Lift for use in processing buffed tires
AssigneeNoyes Tire Co.
InventorRichard H. Detwiler
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Abstract
A lift for use in such buffed tire processing operations as inspection, repair and cementing thereof has a carriage supported by a vertical post so as to be moved as by a ram between a lower inoperative position and an upper operative position. A pair of horizontal, motor driven shafts are connected to the carriage and in the inoperative shaft position, a buffed tire or tires supported by the free end of a hanger of a mobile rack may be brought into a position in which the shafts extend freely therethrough. In the operative position of the carriage, the tire or tires through which the shafts extend are supported entirely thereby so that they may be rotated and processed and the carriage then lowered until the processed tires are again supported by the hanger of the mobile rack.
Claims9
A tire lift for use in processing a predetermined maximum number of buffed tires supported by the free end of a hanger of a mobile rack, said lift including a base, a vertical post supported by said base, a carriage slidably attached to said post, a pair of horizontal shafts rotatably supported by said carriage and closely spaced in a transverse plane, power operated means connected to one end of at least one shaft and operable to rotate it, said shafts otherwise free and of substantial length thus to enable said number of tires to be accommodated thereon, means connected to said post and said carriage and operable to raise and lower said carriage between a low, inoperative position and an elevated operative position at a height such as to enter freely through any tire on the free end of said hanger when the rack is so positioned as to effect such entry and said shafts, in said operative carriage position, supporting any such tire free of said hanger enabling the rotation and processing thereof, the carriage when returned to its inoperative position leaving any processed tire again supported by the mobile rack hanger, and said base underlying the tire supporting portions of said shafts to an extent such that the said shafts are cantilevers enabling said maximum number of tires to be held thereby and said base so formed and disposed as to enable said rack to be brought into position without interference therefrom to permit tire transfers to and from said shaft with the free end of the hanger close to the post.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.