Patent ID: 7204172
Filing Date: 2007-04-17
Classification: B67B

Abstract:
1. A hand tool capable of removing a stopper from a pressurized vessel of a type where the stopper is retained by a wire cage, the wire cage including a wire band at or adjacent a neck ring on the vessel, the wire band being secured by a twisted portion terminating in a wire eye, the tool including: a pair of elongate members pivotally connected together, each member having a handle portion and a jaw portion; a stopper-gripping portion on an inner side of each jaw portion, the stopper-gripping portions, in use, able to effectively grip the stopper therebetween and cooperate to permit relative pivoting movement between the members and the stopper substantially about a fulcrum axis defined by and extending between the two stopper-gripping portions, and the tool having a protrusion at or adjacent at least one of the members and adapted to be received in the wire eye when the stopper-gripping portions are engaged with the stopper.