US 2010/0304647 A1Published application

Wheel polishing rotary stand

OwnerStephane Boisjoliinventor

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Abstract

A device for polishing wheels of truck or cars without removing the valve or the tire of the wheel. The device comprises three parts: a rotative assembly fixed to a stand subject to an angular movement and housed upon a pendulum in extension. The rotative assembly includes a motor connected to a primary speed reducer 10:1 linked to a second speed reducer 60:1 fixed to a jaw turning at an average speed of 3 rpm, on which a wheel is positioned. The device is auto lubricating when a relative orientation of one reducer with respect to the other at 15° allows to maintain oil level in a critical reducer to prevent friction of mobile part inside the critical reducer. The pendulum possesses a pair of wheels to permit the displacement of the assembly on the ground while an actuator located on the pendulum causes the angular movement of the stand.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An auto-lubricating device for polishing a wheel, comprising a rotative assembly (20) sitting over a stand (22) comprising angular means of positionning, a pendulum (23) for maintaining said device in balance upon a floor, and a linear actuator (42) positionned between said stand and said pendulum and causing said angular positionning;

said rotative assembly (20) comprising a motor (46), a primary reducer (30), a coupling plate (44), a gear reducer (26) and a drive-shaft (28) powering a wheel holding jaw (36);
said motor (46) being connected to said primary reducer (30) to reduce the rotation speed thereof, said primary reducer being connected with said gear reducer (26) through said coupling plate (44), said gear reducer turning said drive-shaft and said jaw (36) wherein a wheel is positioned to be polished;
said coupling plate (44) being installed between said primary and gear reducers and being positionned next to said primary reducer at an angle (34) to said gear reducer, said primary reducer thereby maintaining a level of oil allowing the lubrication of its internal parts.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/799,642Filed 29 Apr 2010
Priority: 27 May 2009
Published: 2 Dec 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

B24B 29/04
Designed for particular workpieces: for rotationally symmetrical workpieces, e.g. ball-, cylinder- or cone-shaped workpieces
B24B 41/06
Component parts such as frames, beds, carriages, headstocks: work supports, e.g. adjustable steadies
B60S 3/042
For exteriors of land vehicles: wheel cleaning devices
Y10T 29/53961
Means to assemble or disassemble: with work-holder for assembly