Line-type auto glass removal tools for use with an independent vacuum cup device
AssigneeEqualizer Industries, Inc.
InventorLuis Hernandez
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Abstract
A line-type auto glass cutout tool for use with a vacuum cup device having a vacuum cup and a base connected to the vacuum cup. The tool includes a tool body with a first winding spool mounted on the tool body for rotation about a first spool axis relative to the tool body. A first drive element is coupled to the first winding spool to rotate with the first winding spool about the first spool axis. The auto glass cutout tool also includes an attachment arrangement for releasably securing the tool body to the vacuum cup device in a tool operating position.
Claims18
A line-type auto glass cutout tool for use with a vacuum cup device having a vacuum cup and a base connected to the vacuum cup, the line-type auto glass cutout tool including:
- (a) a tool body;
- (b) a first winding spool mounted on the tool body for rotation about a first spool axis relative to the tool body;
- (c) a first drive element coupled to the first winding spool to rotate with the first winding spool about the first spool axis;
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- (d) an attachment arrangement for releasably securing the tool body to the vacuum cup device in a tool operating position.
A method of securing a line-type auto glass cutout tool on a vacuum cup device which includes a base, a vacuum cup connected to the base, and a vacuum pump connected to the base and operable to apply a vacuum to the volume defined by the vacuum cup, the method including:
- (a) placing a first tool body component of the line-type auto glass cutout tool in a first-side operating position in contact with a first-side feature of the vacuum cup device, the first tool body component including (i) a first winding spool mounted thereon for rotation about a first spool axis relative to the first tool body component, and (ii) a first drive element coupled to the first winding spool to rotate with the first winding spool about the first spool axis;
- (b) placing a second tool body component of the line-type auto glass cutout tool in a second-side operating position in contact with a second-side feature of the vacuum cup device;
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- (c) while the first tool body component resides approximately in the first-side operating position and the second tool body component resides approximately in the second-side operating position, releasably connecting the first tool body component to the second tool body component so that the connection between the first tool body component and second tool body component retains the first tool body component in contact with the first-side feature of the vacuum cup device and retains the second tool body component in contact with the second-side feature of the vacuum cup device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.