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US 4,061,173 AGranted
Tire servicing apparatus
AssigneeThe Coats Company, Inc.
InventorRobert V. Daly
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Abstract
A tire changer with bead seating apparatus including a base, a wheel support including clamps movable between wheel rim gripping and non-wheel engaging positions, a shaft rotatably journalled on the base and mounting the wheel support for rotation on the base, a device for rotating the shaft and thus the wheel support, a plurality of nozzles, one for each of the clamps, mounted on the associated clamp for movement therewith, and an air passage including a conduit in the shaft for directing air under pressure to the nozzles.
Claims6
In a tire servicing apparatus the combination of:
- a base;
- a wheel support including clamps movable between wheel rim gripping and non-wheel engaging positions;
- a shaft rotatably journalled on said base and mounting said wheel support for rotation on said base;
- means for rotating said shaft;
- a plurality of nozzles, one for at least some of said clamps, mounted on the associated clamp for movement therewith;
- and
- means, including a conduit in said shaft, for directing air under pressure to said nozzles.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.