OK I picked up these 2 old puller from an Estate sale last weekend. Does anyone know what there intended use is ? Im thinking automotive . the first one looks like some kind of double puller . and the other is really different. it has a patend date of July 6th 1920 MFG-Heinie Puller Any ideas ?
The double puller..you use one set of jaws at a time... I'm not quite sure how you'd use the Heine puller, but I don't have any medical training.
Heinie puller. Gotta keep that thang tuned. The only patent listed for that date was for a Heinrich Heine (no "I") and is listed simply as "bearing puller."
the second one is like a modern posi lock puller for ballbearing sets , but uses ball bearings in the legs to apply pressure to the bearing case the harder you pull the harder they dig in to the outer case . https://books.google.com/books?id=D... gear puller&pg=RA11-PA35#v=onepage&q&f=true
OK upon closer inspection of the double puller, Yes I see the arms are removable and reversible. So I stand corrected, it is not a double puller .
Maybe a Heinie Puller was what they used in the Roaring '20s, before the Brazilian **** Lift was invented? The inside jaws on the one puller look like they were made for pulling brake drums from Nut& Key tapered axles like old Fords and Studes.
My guess on the double is that the arms with the curved tips are designed for pulling early Ford hubs by gripping the puller groove. They are very similar to the Ford arm set used in the Snap-on "Dreadnaught" puller.
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