination or a steerable wheel A device and method for measuring the steering axis inclination of a steerable wheel is disclosed. The device includes an adaptor for mounting a caster-camber gauge to the wheel in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the wheel. The method inc... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4510828 | Lathe cross feed assembly A lathe having a cross feed assembly including a universal tool post for simultaneously mounting a boring bar and two face cutters is disclosed. The universal tool post provides for changing cutting tools for different work pieces without detaching unused... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4501342 | Slip plates for lift rack A laterally movable slide plate includes a plurality of sets of circumferentially grooved wheels which are supported on a plurality of mutually parallel rods carried on a base plate. At least one of the rods has a raised intermediate portion under which a... | 02/26/1985 |
| 4491194 | Vehicle lift rack and jack assembly A jack assembly is pivotally mounted to a carriage which is in turn mounted by trolley wheels to a pair of track mounted rails and carries a wheel at its lower end for engagement with the floor as the tracks are lowered, thereby to pivot the jack assembly... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4491201 | Trolley A trolley assembly for use in an automobile lift rack employs individual trolley wheel mounts wherein the wheel is supported by a plurality of elastomeric mounts arranged in vertically displaced, mutual relationship to prevent bending of the mounts when t... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4395020 | Strut compressor A spring compressor employs a fluid-operated piston-cylinder which drives a first platen toward a second platen to compress a MacPherson strut mounted between the two platens, the first platen being pivotally mounted for self-adjustment to accommodate man... | 07/26/1983 |
| 4303338 | Wheel alignment method and apparatus There is described an instrument and method for adjusting toe relative to the tracking axis of the vehicle by initially measuring the toe angles of the two front or rear wheels relative to the planes of the other two wheels on the same respective sides of... | 12/01/1981 |
| 4295634 | Strut compressor A MacPherson Strut Compressor, with which a strut may be safely dismantled for repair, employs a fluid operated piston-cylinder, mounted to an adjustable upper platen to provide compression between a push platen and a lower base platen.... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4266454 | Method and apparatus for dampening vibrations during turning of a rotor Vibration of a rotating disc is dampened by means of a pair of weights which respectively lie in inclined tracks and are held against the opposite faces of the disc by the force of gravity.... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4115926 | Automotive toe-in gauge This invention relates generally to wheel alignment devices, and specifically to such a device in which accurate toe can be established even if the angular relationship of the device to a reference line, such as the horizontal, changes during the toeing p... | 09/26/1978 |
| 4114283 | Caster camber gauge A caster-camber gauge includes an automatic interlock for presetting the caster and camber wheels, and a spirit level which is laterally mounted for calibration of the gauge.... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4063342 | Brake service tool A single hand tool for removing and applying the springs on automotive brake shoe assemblies includes at one end a member for removing and attaching retainer discs on the hold-down springs and also for removing the shoe-to-anchor springs, and at the other... | 12/20/1977 |
| 4058937 | Grinder attachment for a lathe A self-contained grinder attachment employs a rigid housing having an electric motor mounted thereon for driving both a grinding wheel and a blower which sucks air and loose particles entrained therein from the grinding area, the shaft on which the grindi... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4048858 | Static rotor balancer A rotor is suspended from a body member which is mounted by two sets of bearings for substantially free pivotable movement about two orthogonally disposed intersecting axes, the axis of rotation of the rotor intersects the point of intersection of the two... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4015481 | Bubble balancer A pivot head for a bubble balancer has a socket which receives a spherical support member, the socket having a concave top wall which rests on the spherical member and a circular side wall in close proximity to the equator of the spherical member.... | 04/05/1977 |
| 4010651 | Two-stage wheel balancer A portable bubble balancer incorporates a wheel support and pivot assembly which is spring biased in an upward direction into an interlocked position with the base of the balancer to prevent pivoting of the wheel support in the absence of a wheel thereon.... | 03/08/1977 |
| 3990666 | Wheel clamp A wheel clamp incorporates a pair of leg members each having a pair of spaced apart rim grippers, the leg members being simultaneously adjustable toward and away from a center mount assembly having a mounting surface supported for limited universal moveme... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3953134 | Automotive wheel alignment instrument An optical wheel alignment instrument employs a pair of light weight units each housing a light source and optics including an adjustable mirror for directing a reticle image on a target screen of the other unit, and magnetic devices extend from the appro... | 04/27/1976 |
