Automobile body roll sander

Claim 1

A vehicle body panel sander and grinder assembly adapted to be hand held and propelled over a body panel, said assembly including a frame, a drum assembly journalled from said frame and having an abrasive outer surface, a pair of rollers also journaled from said frame at opposite ends of said drum assembly for rotation about axes coinciding with the axis of rotation of the drum, the rollers including resilient outer peripheral portions of substantially equal diameter and slightly larger in diameter than the diameter of the drum assembly defined by said outer surface, one end portion of said drum assembly including torque receiving means adapted to have torque input drive means drivingly coupled thereto, said frame including portions outwardly of the remote sides of parallel planes in which said rollers are disposed for gripping by the two hands of the user of the assembly, said resilient outer peripheral portions being such to support said frame and drum from a vehicle body panel with said drum spaced from said panel, but sufficiently yieldable, under manual pressure, to deform at their areas of contact with said panel sufficient to enable contact of said abrasive outer surface of said drum assembly with said panel.