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Body and frame straightening system

US4510790A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 26, 1982
Grant dateApr 16, 1985
Priority date
Expiry dateAug 26, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S72/705
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An improved motor vehicle body and frame straightener of the type usable with conventional "dozers" to pull bodies and frames into shape and alignment, and having an adjustable anchor-free rectangular rail system with slidably positionable jacking provisions and laterally adjustable body grippers provides cross-slides integrally mounting the jacking provisions and laterally adjustable body grippers for better speed in set-up and better access for "dozers", while preserving facility to move the laterally adjustable body grippers without concurrent movement of the jacking provisions; grippers of two types, jaw and stud, may be interchanged by withdrawing a gripper arm and re-inserting it rotated 180.degree..

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