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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120125542 | Apparatus, System and Method for Determining a Spatial Location of a Match-Mark Region of Each of a Tire and a Wheel A method is disclosed. The method includes the step of determining a spatial location of a match-mark region of each of a tire and a wheel, wherein at least one of the tire and the wheel does not include a physical match mark formed upon a surface or within a body porti... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20110315286 | TIRE REPLACEMENT SYSTEM FOR FOUR-WHEEL-DRIVE COMPACT TRACTOR A system is provided for refitting a tire system on a four-wheel-drive compact tractor which typically comes equipped with a set of industrial tires mounted on standard industrial size wheels. The tractor has a frame size falling within an industry classification of ext... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110297330 | AUTOMATIC BEAD SEATER ASSEMBLY An automatic bead seating assembly to automatically move a bead seating assembly or manifold into contact with a wheel or tire assembly and cause the bead to be seated. The assembly comprises an extendable and retractable seater arm attached at one end to a base, with a... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110253318 | Tubeless Tire Seating Device A tool for seating a tubeless tire on a rim using pressurized gas includes a cylindrical pressure vessel with a pistol grip extending radially from the tank. The tool includes a rapid opening gas valve positioned between the cylindrical pressure vessel and a nozzle. In ... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110247760 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEALING TUBELESS TIRES An apparatus and method to seat a tire on a rim are described. Protrusions and a handle on the apparatus allow a user to brace the protrusions against the rim to prevent blow back when air is vented into the gap between the tire and the rim to seat the tire bead. The ai... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110226050 | RIM MOUNTING DEVICE FOR TIRE TESTING DEVICE, MAGNET MOUNTING METHOD, RIM REPLACING DEVICE AND TIRE TESTING DEVICE A rim mounting device configured in such a manner that, even if a permanent magnet breaks due to impact produced during mounting thereof by magnetic attraction, the rim mounting device can be handled easily after the breakage of the permanent magnet. The rim mounting de... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110220297 | TIRE BEAD SEATING METHOD AND APPARATUS A tire bead seating apparatus for seating tire beads on a vehicle wheel, the apparatus comprising: (a) a repositionable arm operatively coupled to a rotatable drum, the repositionable arm directing the rotatable drum into selective engagement with an inflated tire mount... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110203741 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING OF VEHICLE TYRES, AND VEHICLE TYRE A method of processing a vehicle tyre, comprising mounting the tyre to an apparatus for handling, for example moving, transporting and rotating, the tyre; and dismounting the tyre from the apparatus for handling the tyre; and a corresponding apparatus and system.... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110155329 | DEVICE FOR FITTING AND REMOVING TYRES A device for fitting and removing tires includes a support having a connecting portion associable with the movable arm of a tire changing machine, a first protruding element associated with the support and suitable to be positioned in correspondence with a section of th... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110095597 | Tire and Rim A tire and rim combination includes a pair of circular rims with each of the rims including a radially extending flange member. The flange member can be releasably fit into the perimeter groove of the tire.... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110079362 | SWING ARM STYLE TIRE CHANGER A swing arm style tire changer includes a base (1), a workbench (2), an upright stem (12), a swing arm (10) and a dismounting head (14). The swing arm (10) is attached to the upright stem (12) and is capable of rotating h... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110042015 | 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 embodimen... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20100307693 | DEVICE FOR AUTOMATICALLY SEPARATING THE TIRE AND THE RIM IN A VEHICLE WHEEL Device for automatically separating the tire and the rim in a vehicle wheel. The feed-in device feeds in vehicle wheels and a press-in device is located in an inactive position at a distance from the rim edge and is shifted to an active position. Press-in members are ad... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100139870 | HAND-HELD/PORTABLE TIRE DEMOUNTING MACHINE A tool for pulling a first and second tire bead off of a wheel assembly. The tool is inserted between the bead to be removed and the rim edge, and engages the bead to be removed with a grappling structure and pulls the bead over the rim edge by a linear drive assembly d... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100101735 | 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 the... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100065224 | Apparatus for tyre-changing machines An apparatus for tire-changing machines includes a base having a face turned upward, a supporting and locking platform for wheels, mounted rotating on such face around a rotation axis and defining a supporting and locking table, support means of tools extending upward f... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100051206 | Robotic Indexing Station A single-cell workstation for processing a tire-wheel assembly including a tire and a wheel is disclosed. The single-cell workstation includes a mounting and indexing sub-station including a first plurality of tire engaging portions including one or more first tire-enga... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20090283221 | Robotic Soaper A single-cell workstation for processing a tire-wheel assembly including a tire and a wheel is disclosed. The single cell workstation includes a soaping sub-station. The soaping sub-station includes a housing defined by a support surface and one or more walls extending ... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090236047 | Mounting press device of tire mounting/dismounting apparatus A mounting press device of a tire mounting/dismounting apparatus is provided which prevents the damage of a tire bead even in the case of a tire having high rigidity and mounts the tire to a wheel easily and speedily. A swing arm is provided with a first arm and a secon... