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US 5,033,140 AGranted
Multipurpose combination tool
OwnerAndy Chen, Alan Tsaoinventors
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Abstract
A multi-purpose combination tool which resembles a pair of pliers and is capable of performing a number of diverse functions commonly encountered at home and/or in the shop. A tire repair kit incorporated in one of the plier-like handles includes dual punchers, a needle file, a steel rod and a sample piece of rubber.
Claims1
A multi-purpose combination tool for performing functions most commonly encountered at home or in shop, such as:
- repair tires, drive/pry nails, install/remove flat-head/Phillips screws, tighten/loosen objects with pliers, cut wires, drive objects with rubber mallet;
- the uniquely-designed a multi-purpose combination tool incluiding a tire-repairing tool kit consisting of dual pairs of pinchers, a needle file, and a steel rod, where the four-piece pinchers insert tire-repairing rubber into the tire and the steel rod running side-wise across the top of the pinchers holds down the rubber piece while the pinchers are being retrieved from the tire;
- the uniquely-designed multi-purpose combination tool further including a nail-prying claw having a smoothly curved back ridge which facilitates the nail-prying function.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.