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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
James E Shaffer, Maitland, FL (US);
Assignee:
Consulier Engineering, Inc., Riviera Beach, FL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
81 5731 ; 81 56 ;
Abstract
A compact, torque multiplying apparatus for turning nuts of wheel lugs has an orbiting gear arrangement including an epicycling gear element driven within a housing by a socket wrench. In one case, the housing is held fixed by a tool that mates with adjacent wheel rim contours and output torque is applied to a lug nut by rotation of a second gear element. In another case, the second gear element is held fixed by keying it to the end of the lug, and output torque is transmitted to the nut by the housing.