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For uprightly attached vehicular wheels, the horizontal wheel-depth is so large that two workmen are required to remove and re-install the bolts attaching the wheel to the axle assembly. The novel wrench-holding fixture herein, which is removably installed vertically alongside the wheel well, elimin

For uprightly attached vehicular wheels, the horizontal wheel-depth is so large that two workmen are required to remove and re-install the bolts attaching the wheel to the axle assembly. The novel wrench-holding fixture herein, which is removably installed vertically alongside the wheel well, eliminates the need for that secondary workman heretofore employed for holding the elongate bolt wrench parallel to the wheel geometric-center. The wrench-holding fixture includes a vertically upright jig-plate having a plurality of strategically positioned and readily accessible downwardly extending slots terminating as wrench-resting shelves horizontally alignable with the several wheel bolt locations. Sturdy riser means (such as radiating bottomlegs) and a vertically radiating topleg components permit the fixture to be manually frictionally installed to the horizontally circular wheel ridge and in a condition wherein the jig-plate wrench-resting shelves are adapted to steadily maintain the elongate bolt wrench in horizontal condition for manipulation by a lever wielding unassisted workman. The wrench-holding fixture might include other optionally employable features ancillary to the construction, installation, and use of the wrench-holding fixture.

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1. For use in removable combination with a vertically upright vehicular wheel having an inwardly horizontally extending circular ridge spaced a finite ridge-radius from the wheel geometric-center, and said vehicular wheel being provided with a plural-number of horizontal apertures in a circular arra

