An Improved Vehicle Axle Wrench.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 18,92
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Vehicle Axle Wrench.
I, WILLIAM HENRY MUNNS, of 106, 107, and 108, Victoria Chambers, 55 and
56 Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention (a communication to me from abroad by John A. Miller,
of St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Inventor,) to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved vehicle axle wrench which is
constructed in such manner that it will fit nuts of various sizes perfectly, and
without spoiling the sharp edges of the nuts.
By this invention the wrench is formed with two sockets of different dimensions,
each of which sockets is provided with four triangular side depressions. The
smaller of these sockets has one side depression of smaller dimensions than those
formed in the larger socket, whereby four squares of different dimensions are
formed in the wrench. The wronch is constructed of a thin metallic shell which is
adapted for insertion in the end of the vehicle hub.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Vehicle Axle Wrench.
I, WILLIAM HENRY MUNNS, of 106, 107, and 108 Victoria Chambers, Chancery
Lane, in the County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention (a communication to me from abroad by John A. Miller, of
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Inventor,) and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:—
My invention relates to improvements in vehicle-wrenches; and it consists of the
novel arrangement and combination of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter
described, and designated in the claims.
In the drawings,
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with an ordinary ratchet-wrench applied
thereto.
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Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of my invention with a permanently-attached
handle.
Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the nut-socket.
Referring to the drawings, 1 represents my improved socket with a stem 2 secured
thereto in any suitable and mechanical manner. Said stem is provided with a
perforation, which perforation is provided with screw-threads adapted to receive a
handle 3. Said stem should also have an angular form, so that it can be more
effectively clamped by an ordinary wrench or placed in the socket of an ordinary
ratchet-wrench without turning in said devices when it is desired to use the socket
in functional operation. The socket, stem, and handle attached to said stem may
be made separately and put together as shown in Fig. 1, or the socket may be used
in connection with an ordinary ratchet-wrench, as shown in Fig. 2, and when so
used the stem of said socket is placed in the socket of the ratchet-wrench 5, and
said socket can be then functionally operated by said ratchet-wrench. The socket
may be rigidly secured to an operating-handle 6, as shown in Fig. 3.
The object of the handle 3 in either of the before-mentioned constructions is to
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page_text: provide a means for holding the socket in contact with the nut when in modus
operandi.
The socket proper is provided with two or more sockets or sections of different
dimensions with their centres in alignment, one of which sections is situated
adjacently below the other. The lower section 8 of said sections. is of sinaller
lateral dimensions than the upper section 7. Each of said sections is subdivided
by means of triangular depressions 9 into figures of different proportions, so that
each of said sections is adapted to receive two different sizes of nuts, making in all
four different sizes of nuts which said socket is adapted to receive. Said sections,
by their subdivision arising from the triangular depressions 9 formed therein, are
so constructed as to receive a quadrangular, hexagonal, or octagonal nut.
By the construction of the socket, first, in two or more sections of different
lateral dimensions, and, secondly, in subdividing said sections by triangular
depressions 9, which depressions are situated approximately in the same vertical
line, it is very easy to perceive that said socket is amply adapted to receive quite
a number of various sizes of nuts.
Having fully described my invention, I will now proceed to describe its applica-
tion and use. Whenever it is desired to operate a nut, the operator should grasp
handle 3 of the socket and apply said socket to the nut to be operated. Then it is
only necessary for functional operation to apply any device to the stem of said
socket by which it can be turned. For comparatively small nuts section 8 is used,
and for larger nuts section 7 is used. However, when the socket is placed on
the nut, by turning said socket around the nut will fit in its appropriate depression.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. As an improved article of manufacture, a vehicle-wrench having two sockets
of different dimensions, each of which sockets is provided with four triangular side
depressions, the smaller socket 8 having side depressions of smaller dimensions than
those formed in the larger socket 7, and whereby four squares of different dimensions
are formed in the wrench, substantially as specified.
2. The improved wrench consisting of a thin metallic shell 1, adapted for
insertion in the end of a vehicle-hub, two sockets 7 and 8, of different dimensions,
formed in said shell with their centres in alignment, each of which sockets is
provided with four triangular side depressions 9, the dimensions of the triangular
depressions in the smaller socket being smaller than those formed in the larger
socket, whereby four squares of different dimensions are formed in said 'shell,
substantially as specified.