Automobile body dent puller tool
OwnerEugene B. Steinmann, Jr.inventor
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A pneumatically driven, impact-actuated auto body dent puller has a cylindrical slide weight coaxially movable along a slide shaft for impact against an abutment collar near one end thereof, the slide member being slidably enclosed within a tubular cylinder member having free fitting caps at each end and provided with a through opening near one end connected with a manually controlled valve for impressing a blast of pressurized air behind the slide weight when disposed at the forward end of the slide shaft for projecting the slide weight rearwardly against the abutment collar through the interposed rear end cap, thereby imposing a rearward striking force upon a sheet-metal screw secured at the forward end of the slide shaft which is removably receivable within a punched opening in the dented zone of an area of sheet metal to be repaired.
A pneumatically-driven auto-body dent puller comprising in combination, a slide shaft, a handle at one end of said slide shaft, means for removably securing a self-tapping screw at the other end of said slide shaft, a cylindrical slide weight having a coaxial bore through which said slide shaft is slidingly received, impact abutment means at the handle end of said slide shaft, a tubular cylinder member concentrically disposed about said slide shaft, a pair of front and rear end cap members centrally apertured for the through passage of said slide shaft and arranged thereon for enclosing the front and rear ends, respectively, of said tubular cylinder member, the outer diameter of said cylindrical slide weight being slightly less than the internal diameter of said tubular cylinder member to permit free sliding movement thereof along said slide shaft and within said tubular cylindrical member, and means for injecting a blast of pressurized air within the front end of said cylinder member forwardly of said cylindrical slide weight while in a forward position within said cylinder to drive said cylindrical slide weight rearwardly for impact against said impact abutment means through said rear end cap member, said end cap members each being provided with peripheral skirt portions slidingly receiving respective end portions of said tubular cylinder member, and vent means in said rear end cap member for discharge therethrough of air in said cylinder displaced upon said rearward driving movement of said slide weight.
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