Device for removing vehicle windscreens
OwnerTrevor S. Lockinventor
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Abstract
A device capable of use either by hand or with a powered reciprocating actuator for removing vehicle glass panels that have been adhesively bonded into a vehicle frame using an elastomeric sealing strip, said device comprising an elongated flexible blade having a gripping element and a sharpened edge at opposed longitudinal ends thereof, the sharpened edge being curved and coplanar with one face of the blade.
Claims17
A device for removing a glass panel secured in a vehicle by an elastomeric sealing strip, comprising:
- an elongated, flexible blade having first and second ends, first and second longitudinal sides, and first and second opposed faces;
- a sharpened edge at said first end and extending along a short length of said first longitudinal side from said first end, said sharpened edge being located in the plane of said first face of said flexible blade;
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- means, mounted at said second end, for permitting said flexible blade to be gripped manually or to be operatively mounted in a reciprocating power tool.
A method of removing a glass panel from a vehicle which has een secured in the vehicle by an elastomeric material sealing strip, comprising the steps of:
- reciprocating an elongated, flexible blade having a sharpened edge at a first end thereof, which edge extends along a short length of a first longitudinal side of said blade from said first end and is located in the plane of a first face of said blade;
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- maintaining said first face of said blade in sliding contact with the glass panel to be removed as said sharpened edge reciprocates against the sealing strip to separate the glass panel from the sealing strip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.