Fender cleaning tire component
OwnerGirdwood L. Stinaffinventor
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Abstract
A component of a pneumatic vehicle tire comprising a multiplicity of whip-like filaments or flagella attached to and arranged circumferentially of the tire and adapted to be thrown radially outward by centrifugal force into contact with the undersurface of the adjacent fender or mud-guard for cleaning the same.
Claims9
An apparatus for use with a vehicle tire for cleaning foreign material deposits from the fender wells of the vehicle comprising at least one elongated flexible filament means having first and second end portions, hoop means for mounting said first end portion of said filament means on the vehicle tire, said hoop means being of a circumference to cooperatively engage the periphery of the vehicle tire, said filament means being of a length to extend to a position radially of said tire, and said second end of said filament means being radially movable outwardly of the tire by centrifugal action as the tire is rotated, whereby said second end portion of said filament means engages and dislodges foreign material collecting on the fender well as the tire is rotated.
An apparatus for use with a vehicle tire for cleaning foreign material deposits from the fender wells of the vehicle comprising at least one elongated strap means having first and second end portions, means for mounting said first end portion on the vehicle tire, said second end portion of said strap means having at least one elongated flexible filament means extending therefrom, said filament means being radially movable outwardly from the vehicle tire and towards the fender well by centrifugal action as the tire is rotated, whereby said filament means engages and dislodges foreign material collecting on the fender well of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.