Coil spring compressing tool

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A COMPRESSION SPRING COMPRESSING TOOL COMPRISING AN ADJUSTABLE CLAMP ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A PAIR OF HOOK MEMBERS INCLUDING GENERALLY AXIALLY ALIGNED SUBSTANTIALLY STRAIGHT SHANK PORTIONS SPACED APART AT THEIR ADJACENT ENDS AND INCLUDING BACKTURNED HOOK PORTIONS ON THEIR REMOTE ENDS PROJECTING OUTWARDLY OF CORRESPONDING SIDES OF SAID SHANK PORTIONS AND OPENING TOWARD EACH OTHER ADAPTED TO SNUGLY RECEIVE CORRESPONDING PORTIONS OF A PAIR OF CONVOLUTIONS OF A COMPRESSION SPRING HAVING TWO OR MORE CONVOLUTIONS OF SAID SPRING DISPOSED THEREBETWEEN, ONE OF SAID ADJACENT ENDS INCLUDING AN APERTURED LATERALLY DIRECTED PORTION PROJECTING TO THE SIDE OF SAID ONE END PORTION OPPOSITE TO THE SIDE THEREOF TO WHICH THE CORRESPONDING HOOK PORTION PROJECTS, THE OTHER OF SAID ADJACENT ENDS INCLUDING A SMOOTHLY CURVED BACKTURNED END PORTION DEFINING A SEMI-CYLINDRICAL POCKET OPENING TOWARD AND OPPOSING SAID APERTURED LATERALLY DIRECTED PORTION AND HAVING A CIRCUMFERENTIAL SLOT FORMED THEREIN INTERMEDIATE ITS OPPOSITE ENDS, AN ABUTMENT MEMBER INCLUDING A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL PORTION SEATED IN SAID POCKET AND HAVING A TRANSVERSE BORE FORMED THERETHROUGH REGISTERED WITH SAID SLOT, A BOLT EXTENDING THROUGH SAID APERTURED LATERALLY DIRECTION PORTION AND SAID SLOT AND SAID TRANSVERSE BORE AND BEING SECURED TO SAID ABUTMENT MEANS, SAID SHANK PORTIONS EACH BEING OF A LENGTH ADAPTED TO SPPAN AT LEAST TWO ADJACENT CONVOLUTIONS OF SAID SPRING.