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US 12,496,859 B2Granted
Tire traction device
OwnerPeter L. Levyinventor
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Abstract
A tire traction device for a motor vehicle wheel having a simple radial rod construction coupled to a standard wheel lug bolt via a conical mounting bracket and stabilizing rod set cable coupling.
Claims10
A tire traction device for a motor vehicle wheel comprising:
- the motor vehicle wheel with a tire and a lug configuration having a hub mounting plate coupled to the wheel with a lug bolt-nut set;
- the mounting plate having an inner concentric ring of wheel bolt holes and an outer concentric ring of holes with a transition region from the inner hole ring to the outer concentric hole ring and conically outward from the inner to the outer concentric ring;
- the outer ring having an at least 5 hole set for bolt-nut fastener coupling for at least 5 tire rods;
- each tire rod coupled to the mounting plate, and outer ring hole set, positioned in the wheel radial plane having a rod length extending to the wheel tire tread;
- each tire rod having two ends, a first end having a hole for coupling the mounting plate through an outside ring hole and a second end having a component orthogonal to the wheel radial plane, adjacent and parallel to the tire tread, the rod having a distal end with bent tip extending towards the wheel radial center, and
- each orthogonal component having two surfaces parallel to the tire tread, a first surface adjacent to the tire tread and a second surface facing away from the tire and adjacent to a road surface for providing traction to the tire under wheel rotation,
- such that an installed mounting plate on the motor vehicle wheel provides a way to increase wheel traction using a single nut per traction rod providing added wheel traction.
4 more elements
A method for a motor vehicle wheel tire traction device comprising the steps of:
- coupling a motor vehicle wheel with a lug configuration hub with a mounting plate coupled to the wheel with a lug bolt-nut set;
- providing the mounting plate with an inner concentric ring of wheel bolt holes and an outer concentric ring of holes, the inner and outer rings having a transition region from the inner hole ring to the outer concentric hole ring and conically outward from the inner to the outer concentric ring;
- providing the mounting plate outer ring with at least a 5 hole set for bolt-nut fastener coupling for at least 5 tire rods;
- coupling each tire rod to the mounting plate, and outer ring hole set, the rods positioned in the wheel radial plane having a rod length extending to the tire tread;
- having each tire rod with two ends, a first end coupled to the mounting plate through an outside ring hole for nut-and-bolt fastener and a second end having a component orthogonal to the wheel radial plane, adjacent and parallel to the tire tread, the rod having a distal end with bent tip extending towards the wheel radial center, and
- providing each rod with a distal end orthogonal component with two surfaces parallel to the tire tread surface, a first surface adjacent to the tire tread and a second surface facing away from the tire and adjacent a road surface for providing traction to the tire under wheel rotation,
- such that an installed mounting plate on the motor vehicle wheel provides a way to increase wheel traction using a single nut per traction rod providing added wheel traction.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.