Patent ID: 7188509

Claim:
A tool for grasping a single knuckle of a door hinge mounted onto a door in order to force and align the door hinge relative to an edge of the door hinge, said tool comprising: a bar; said bar having a substantially cylindrical opening near one end of said bar with a centerline of said cylindrical opening being perpendicular to a long dimension of said bar and extending between opposite flat surfaces of said bar; said bar having a slit extending from said one end of said bar to said cylindrical opening and from said cylindrical opening to near a center of said bar wherein walls of said slit are parallel to a centerline of said opening; said slit separating said bar into one jaw opposite an opposite jaw; said cylindrical opening having a diameter selected to permit slidably positioning said knuckle within said cylindrical opening; a screw hole extending through said one jaw and said opposite jaw where a part of said screw hole within said said one jaw is threaded; a screw positionned through said screw hole and screwed into said threaded part of said screwhole providing that when said jaws are squeezed together by turning said screw, said jaws are clamped onto said knuckle when said knuckle is positioned in said cylindrical opening.