Patent ID: 6609406
Filing Date: 2003-08-26
Classification: B21D,Y10T

Abstract:
A vehicle door skin replacement repair tool for reorienting a vehicle door hem flange member of a vehicle door skin from an open-first angle of orientation with a vehicle door frame having a bead of adhesive, said vehicle door frame between said vehicle door skin and said vehicle door hem flange member,â€”to a closed second angle of orientation with the adhesive sandwiched between the vehicle door hem flange and the vehicle door frame, the vehicle door skin replacement repair tool comprising a single unitary forged metal tool body including:a L-shaped guide support with an upwardly extending support member and a guide member, said guide member substantially perpendicular to said support member, said support member and said guide member defining a vehicle door hem flange reorienting tool interior and a shoe member supported by said upwardly extending support member, said shoe member extending outwardly from said support member into said vehicle door hem flange reorienting tool interior, said shoe member spaced away from said guide member, said shoe member having a unitary reorienting surface that has a substantially semi-frustoconical leading reorienting surface and a trailing portion which includes a substantially planar trailing reorienting surface, said substantially planar trailing reorienting surface substantially parallel to said guide member, said substantially planar trailing reorienting surface and said parallel guide member defining a trailing reorienting gap therebetween, said shoe member leading reorienting surface progressively tapered down to said trailing reorienting surface wherein said reorienting surface progressively reorients said vehicle door hem flange member from said open first angle of orientation into contact with said bead of adhesive and squeezes said adhesive between said vehicle door hem flange member and said vehicle door frame with said vehicle door frame interleaved between said vehicle door hem flange member and said vehicle door skin into said closed second angle of orientation with the adhesive sandwiched between the vehicle door hem flange and the vehicle door frame, said trailing reorienting gap sized and adapted to permit progressively exiting passage of said interleaved closed second angle of orientation vehicle door skin, vehicle door frame, vehicle door hem flange member and squeezed adhesive from said unitary metal tool body.