US1558854A - Brake-adjusting tool - Google Patents

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Oct- 27, 1925; 1,558,854

N. FALCONER BRAKE ADJUSTING TOOL Filed Dec. 22, 1924 INVENTOR. /V/ L 514 [GA/El? A TTORNEYS.

Patented Oct. 27, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEIL FALCONER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

BRAKE-ADJUSTING TOOL.

Application filed December 22, 1924. Serial No. 757,570. i

lie it known that l. N l-ill, lt alaioimau.

s, and a resident of I zen ot' the l'nited State a citi- San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and tate of California, have. invented a new and useful Brake-Adjusting Tool. of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particul justing the bra The objects vide a tool which will engage to garage tools and arly to a special tool for use in adkes of automobiles. of the invention are to prothe brake toot pedal and some tixed part of the vehicle, say

the seat, and

force the-pedal down to a predetermined degree depending on the setting of the tool, also such a device which will be Figure 1 shows the position between the foot pedal and the scat device in operative or other fixed portion of an automobile as explained.

Figure 2 shows the de ing toggle joint broken portions shown in sci-ti their construction.

vice with the releasaud with eertaih on to b tter reveal Figure 2; is an end view ol' the pedal cugaging lug.

in further detail the a tubular body member a threaded rod J with a nut 3 thereon bearing against the end when the tool is in use,

section t pivoted at 5 it bular section.

invention comprises 1 shdably receivot' the tubular body and a pipe or bar one end ot the tu- The bar section 4 is loosely fitting within the body section at in use in opposing end its pivoted end so that wise pressure the bar and body portions will be deflected out of a straight line as indicated in Furl-ire l, llkc a toggle pushed beyond the bar is locked in the the exteluling wall (3 o wvhile opposite the is cut away at 7 so broken by pushing .it to collapse it to the pos extended side (3 that the joint maybe a straight line, and

deflected position by t the tubular body.

the wall back Over the center ltion shown in Figure 2.

tion is a 't'crrule S in or other material is of placing against a fixed part 13 of the ve- :h1ele and getting a frictional grip there- At the extreme end of the rod set which a pad 5) of rubber secured for the purpose against as indicated in Figure 1.

At the remote. end of the threaded rod 2 a pivoted hook like of cars 11 formed t is plate having a pair hereon embracing opposite sides of the end of the bar and secured thereto by a pivot pin 12.

This plate is especially formed and adapted to engage the edge of the foot pedai 14 as shown in Figure l, and the pivot provides for tlie plate assuming any angle in forcing the pedal back.

1 To prevent rotation of the thriaded rod upon turning the 11 through a slot 16 cu ut 3 a screw extends t through the side of the tubular body. and which permits of its longitudinal ad ustment without turning.

In 'use the tool is required length. the

tool then straightened between atixed porroughly adjusted to the joint broken and the tion of the vehicle and the pedal, thus forcing the latter down as required, and by turning-the nut any further adjustment of the pedal in either direction may be secured.

After performing il the clutch or brake.

been released by th moved by simply l preserving the ctition ot the work l claim:

1e necessary work on or whichever pedal has e device, the tool is re- )reaking the jointthus setting of the tool for a repon a similar automobile.

1. A tool ol' the character described com prising'a tubular body. tending therefrom at" one end nut bearingagainst the end oi the and a bar extending other end ot the bo 2. A tool of the prising tending therefrom a nut bearing agaii and a bar extending otherend 0f the hot a threaded bar ex and having a body, from and pivoted to the lv.

-baractcl described coma tubular body. a threaded bar exat one end and having 1st: the end of the body, from and pivoted to the ly. means to prevent relative turning ot the threaded bar and body and nn-ans l'or limit pivoted olnt.

ing the movement of the NEIL FALCONER.

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