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US 2009/0288781 A1Published application
Apparatus for mounting tires on large wheels
OwnerReed Vanhouten, Jeremy Gunsolusinventors
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Abstract
A device for mounting a tire on a wheel that includes a locking ring to hold the tire in place on the wheel, where the device includes a locking member which locks to the rim of the wheel and includes a cross bar with depending feet, which is connected to the locking member and is movable toward the locking member with the depending feet engaged with the locking ring to press the locking ring into locking engagement with the wheel.
Claims10
For use in mounting a tire on a wheel having a rim which includes a retainer ring, an “O” ring and a locking ring;
- apparatus, including a mounting member, for mounting the tire on the wheel without removing the wheel from its vehicle;
- said apparatus including a lateral locking member engageable with the wheel rim to position and secure said mounting member relative thereto;
- a cross bar assembly, said cross bar assembly being parallel to said mounting device, and movably connected thereto;
- said cross bar assembly being movable toward and away from said lateral cross bar, whereas movement toward said lateral cross bar results in pressure on said locking ring to move said locking ring into locking engagement on said wheel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.