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US 9,862,082 B2Granted
Removal and installation device for valve keepers
OwnerRandall Mooreinventor
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Abstract
A tool for installing or removing valve keepers is disclosed. One end of the tool is configured to easily remove valve keepers, while the other end of the tool is configured to easily install valve keepers. This valve tool can be further connected to an engine-mounted lever assembly for increasing leverage on the tool during use.
Claims16
A tool for installing valve keepers on a valve stem, comprising:
- a tool body;
- a centering pin longitudinally movable within a cavity of said tool body;
- and,
- an end portion being user-removable from an end of said tool body;
- said end portion having an aperture extending completely through and which the centering pin is located, and further having a discrete first and a discrete second channel that are each sized to contain a valve keeper and that terminate prior to a bottom of said end portion;
- wherein said centering pin is configured to retain valve keepers in said first and said second channel when in a first position;
- and wherein said centering pin is configured to allow valve keepers to enter said aperture of said end portion from said first and said second channel when in a second position.
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A tool for installing valve keepers on a valve stem, comprising:
- a tool body;
- a centering pin extending from a pin cavity in said tool body and being movable into and out of said pin cavity;
- and,
- an end portion being user-removable from an end of said tool body;
- said end portion having an aperture extending completely through and which the centering pin is located, and further having a discrete first and a discrete second channel that are each sized to contain a valve keeper and that are closed off from a bottom of said end portion;
- wherein said centering pin is located within said aperture of said end portion in a first position, thereby closing said first and said second channel from said aperture;
- and wherein said centering pin is movable to a second position that opens said first and said second channel to said aperture of said end portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.