Spx Corporation

James E Jirele

Jose Barrios

Dennis Hanson

An apparatus and method for installing and removing a recessed spark plug to and from an engine without a component thereof becoming disengaged. The spark plug tool is long enough to reach a recessed spark plug and includes a first housing member having an opening fitted with an elastomeric sleeve for receiving a spark plug, a shaft that may be integrally connected to the first housing member, and a second housing member which may be integrally connected to the shaft. The second housing member can be coupled to a torque member.

Spark plug tool

Spark plug socket

A method and apparatus for transmitting a force around a corner is provided. The apparatus includes a force transmitter comprising a first and second rounded end, a connecting member connecting the first and second rounded ends having a smaller diameter than the first and second rounded ends. The method for transmitting a force around a corner comprises the steps of urging a force transmitter in one direction, transmitting the force from the force transmitter and a second direction wherein the force transmitter has two rounded ends and a connecting portion having a lesser diameter than either rounded end.

Tool force transmitting method and apparatus

A method and apparatus for adjusting the height of a fuel injector in an engine assembly by providing a variable fuel injector height gauge, selecting a height on the gauge, setting the height on the gauge and adjusting the height of the fuel injector in accordance with the height of the gauge.

Variable fuel injector height gauge

A clutch handler is provided for removal and installation of vehicle parts, such as clutches and the like. The clutch handler comprises a base, a lift arm mechanism including a base end and a distal end, the base end being pivotally mounted to the base by a unique linkage. This linkage allows a clutch to be flipped between the horizontal and the vertical positions without the user's assistance.

Clutch handler

A chartered type MacPherson strut spring compressor having a pivot adapter to permit force from the head of a forcing screw to the open surface of a trunion.

Strut string compressor tool and method

A fluid pumping apparatus (10) includes a soft start valve (16) coupled with the outlet of a pump (14) driven by an electric motor (12) for reducing the startup current of the motor (12). The preferred valve (16) includes a fluid chamber (32), a valve operator in the nature of a ball (22) shiftable in the chamber (32) between the inlet (36) and a valve seat (48), and a biasing assembly (24) including an axially shiftable rod (54) and a spring (56) for biasing the rod (54) against the ball (22) in order to bias the ball (22) toward the chamber inlet (36). Upon startup, the valve (16) provides a reduced start pressure, less than the pump pressure under load, at the inlet (36) as the operator (22) moves toward the seat (48). The chamber (32) presents a volume sufficient for the valve (16) to provide the start pressure long enough for the motor (12) to achieve synchronous speed, thereby reducing motor startup current.

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Owatonna, MN, United States of America

James E Jirele