Windshield removal tool
OwnerDaniel Boehmer, Christopher Ciccaroneinventors
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Abstract
A windshield removal tool has elongate arm with a claw at its distal end. The device also includes a winch actuated by a motor at the proximal end of the arm. When a cutting wire is positioned along an adhesive bead about a periphery of a fixed glass or panel, the cutting wire is threaded through a puncture in the adhesive bead and attached to the winch. The claw engages a location along the adhesive bead as the winch wines in the cutting wire. A pulley near the distal end of the arm guides the wire. The device may be removed from an initial anchored position and anchored at a new position by removing the claw and placing it at another point along the periphery.
Claims8
A windshield removing tool comprising:
- a body housing a motor and having a vertical axis extending through a first end and a second end of the body, and a handle along the vertical axis;
- an elongate arm having a proximal end attached to the body and extending in a longitudinal direction away from the body to a distal end, wherein the longitudinal direction is not parallel to the vertical axis of the body;
- a claw at the distal end of the elongate arm;
- a guiding pulley proximal to the distal end of the elongate arm and having an axle, a circumferential channel, and a plane of rotation tangential to the longitudinal direction of the elongate arm, and circumferential channel;
- a winch having a spool, an axle actuated by the motor, and a plane of rotation equal to the plane of rotation of the pulley;
- and,
- a cutting wire attached to the spool of the winch and extending through a portion of the circumferential channel of the guide pulley;
- wherein the cutting wire is wound around the spool of the winch when the motor actuates the axle of the winch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.