# US 11,077,382 B2 · Wheel removal tool for a toy vehicle wheel > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,077,382 B2 - Document ID: US11077382B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/741,217 - Filed: 2020-01-13 - Published: 2020-07-16 - Granted: 2021-08-03 - Earliest claimed: 2019-01-15 - Assignees: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH + Co. KG - Applicants: Bruder Spielwaren GmbH + Co. KG - Inventors: Goran Kvesic - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11077382B2 ## CPC - A63H 17/262: {Chassis; Wheel mountings; Wheels; Axles; Suspensions; Fitting body portions to chassis} - A63H 17/002: {made of parts to be assembled} - A63H: TOYS, e.g. TOPS, DOLLS, HOOPS OR BUILDING BLOCKS ## Abstract A wheel removal tool for a toy vehicle wheel has a tool base body and at least one rear-engagement portion. The latter is connected fixedly to the tool base body and is embodied so that it, in a removal starting position, engages behind an assigned removal portion of the toy vehicle wheel. A removal lever of the removal tool has a supporting portion for support on a vehicle component fixed on the chassis. The removal lever is adjustable relative to the tool base body between the removal starting position and a removal end position. In the latter, the at least one rear-engagement portion is displaced relative to the supporting portion in a removal direction. This results in a removal tool with which a simple detachment, which is in particular close to reality, of the toy vehicle wheel from a chassis-side vehicle component is enabled. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A wheel removal tool for a toy vehicle wheel, with a tool base body, with at least one rear-engagement portion which is connected fixedly to the tool base body and is embodied so that the at least one rear-engagement portion, in a removal starting position, engages an assigned removal portion of the toy vehicle wheel from behind, with a removal lever which has a supporting portion for supporting the removal lever on a vehicle component fixed on a chassis, wherein the removal lever is pivotable relative to the tool base body between the removal starting position and a removal end position in which, compared with the removal starting position, the at least one rear-engagement portion is displaced relative to the supporting portion in a removal direction, wherein the supporting portion serves to support the removal lever at a counter-supporting end face of the vehicle component fixed on the chassis and is pivotable between the removal starting position and the removal end position to remove the toy vehicle wheel, and wherein the counter-supporting end face is part of a disc brake component of the toy vehicle wheel. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The wheel removal tool according to claim 1, comprising a multiplicity of rear-engagement portions. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The wheel removal tool according to claim 2, wherein the rear-engagement portions, as seen in a projection perpendicular to the removal direction, are arranged distributed around the supporting portion. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The wheel removal tool according to claim 2, wherein the rear-engagement portions are arranged in a rear-engagement plane of the wheel removal tool, and wherein a removal pivot axis is arranged parallel to the rear-engagement plane. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The wheel removal tool according to claim 1, wherein the at least one rear-engagement portion is embodied so that it engages behind the removal portion of the toy vehicle wheel in a circumferential direction around the removal direction. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The wheel removal tool according to claim 1, wherein the supporting portion of the removal lever is embodied as a supporting surface at a free end of the removal lever. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The wheel removal tool according to claim 1, wherein the removal lever is mounted pivotably on the tool base body about a removal pivot axis. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The wheel removal tool according to claim 1, wherein the counter-supporting end face is formed by an end face of a wheel assembly axle. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The wheel removal tool according to claim 1, wherein the supporting portion is cam-shaped. ### Claim 10 A toy vehicle set, comprising: a toy vehicle having a toy vehicle wheel; and a wheel removal tool with a tool base body, with at least one rear-engagement portion which is connected fixedly to the tool base body and is embodied so that the at least one rear-engagement portion, in a removal starting position, engages an assigned removal portion of the toy vehicle wheel from behind, with a removal lever which has a supporting portion for supporting the removal lever on a vehicle component fixed on a chassis, wherein the removal lever is pivotable relative to the tool base body between the removal starting position and a removal end position in which, compared with the removal starting position, the at least one rear-engagement portion is displaced relative to the supporting portion in a removal direction, wherein the supporting portion serves to support the removal lever at a counter-supporting end face of the vehicle component fixed on the chassis and is pivotable between the removal starting position and the removal end position to remove the toy vehicle wheel, wherein the vehicle component fixed on the chassis, which is embodied to support the supporting portion of the removal lever, represents a counter-supporting end face of an axle unit of the toy vehicle, and wherein the axle unit has a continuous axle and disc brake components pushed onto free ends of the continuous axle on wheel sides thereof, wherein the counter-supporting end face is part of the disc brake components. ### Claim 11 A wheel removal tool for a toy vehicle wheel, comprising: a tool base body with a rear-engagement portion integrally formed on the tool base body and configured to engage, in a removal starting position, behind the toy vehicle wheel; and a removal lever pivotably mounted on the tool base body, the removal lever having a cam surface for supporting the removal lever on an end face of an axle, wherein the removal lever is pivotable between the removal starting position and a removal end position, and wherein the cam surface pushes against the end face of the axle when the removal lever is pivoted from the removal starting position to the removal end position while the removal tool pulls the toy vehicle wheel off the axle, and wherein the end face of the axle is formed by a disc brake component arranged at the end of the axle.