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US 4,289,017 AGranted
Body puller
OwnerJoseph L. Guidryinventor
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Abstract
A tool for straightening metal of automobile bodies and the like or lifting metal sheets has a heavy ring carrying a pair of arms with looped ends about the ring and L-shaped outer ends for insertion through one or more apertures formed in metal to be straightened whereby pulling of the ring automatically turns the outer ends of the arms into desired alignment.
Claims5
A tool for applying a force to the back side of sheet material having at least one aperture therein comprising
- a ring, and
- first and second arms having the inner ends thereof looped about said ring for sliding engagement therewith,
- said arms each having a lateral projection at the outer end thereof with such projections extending in opposite directions normal to the plane of the looped end of the arm from which the projection extends,
- whereby insertion of the outer ends of the arms through an aperture in sheet material and pulling said ring away from the material will cause the projections on said arms to rotate into opposed alignment engaging the backside of said material.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.