Automotive ignition tool
OwnerJerome R. Leddyinventor
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Abstract
A portable, light weight device that includes an electrical conducting grid or screen that may be grasped by a thumb and fore finger and deformed to partially or wholly encircle a spark plug wire and terminal associated therewith. The electrical conducting screen or grid has a pliable electrical conductor connected thereto, which conductor on the free end is provided with a clip to removably secure the clip to a ground portion of a vehicle. When the screen or grid is in engagement with a spark plug wire and terminal, the high tension wire may be removed from a spark plug by a bare hand of a user of the invention without receiving an electric shock.
Claims2
In combination with an internal combustion engine powered vehicle having a plurality of spark plugs, a plurality of high tension voltage conductors that include terminals secured to said spark plugs, and a grounded portion, a device for removing a desired one of said conductors from a spark plug by a user without said user receiving an electric shock, said device including:
- a. a pliable metallic screen having first and second spaced openings therein in which a forefinger and thumb of said user may be inserted to deform said screen into contact with one of said terminals to permit said conductor of which it forms a part to be separated from a spark plug when said internal combustion engine is operating;
- b. A pliable electrical conductor secured to said screen;
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- c. A metallic clip on a free end of said conductor that is secured to said grounded portion, with said high tension voltage conductor being removable from said plug when said engine is operating without said user receiving a shock due to said voltage flowing to said grounded portion rather to said user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.