What type of puller is this?

[kcombs]

I inherited this years ago and I have no use for it. Anybody have any idea of what it is used for?

[Jimbo]

Looks like an antique steering wheel puller ???

[vinnie]

I would say that with the fingers pointing out it would be a bearing or seal puller.

[telriv]

kcombs,

   That's a drum puller for older cars where you had to remove a cotter pin, a nut & a washer. Then you installed the puller with the 3 arms & used the lug nuts to hold them to the drum. You wound it up until the center part touched the axle & with a BMFH (a big Mother Fkin hammer) you wacked the leg until the drum popped from the axle. 
It was used on MANY old cars. I still have mine I bought in the very early 60's.  They take a beating that's for sure. No China stuff would hold up today to the beating it takes to remove some of those drums.

Tom T.

[telriv]

I already replied to this But it didn't get posted. The puller is for the drums on older cars from the early 40's to the late 50's.

Tom T.

[35chevcoupe]

Ive used one many many times , like Tom says usually for pulling drums . I was kind of an AMC nut growing up and used it to pull the axle flange on the rear axle of AMC cars . They had a splined hub that slid onto a key wayed axle shaft and if i had good traction and dumped the clutch i would shear the keyway off . AHHH the memories . I'm sure theres many other uses for .

[kcombs]

Thanks everybody! I guess I will keep it in case I buy another 1951 Chevy Sedan Delivery, had one mid-sixties..... 

[TrunkMonkey]

Pretty sure that puller was manufactured by a company called Stump...