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US 11,953,403 B1Granted
Stagger wheel
OwnerRobert Gillespieinventor
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Abstract
A stagger wheel for quickly determining the left side or right side rear tire outer circumference necessary to achieve a desired amount of stagger.
Claims7
A stagger wheel comprising:
- a first disk defining a first disk bore and having a first face, a second face opposite the first face of the first disk, a first disk outer circumference comprising stagger indicia representing an amount of stagger;
- a second disk defining a second disk bore and having a first face, a second face opposite the first face of the second disk, a second disk outer circumference comprising tire indicia representing an outer circumference of a left rear tire or right rear tire;
- a shaft received within the first disk bore and the second disk bore, a first end of the shaft secured to the first face of the first disk and the second end of the shaft secured to the first face of the second disk;
- wherein the second face of the first disk is adjacent to the second face of the second disk and the first disk and the second disk rotate independently on the shaft.
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A method of determining a right rear tire outer circumference of a vehicle based on a left rear tire outer circumference of the vehicle using a stagger wheel comprising:
- receiving input of the left rear tire outer circumference of the vehicle;
- determining an amount of stagger desired from the right rear tire of the vehicle relative to the left rear tire of the vehicle;
- rotating a second disk of the stagger wheel, mounted on a shaft adjacent to a first disk of the stagger wheel to the left rear tire outer circumference of the vehicle represented by tire indicia on an outer circumference of the second disk, such that the tire indicia of the second disk representing the left rear tire outer circumference is aligned with a zero of a stagger indicia on an outer circumference of the first disk of the stagger wheel;
- while maintaining the first disk and the second disk stationary, searching for the determined amount of stagger desired in the stagger indicia of the first disk and determining indicia on the second disk aligned with the determined amount of stagger desired in the stagger indicia of the first disk to output the right rear tire outer circumference for the vehicle corresponding to the amount of stagger desired and left rear tire outer circumference.
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A method of determining a left rear tire outer circumference of a vehicle based on a right rear tire outer circumference of the vehicle using a stagger wheel comprising:
- receiving input of the right rear tire outer circumference of the vehicle;
- determining an amount of stagger desired from the left rear tire of the vehicle relative to the right rear tire of the vehicle;
- rotating a first disk of the stagger wheel, mounted on a shaft adjacent to a second disk of the stagger wheel to the amount of stagger represented by stagger indicia on an outer circumference of the first disk of the stagger wheel, such that the stagger indicia representing the amount of stagger is aligned with tire indicia on an outer circumference of the second disk representing the right rear tire outer circumference;
- while maintaining the first disk and the second disk stationary, searching for the zero stagger indicia on the outer circumference of the first disk and determining tire indicia on the second disk aligned with the zero of the stagger indicia of the first disk to output the left rear tire outer circumference for the vehicle corresponding to the amount of stagger desired and right rear tire outer circumference.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.