Ice and snow cleats for automobile and truck tires
OwnerJoseph Morgeseinventor
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Abstract
A method for providing additional tractionability to a vehicle tire (20) for mitigating slippery road conditions such as ice and snow. The main embodiment for the main embodiment uses three cleats (26) per tire (20) and a cleat hub (28). Chain welts (32) and adjustable bungee cords (30) complete the install to form a contiguous unit gripping around the perimeter of the tire (20). All of the individual parts are lightweight for easy distribution to the tires (20) needing traction. They are easy to install. They are quick to install at roughly five minutes per tire (20). They are also both easy and quick to dismantle. Being solid bodied members, they are easy to keep clean by quickly hosing them down and they stack up for easy storage.
Claims20
An article of manufacture comprising:
- a. a plurality of cleats, an underside of said cleats being configured to hold against a tire tread and an outerside of said cleats being configured to mitigate a slippery road surface,
- b. a cleat hub, said cleat hub being rigid in order to maintain said cleats at prescribed degrees of locality around a perimeter of said tire tread,
- c. a means for joining the plurality of cleats to the cleat hub and when joined, a contiguous unit is formed that secured and wrapped tightly around the perimeter of said tire tread,
- wherein the cleat hub has a plurality of hub sleeve housings and each of the cleats have a cleat sleeve insert configured to fit inside one of the hub sleeve housings such that the cleat sleeve insert slides inside the respective hub sleeve housing to press the cleats taut against said tire tread,
- wherein the cleat hub comprises a plurality of hub orifices with hub fastening bars therein which make hub anchoring areas,
- wherein each of the cleats have a cleat orifice with a cleat fastening bar therein which make a cleat anchoring area, and
- wherein the joining means comprise a plurality of elastic members, each elastic member configured to be anchored at one of the hub anchoring areas and one of the cleat anchoring areas in order to form the contiguous unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.