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US 2020/0140213 A1Published application
Apparatus for handing and moving a stack of tires
OwnerDavid Strickland, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A rotary apparatus or machine that takes or receives a barrel stack of mounted tires in the vertical position (i.e., barrel stacked), and rotates the stack as a whole to a horizontal position, where each unit or tire is an upright position. The tires can then be rolled off individually or in multiple units to be installed on the equipment being built, or transported from the tire holding area to the assembly floor or installation area.
Claims12
A machine, comprising:
- a tire support beam with a first end and a second end and a medial slot extending longitudinally;
- wherein the tire support beam and tire receiving floor are adapted to move a stack of two or more tires between a substantially vertical alignment position and a substantially horizontal alignment position, or the reverse, by pivotably rotating around said first end or second end;
- further wherein said second end is free to swing between positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.