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US 3,945,277 AGranted
Tire conditioning and truing apparatus
OwnerC. Bernie McGehee, J. Samuel Rees +1inventors
InventorsC. Bernie McGehee, J. Samuel Rees, Luther J. Johnson, Jr.
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for conditioning a tire for truing by removing flat spots, and for subsequently truing the tire. Tire conditioning is accomplished by applying heat directly to the tire sidewalls and by concurrently rotating the tire while laterally maintaining tire position with rollers. Tire truing apparatus includes a mandrel which may be adjustably supported by the tire conditioning apparatus, and a truing cutter mounted at an elevated location to reduce or eliminate clogging with removed rubber.
Claims1
Tire conditioning and truing apparatus comprising:
- housing means defining an interior region dimensioned to receive a tire to be conditioned;
- rotatable support roller means mounted in said housing means to rotatably support a tire received in said interior region;
- motive means operably disposed in said housing means to impart rotation to a tire disposed on said support roller means;
- pressure roller means disposed in said housing means to selectively apply force tending to resiliently deform a tire disposed on said support roller means;
- heater means dispositioned in said housing means to apply heat directly to each of the sidewalls of a tire disposed on said support roller means;
- a mandrel rotatably mounted in a horizontal plane on said housing means and including a tire connective portion;
- cutting means supported by said housing means in proximate relation with respect to a certain location on the tread surface of a tire received on said connective portion;
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- drive means mounted on said housing means for selective engagement with the tire tread surface in elevated relation to said certain location for imparting rotation to a tire received on said connective portion.
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