Wheelwright machines inventions 03/08

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 the circumferential bead, the installation tool... Agent: Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

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; the actuator urges the elongated pressure... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

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; the actuator urges the elongated pressure... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

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; the actuator urges the elongated pressure... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20080060768 - Device for tyre disassembling machines designed to simplify tyre assembling without excessive stretching: The present invention relates to an improved device for tyre disassembling machines in general, designed to simplify tyre assembling on rim without excessive stretching.... Agent: Hodes, Pessin & Katz, P.A.

20080060766 - Machine for fitting and removing tyres and wheel rims for vehicles: The machine for removing and fitting tyres and wheel rims for vehicles comprises a supporting structure of clamping and rotating device for clamping and rotating the rim of a vehicle wheel around a rotation axis, at least one operating unit which is associated moving with the supporting structure and which... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080060767 - Machine for fitting and removing vehicle wheels: The machine also comprises a transformation device for transforming the sliding movement of the clamping and rotating device into a movement of variation of the inclination of the operating arm in which the arm itself is kept continuatively in the operating configuration as the position of the clamping and rotating... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20080060769 - Tire bead breaking tool: A bead breaker tool with elongated pressure clamps/arms 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 beads. The actuator urges the elongated pressure clamps together to disengage the tire bead from the... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20080060762 - Bead breaking unit for tyre changing machines: The bead breaking unit also comprises an adjustment device for adjusting the trajectory of the bead breaking tool when moving between the idle position and the working position, which are interposed between the base and the arm and suitable for defining a first operating configuration in which the trajectory is... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC