PULLER, RIM

Description: .1 ABOVE DIMESIONS. RUBBER AND STEEL. SERIAL # 2,255,944. .2 IDENTICAL TO .1 .1 AND .2 BOTH TIRES, ARE OF SAME SIZE, MADE OF BLACK RUBBER, WITH STEEL (RUSTED) RIMS. RIMS ARE BLACK AND HAVE A FASTENER WHICH HOOKS ONTO EACH END. AROUND THE SIDE OF EACH TIRE IS EMBOSSED "FIRESTONE" SYMBOL, "GUN F DIPPED", "MADE IN CANADA", "8- BD-8721". .1 HAS U.S. PAT. NO. 2.255.994 ON TIRE. .2 HAS "S-3", NO PATENT NUMBER. .1 RIM IS LOOSE FROM TIRE. .3 RIM PULLER 38 CM LTH. STEEL. TWO HANDLES WITH HOOK-SHAPED ENDS ARE SCREWED ONTO THE ONE END OF RIM PULLER. ON THE ONE SIDE OF EACH HANDLE IS EMBOSSED "CLEVELAND O." AND ON THE OTHER SIDE IS "BALLOON 6". "PACIFIC RIM VOL. J" IS ENCLOSED ON THE MAIN HANDLE OF THE PULLER. ON THIS SIDE THERE IS A LEVER WHICH TURNS A COG WHICH IN TURN WINDS THE HOOK-SHAPED END WHICH GRIPS ONTO THE RIM AND PULLS IT OFF. THIS END IS THREADED 15.3 CM LONG WHEN ADJUSTED TO ITS FULL LENGTH. "PAT.U.S. CANADA AND ENG., OTHER PENDING" IS EMBOSSED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAIN HANDLE.

History: TAKEN FROM A 1928 CHEVROLET AUTOMOBILE. THE RIM PULLER WOULD BE HOOKED ONTO THE RIM OF THE TIRE AND BE PULLED OFF BY TURNING THE LEVER OF THE RIM PULLER. THE RIM PULLER WAS USED TO PULL OFF THE RIM FROM A TIRE WHICH WAS FLAT. IT WAS HOOKED ONTO THE RIM AND A LEVER WAS TURNED. THIS WOULD PULL THE RIM.