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090173453 | TYRE FITTING MACHINE A tyre fitting machine having a wheel mounting means 1 which is mounted rotatably about a vertical axis 5 and to which a wheel rim 6 is to be fixed when fitting or removing a tyre, wherein the wheel rim 6 rests on a support surface 2 of the w... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090173452 | Method and Apparatus for Coaxially Aligning Tire with Support Rims The present invention aims to coaxially aligning a tire with support rims with high accuracy by eliminating an effect of a tread outer surface. A radial inner end position of the bead portion of the tire is detected by a photoelectric senso... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090101287 | BEAD BREAKER ROLLER HEAD FOR A TIRE MOUNTING-DEMOUNTING MACHINE The present invention relates to a work head with bead breaker roller for a tire mounting-demounting machine, suitable for bead breaking of a tire (P) from the edge (B1) of a rim (C) of a tired wheel, the work head comprising:
| 04/23/2009 |
| 20080277072 | Tire Assembling System and Tire Assembling Method A tire and a core body with rubber legs are properly mounted to a rim with no plastic deformation of the core body. After the bottom side of a pneumatic tire 14 in which a support body 16 is arranged in the interior is mounted to a rim wheel 11, a p... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080202697 | 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 the... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080128091 | Tire mounter and method of mounting tire The invention provides a tire mounter capable of preventing the tire from being damaged by minimizing a contact of a bead part of the tire relative to a wheel. In the tire mounter for receiving a wheel on which a tire is temporarily fixed aslant and mounting the tire on... | 06/05/2008 |
| 20080066873 | 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 receiving t... | 03/20/2008 |
| 20080060763 | Tire bead breaking tool and method of use An apparatus for the mounting/dismounting of tires on wheels. A bead breaker module with elongated pressure clamps pivotally moved by an actuator such that the elongated pressure clamps extend from the perimeter of a tire to a position proximal the tire side and bead; t... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080060765 | Tire bead rolling tool or tire iron and method of use An apparatus for the mounting/dismounting of tires on wheels. A bead breaker module with elongated pressure clamps pivotally moved by an actuator such that the elongated pressure clamps extend from the perimeter of a tire to a position proximal the tire side and bead; t... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080060764 | Tire mount/dismount apparatus and method of use An apparatus for the mounting/dismounting of tires on wheels. A bead breaker module with elongated pressure clamps pivotally moved by an actuator such that the elongated pressure clamps extend from the perimeter of a tire to a position proximal the tire side and bead; t... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080047670 | APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING TIRE AND WHEEL An apparatus of the present invention is designed for assembling tires having a pair of spaced beads of various diameters and configurations with the respective wheels having a pair of seats moveable by a conveyor along an assembly path. A mounter station is disposed on... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20070261796 | AUTOMATIC BEAD SEATER ASSEMBLY An automatic bead seating assembly to automatically move a bead seating assembly or manifold into contact with a wheel or tire assembly and cause the bead to be seated. The assembly comprises an extendable and retractable seater arm attached at one end to a base, with a... | 11/15/2007 |
| 20070251649 | Machine for assembling and disassembling a tyre fitted with a rigid inner run-flat ring A machine for assembling and disassembling a tyre fitted with a rigid inner run-flat ring, wherein the machine is a tyre removing machine having a turntable; a tool column located alongside the turntable and having a guide located alongside and parallel to the turntable... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070158033 | Tire changer A tire changing machine comprises a chassis and a rotatable turntable configured to retain a wheel rim. The machine further includes a tower carrying a mount/demount head movable toward and away from the wheel rim. A saddle for retaining a tire in a generally upright co... | 07/12/2007 |
| 20070079941 | 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 of th... | 04/12/2007 |
| 20070074824 | 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 axis. ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070000617 | Assembling-disassembling machine provided with a overturnable mounting-dismounting tool The present invention relates to an assembling-disassembling machine provided with a base, a rotating support device (4) for a wheel rim or tyred wheel, an upright or column element (2) extending upwards from the base, and at least one mounting/dismounting... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060254725 | Tool for automatically assembing-disassembling a tire to/from a wheel rim The present invention relates to a tire assembling-disassembling tool for use in a tire assembling-disassembling machine arranged to rotatable support a tired wheel or wheel rim, said tool being cantilever supported on a respective guide member of the tire assembling-di... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060254724 | TOOL PROTECTION DEVICE IN A TIRE ASSEMBLING-DISASSEMBLING MACHINE A protection device for tool in a tire assembling-disassembling machine, which tool (2) has at least one working slot or groove (3) designed to slidingly engage, in use, with a peripheral edge of a wheel rim (C) located on the tire assembling-disassembling... | 11/16/2006 |
| 20060196610 | Tire working tool A tire working tool comprising a lever arm and a clevis is disclosed. The lever arm including a first working end adapted to work the clevis and a second working end adapted to work a second tire bead. The first working end preferably extends generally axially from the ... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060151121 | Bead breaker A tire bead breaker for breaking a tire bead between a tire and a rim or wheel to allow for easy removal of the tire from the wheel includes a main chassis, an activator unit, and an actuation arm. In one preferred embodiment, the activator unit is a pneumatic airbag. T... | 07/13/2006 |
