Patent ID: 8713773

Claim:
A tool for removing a gasket from a recess in a glad hand connector of a railway car brake line, comprising, in one piece: a handle; a first shank contiguous with the handle; a second shank contiguous with the first shank and forming a first angle of 20-60 degrees with the first shank; a tool head having about the same width as the second shank, being thinner than the second shank, and having a tip and at least two tines separated by an air release slit and forming a second angle of 35-65 degrees with the second shank; a step contiguous with and joining the tool head and the second shank; the second shank and the step forming a curved bottom surface adapted to be slidingly positioned against the guard arm of a glad hand; wherein the length of the tool head from the tip of the tool head to the curved surface extends from the top edge of the recess in the glad hand to the surface of the guard arm of the glad hand.