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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182639 | Weight applicator for a wheel and method for utilizing the same A weight applicator for a wheel of a tire-wheel assembly is disclosed. The weight applicator includes an arm portion and an applicator portion connected to the arm portion. The applicator includes a radially-extending flange portion. The radially-extending flange po... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8176960 | System for transporting and manipulating tires and wheels A factory layout including a track circuit, one or more wheeled carts for traversing the track circuit and a tire/wheel assembly carried by the wheeled cart. One or more work stations can be positioned at locations along the track circuit. Various wheeled cart embod... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8161650 | Workcell for tire and wheel assembly including a tire inflating sub-station that utilizes a flexible flip seal An apparatus for assembling a tire and a wheel is disclosed. The apparatus includes a single-cell workstation including a device that retains a wheel, and a plurality of sub-stations. The device moves the wheel to each of the plurality of sub-stations, without relea... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161632 | Flip seal apparatus and system and method for inflating a tire using the same An inflator device is disclosed. The inflator device includes a seal assembly that maintains, while sealing from ambient pressure, an open air passageway between a tire bead and wheel bead seat during an inflation procedure. A seal for the inflator device is also di... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7845655 | System for transporting and manipulating tires and wheels A factory layout including a track circuit, one or more wheeled carts for traversing the track circuit and a tire/wheel assembly carried by the wheeled cart. One or more work stations can be positioned at locations along the track circuit. Various wheeled cart embod... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7712510 | Tire installation tool An installation tool for mounting a tire to a wheel, the tire and wheel defining a central axis, the tire having opposing annular sides and two circumferential beads that define an opening through the opposing annular sides and the wheel having shoulders for receivi... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7640963 | Tire/wheel bead entrapment remover A tire/wheel bead entrapment remover is disclosed. The tire/wheel bead entrapment remover includes one or more working assemblies having a circumferential perimeter that substantially engages a tire. The one or more working assemblies axially-moves one of a wheel of... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7621311 | Tire-wheel assembly adjuster A tire-wheel assembly adjuster is disclosed. The tire-wheel assembly comprises a working assembly adapted to be adjustable along an axis relative a workpiece and a sub-assembly coupled to the working assembly that is adapted to be radially adjustable relative the ax... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7556470 | Nested-stacked tire separator and bottom unstacker with inflator A device for separating individual tires that have become entwined including a movable head for engaging at least one tire in a stack of tires, an engaging finger coupled to the movable head, and at least one manipulating apparatus for moving the engaging finger and... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7367375 | Tire/wheel bead entrapment remover A tire/wheel bead entrapment remover is disclosed. The tire/wheel bead entrapment remover includes one or more working assemblies having a circumferential perimeter that substantially engages a tire. The one ore more working assemblies axially-moves one of a wheel o... | 05/06/2008 |
