All-in-one tire repair tool
OwnerRobert Yatesinventor
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Abstract
A tire repair plug installation tool that can be used from the outside without requiring the tire to be removed from the rim upon which it is mounted. An all-in-one tool which contains all of the various parts required to effect a repair in a tubeless tire. The objectives are accomplished by providing a handle including a compartment defined therein for storing extra plugs, a shaft drivingly engaging the handle with a plug hook means incorporated therein and a reamer at an end of the shaft opposite from the point where the shaft attaches to the ratchet means.
Claims4
An all-in-one tire repair plug installation tool for insertion of a plug into an injury in a tubeless tire, the tool comprising:
- a. a handle defining a compartment therein for storage of more than one plug, the handle including a removable cap to retain the plugs therein and having a housing on a lower surface thereof, the housing containing a ratchet means for allowing a user to rotatingly drive a reamer using a ratchet-type action;
- b. more than one removable shaft, each shaft having a different diameter, each shaft adapted to removably engage the ratchet means at an upper terminal end and to removably engage a reamer at a lower terminal end, and each shaft further having a plug hook means for inserting a cylindrical plug into the injury, the plug hook means disposed between the upper and lower terminal ends;
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- c. at least one reamer adapted to be removably attached to the lower terminal end;
- whereby, a user can prepare the injury by rotating the reamer within the injury to smooth it for receipt of the plug, then retrieve a plug from the handle for insertion using the plug hook means, all using the same tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.