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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7891915 | Rasp hub for tire retreading machine A rasp hub for use in tire retreading machines includes two side plates with mounting pins extending between the plates. Rasp blades arranged in stacks are mounted on the mounting pins. The stacks extend end-to-end circumferentially about the hub. The center portion... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7341407 | Rasp blade with cutting teeth laterally displaced from a planar body A tire rasp blade made with an arcuate shape having a planar body with cutting teeth at the outer working edge. The cutting teeth extend laterally relative to the planar body in alternating sets of curved sections. The curved sections preferably form a sinusoidal cu... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7101262 | Apparatus and methods for texturizing tread surfaces of tires An apparatus may include a stand, a tire mount supported by the stand and releasably attachable to a tire, a tire rasp, and a tire rasp mount attachable to the tire rasp. The tire rasp mount includes a pair of handles. A four bar support pivotally attaches the tire ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7090442 | Shaper router and method A routing tool for cutting material and an associated apparatus and method are provided. The tool includes a substantially cylindrical shaft member having a shank portion and a cutting portion. The cutting portion includes a plurality of cutting teeth disposed perip... | 08/15/2006 |
| 6682272 | Rubber cutting apparatus The present invention is directed to a rotatable abrading wheel assembly useful to finish rubber articles such as tire casings. The assembly has three rotatable wheels, with a central abrading wheel disposed between a pair of lateral support wheels. Each ... | 01/27/2004 |
| 5647698 | Tire rasp blade A tire rasp blade is provided with an elongated planar body having a working portion comprising a plurality of uniformly and closely spaced teeth which define an arcuate working perimeter. Each of the teeth has a base and a working edge and is separated f... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5461762 | Compound elliptical tire rasp blade A tire rasp blade for use in a tire buffing machine having a rotating hub. A set of rasp blades is arranged in a plurality of circumferential rows. Each of the blades has a non-planar elongated body with generally planar portions, and an arcuate working e... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5301406 | Tire rasp blade A tire rasp blade made with an arcuate shape and a plurality of sets of teeth at the outer working edge having recesses between each set of teeth. Each set of teeth is inclined in the same direction and is formed by two teeth, with the pair of teeth in ea... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5283935 | Tire rasp blade A tire rasp blade is provided with an elongated planar body having a working portion comprising a plurality of uniformly and closely spaced teeth which define an arcuate working perimeter. Each of the teeth has a base and a working edge and is separated f... | 02/08/1994 |
| 5206977 | Constructive arrangement of tire rasping separator and saw assembly There is disclosed a saw blade mounting assembly of this invention for a tire rasping apparatus, which comprises at least one rotatable cap and a plurality of pins extending orthogonally from the cap to receive the saw blade mounting assembly thereon. The... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5075942 | Tire rasp blade A tire rasp blade has a planar body portion and a working edge portion. The working edge comprises a combination of adjacent, or closely aligned teeth and spaced teeth. The trailing edges of any one adjacent tooth is displaced from the plane of the body p... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5054177 | Tire rasp blade A tire rasp blade is provided with an elongated planar body having a working portion comprising a plurality of uniformly and closely spaced teeth which define an arcuate working perimeter. Each of the teeth has a base and a working edge and is separated f... | 10/08/1991 |
| 5033175 | Tire rasp blade A tire rasp blade and rasp hub assembly is disclosed. The tire rasp blade has an elongated body and an arcuate working edge with a plurality of teeth. The elongated blade includes an angled intermediate portion and generally planar end portions, thereby e... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4906145 | Replaceable cutter blade An improved machining device is disclosed which is particularly well suited for machining of a wide variety of materials and in particular elastomeric materials such as for example synthetic rubber employed in manufacture of motor vehicle tires. The machi... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4843768 | Abrading apparatus and process for making the same An abrading apparatus formed from sheet stock and processes for making the same are disclosed. The abrading apparatus has a base with a plurality of cantilevered members extending from the periphery of the base with each cantilevered member formed to prov... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4747194 | Tire rasp blade Rasp blades for removing rubber from tire carcasses to prepare them for retreading. The improved blades have a unique arrangement of the teeth in the blade wherein a plurality of sets of teeth are formed in the working edge, and wherein each set is formed... | 05/31/1988 |
| 4336640 | Cylindrical turning tool The tool for machining pneumatic tires for vehicles comprises a plurality of peripherally consecutive, segment-shaped cutter blades, which constitute a peripheral surface of the tool and are axially spaced apart and extend in planes that are transverse to... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4291445 | Rotary cutting blade assembly A rotary cutting blade assembly for removing rubber tread material from a pneumatic tire carcass prior to texturizing and finishing the tire carcass for retreading includes a cutting wheel rotatably mounted on an arbor. The cutting wheel includes a plural... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4287648 | Tire buffing blade A bidirectional buffing blade for tire rasps with cutting and dragging teeth of the same configuration with reduced drag, improved heat transfer and cutting teeth with a substantially constant radial rake angle and land width which does not change with we... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4283820 | Segment-shaped blade A segment-shaped blade is provided for use in a rotatable cylindrical tool for machining elastic material, particularly pneumatic rubber tires for vehicles. The blade comprises pointed triangular teeth, which are provided on a convex periphery and are sta... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4283819 | Segment-shaped blade A segment-shaped blade is provided for use in a rotatable cylindrical tool for machining elastic material, particularly pneumatic rubber tires for vehicles. The blade comprises teeth defined at the convex periphery by approximately V-shaped or circular or... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4265007 | Tool for rasping A tool for rasping comprising a cylindrical drum rotatable in both directions around an axis, the drum being equipped with cutting elements which protrude exteriorly and are able to act in the two directions of rotation. The cutting elements are mounted o... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4091516 | Tire rasp blade having multi-cutting edges The outer edge of teeth of tire buffing machine blades is interrupted by oppositely curved arcuate slots which are cupped on centers disposed below the center on which the adjacent one of the leading and trailing deeper cutting side edges of the tooth are... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4077733 | Device for removing the wearing surface of a tire A device for removing the wearing surface of a tire before resurfacing includes a pair of disks detachably fixed together and having a common peripheral groove of partial circular cross-section. A number of ring-shaped cutting bits having cutting edges at... | 03/07/1978 |
| 4059875 | Tire rasp blades with renewable cutting and buffing edges Blades for tire rasps are disclosed in which the outer edge of their teeth have cutting edges inclined at a positive rake angle and cooperating buffing edges inclined at a negative rake angle, the teeth having other similarly inclined cutting and buffing ... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4021899 | Tire buffing machine blades having heat dissipation means Replaceable blades have an inner generally planar portion which is mounted between imperforate spacers of a tire buffing machine hub and an outer working edge portion which protrude beyond said spacers. Said working edge portion has spaced teeth and means... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4019234 | Tire rasp having reversible blade holder assemblies Tire rasp is disclosed for a tire buffing machine in which the blades and spacers are removably assembled in holders which in turn are removably assembled between the top and base plates of a hub comprising the tire rasp. Each holder and its assembly of b... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4012819 | Cylindrical abrading tool A cylindrical abrading tool, such as a tire rasp, has a hollow body formed from a stack of blades -- or a single helicoidally wound blade -- with toothed outer edges sandwiched between a pair of apertured end disks. The blade tiers and disks are interconn... | 03/22/1977 |