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For use in removable combination with a vertically upright vehicular wheel having an inwardly horizontally extending circular ridge spaced a finite ridge-radius from the wheel geometric-center, and said vehicular wheel being provided with a plural-number of horizontal apertures in a circular array spaced a constant bore-radius from said geometric-center and at equal angular intervals thereabout, a wrench-holding fixture comprising: (A) a vertically upright annular jig-plate having a central reference-point horizontally alignable with said geometric-center and also having a larger outer-periphery surrounding a smaller annular-periphery and said reference-point, that part of the outer-periphery located above a horizontal plane passing through the jig-plate reference-point being spaced less than said ridge-radius from said reference-point, said jig-plate being provided with a plural-number of downwardly extending slots, said downwardly extending slots being wholly linearly extending along the length thereof and terminating as a lower-end of circular arc configuration, a plurality of said slots being as upper-slots extending wholly linearly downwardly from portions of the outer-periphery located above said horizontal plane, another plurality of said slots being as lower-slots extending wholly linearly downwardly from portions of the annular-periphery located below said horizontal plane, the majority of said downwardly extending slots being in lineraly extending radial relationship to the jig-plate central reference-point, and each downwardly extending slot circular arc lower-end being spaced substantially said bore-radius from the jig-plate reference-point and providing a horizontal wrench-resting shelf, thereby providing a plural number of circular arc wrench-resting shelves equal to the plural-number of lineal slots and spaced at equal angular intervals about said reference-point; (B) sturdy riser means extending rigidly downwardly from the jig-plate and located wholly below the reference horizontal plane thereof, said riser means having a lower-base means located on both lateral sides of a vertical plane passing perpendicularly through the jig-plate reference-point and being adapted to rest downwardly against the circular wheel ridge, said lower-base means being spaced substantially said ridge-radius from the jig-plate reference-point whereby the riser means at downwardly resting condition has the tendency to horizontally align the circularly arrayed wrench-resting shelves with the circularly arrayed wheel apertures; and (C) an upright topleg attached to the jig-plate and located above said horizontal plane and riser means, said topleg being laterally narrower than the riser means lower-base means and having a free-edge spaced substantially said ridge-radius from the jig-plate reference-point, said topleg free-edge providing the fixture upper terminus and being frictionally engageable with the wheel circular ridge whereby the topleg free-edge and the lower-base means together cooperatively maintain the jig-plate wrench-resting shelves horizontally aligned with the wheel apertures. 2. The wrench-holding fixture of claim 1 wherein the riser means comprises a pair of laterally separated and upwardly convergent bottomlegs attached to the jig-plate, each bottomleg terminating below the jig-plate as a base-end spaced substantially said ridge-radius from the jig-plate reference-point whereby said two laterally separated base-ends provide said lower-base means restable downwardly against the circular wheel ridge. 3. The fixture of claim 2 wherein the topleg is located wholly above all those slots that extend downwardly from the jig-plate annular-periphery, and wherein the bottomlegs are located wholly below the topleg whereby the topleg and bottomlegs do not interfere with the downward placing of a horizontal wrench into said annular-periphery slots. 4. The fixture of claim 3 wherein the bottomlegs are at lesser angles to said vertical plane than to the horizontal plane and at angles exceeding 15° with respect to the vertical plane to promote installation rigidity for the fixture during wrench usage. 5. The fixture of claim 4 wherein there is an equal number of downwardly extending slots located on both sides of said vertical plane, and wherein there are at least two downwardly extending slots located between said bottomlegs. 6. The fixture of claim 3 wherein the topleg and the bottomleg are provided of metallic structural material, and wherein the topleg at the free-edge and the bottomlegs at the base-ends are provided with relatively soft non-metallic caps. 7. The fixture of claim 6 wherein at least the topleg is provided of springy metallic material. 8. The wrench-holding fixture of claim 1 wherein there are minor-adjustment means to ensure that the fixture will conform to fractional-inch irregularities for the circular wheel ridge actually encountered by the fixture base-end means and topleg free-edge. 9. The fixture of claim 8 wherein one or more portions of the fixture are provided of manually deflectable springy metallic material. 10. The fixture of claim 8 wherein the topleg free-edge is of radially adjustable position with respect to the jig-plate outer-periphery. 11. The wrench-holding fixture of claim 2 wherein there are major-adjustment means to ensure that the fixture at topleg free-edge and at the base-means will conform to wheels of more than one nominal ridge-radius. 12. The fixture of claim 11 wherein the topleg and the bottomlegs are of adjustable lengths outwardly beyond the jig-plate outer-periphery. 13. The fixture of claim 1 wherein there is an equal number of wrench-resting shelves located on both sides of said vertical plane. 14. In removable combination with a vertically upright vehicular wheel having an inwardly horizontally extending circular ridge spaced a finite ridge-radius from the wheel geometric-center, and said vehicular wheel being provided with a finite plural-number of horizontal apertures in a circular array spaced a constant bore-radius from said geometric-center and at equal angular intervals thereabout, a frictionally engaged upright wrench-holding fixture comprising: (A) a vertically upright annular jig-plate having a larger outer-periphery surrounding a smaller annular-periphery, said jig-plate being provided with a finite plural-number of downwardly extending slots, every one of said slots being wholly downwardly linearly extending throughout and terminating as a lower-end of circular arc configuration, a plurality of said slots being as upper-slots extending wholly linearly downwardly from upper portions of the jig-plate outer-periphery, another plurality of said slots being as lower-slots extending wholly linearly downwardly from lower portions of the jig-plate annular-periphery, the vast majority of said downwardly extending slots being in linearly extending radial relationship to the jig-plate central reference-point, and each downwardly extending slot circular arc lower-end being spaced substantially said bore-radius from the wheel geometric-center and providing a horizontal wrench-resting shelf, thereby providing a finite plural-number of wrench-resting shelves equal to the plural-number of lineal slots and spaced at equal angular intervals about said geometric-center; (B) sturdy riser means extending rigidly downwardly from the jig-plate and including lower-base means resting downwardly against the circular wheel ridge, said lower-base means being spaced substantially said ridge-radius from the wheel geometric-center whereby the riser means horizontally aligns the circularly arrayed wrench-resting shelves with the circularly arrayed wheel apertures; and (C) an upright topleg attached to the jig-plate and located above said riser means, said topleg being laterally narrower than the riser means lower-base means and having a free-end spaced loftily above the jig-plate outer-periphery, said topleg free-end providing the fixture upper terminus and being frictionally engaged with the wheel circular ridge above the geometric-center thereof whereby the topleg and riser means together maintain the wrench-resting shelves horizontally aligned with the wheel apertures. 15. The combination of claim 14 wherein the riser means comprises a pair of laterally separated and upwardly convergent bottomlegs attached to the jig-plate, each bottomleg terminating as a lower base-end located at the circular wheel ridge below the wheel geometric-center; wherein the topleg is located above the bottomlegs and the lower-slots whereby the topleg does not interfere with the downward placing of a horizontal wrench into said annular-periphery lower-slots; and wherein the jig-plate outer-periphery above the wheel geometric-center is spaced away from the circular wheel ridge whereby said wheel ridge does not interfere with the downward placing of a horizontal wrench into said outer-periphery upper-slots.