Patent ID: 6345558
Filing Date: 2002-02-12
Classification: B25B

Abstract:
A manually operated device for rapidly grasping and securely holding different sizes of ratio gears having straight external gear teeth, and gears covered with hot gear lube, said device comprising:two elongated, single-piece lever members each having a straight lower handle, an upper handle transitionally angled with respect to said lower handle, and a jaw element perpendicularly extended with respect to said upper handle, each of said lower handles having a distal portion, each of said upper handles centrally joined to one another for pivotal movement relative to the other, said jaw elements each having a distal end protrusion, a proximal end flared protrusion longitudinally aligned with said distal end protrusion, and five cutout flat surfaces positioned between said distal end protrusion and said proximal end flared protrusion; connection means adapted for pivotally securing said upper handles to one another; and insulation means adapted for thermally insulating said distal portions of said lower handles against temperatures typically anticipated in hot gear lube covering a gear extracted from a quick-change rear end of a race vehicle so that when a gear with straight external gear teeth is positioned between said jaw elements and said lower handles are each moved toward one another by an operator, said jaw elements are brought in contact with the gear between adjacent external gear teeth on opposing sides of the gear to quickly grasp and securely hold the gear, and thereby protecting the operator from the risk of injury possible through direct contact with the hot gear and hot gear lube.