US 4,300,382 AGranted

Automobile body dent puller

OwnerJames S. Meekinventor

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Abstract

A tool for straightening indentations in sheet metal has a pair of levers each having first and second legs disposed angularly to one another and a pivot pin for journally mounting the levers together for pivotable movement about the pin. The levers may be pivoted from a position in which the axes of the first legs are superposed upon each other for insertion of both first legs simultaneously into a hole formed in the sheet metal for receiving the legs. The levers may then be pivoted to a second position in which the first legs face in opposite directions from the pivot pin and engage the sheet metal about the hole. In one embodiment the axes of the second legs in the second position are disposed angularly to one another and a spreader member is removably secured to the legs. A clevis member being secured to the spreader member for application of a pulling force. In two other embodiments the axes of the second legs are superposed upon each other and a clevis member is directly removably secured to both legs.

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Dependent claims

A tool for straightening indentations in sheet metal comprising, a pair of rigid levers, each lever having a first leg elongated along a first axis and a second leg elongated along a second axis disposed angularly to the respective first axis, means for pivotably mounting said levers one to the other substantially at the junction of the first and second axes, the disposition of one lever relatively to the other lever being such that said levers when pivotable to a first position wherein said first axes are superposed substantially upon one another said second axes are disposed angularly to one another whereby both of said first legs only may be inserted into a hole formed in the sheet metal for receiving said first legs, said levers being pivotable from said first position to a second position wherein said first axes are disposed angularly one to the other and said first legs are restrained from exiting from the hole and engage the sheet metal across said hole, and means for grasping both of said second legs in said second position, whereby a pulling force may be applied to said second legs for impact engagement of said first legs with the sheet metal.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.