Seal holding shuttle for fitting elastic seal members to a caliper

A seal holding shuttle employable for fitting elastic seal members to a caliper having an adjustment bolt, said seal holding shuttle comprising:

• a main body;
• an abutment plate having a cavity formed in said main body for receiving the adjustment bolt at the central part thereof;
• a support member for clamping each elastic seal member between said abutment plate and said support member in an elastically bent state, said elastic seal member exhibiting an annular contour in a restored state;
• a plurality of pins connected to one of said abutment plate and said support member;
• said pins being located on the inner diameter side of said elastic seal member, said pins being arranged in a spaced relationship as seen in the circumferential direction with a predetermined distance kept between adjacent pins to support a plurality of outward bend projections of said elastic seal member held in the elastically bent state;
• and
• first driving means for displacing one of said abutment plate and said support member relative to each other in an axial direction, whereby said elastic seal assembly having a plurality of inward bent projections formed therewith without any occurrence of interference with said adjustment bolt while exhibiting the elastically bent state is held in a clamped state or released from a clamped state by displacing one of said abutment plate and said support member relative to each other in the axial direction.