Knock-on Wheel Weight Installation and Removal Tool
AssigneeGaither Tool Company, Inc.
InventorDavid W. Teal
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Abstract
A knock-on wheel weight tool for installing or removing a wheel weight with a metal clip on a wheel rim. The knock-on wheel weight tool includes a shaft component, a wheel-weight installation head removably attached to the shaft component, the wheel-weight installation head including a wheel weight clip contact area shaped to receive the metal clip of the wheel weight. The knock-on wheel weight tool also includes a weighted slide handle with a shaft hole sized to receive the shaft component, allowing the weighted slide handle to slide back and forth on the shaft component. A user slides the weighted slide handle along the shaft component to strike the wheel-weight installation head which in turn snaps the metal clip of the wheel weight onto the wheel rim.
Claims12
A knock-on wheel weight apparatus for installing a wheel weight with a metal clip on a wheel rim, the apparatus comprising:
- a shaft component including a first end and a second end, the shaft component having a shaft diameter;
- a wheel-weight installation head removably attached to the first end of the shaft component, the wheel-weight installation head including a wheel weight clip contact area shaped to receive the metal clip of the wheel weight;
- a weighted slide handle configured with a shaft hole through a longitudinal length of the weighted slide handle, the shaft hole having a hole diameter at least 0.5% greater than the shaft diameter, the weighted slide handle being configured to receive the shaft component to extend through the shaft hole;
- a stationary handle section affixed to the second end of the shaft component;
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- a wheel-weight removal hook head removably attached to the second end of the shaft component;
- wherein the weighted slide handle is configured to slide back and forth on the shaft component and exert a force equal to or greater than a clip installation force on the wheel-weight installation head to snap the metal clip of the wheel weight onto the wheel rim.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.