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US 6,604,610 B2Granted
Apparatus for supporting automotive tires
AssigneeTire Hanger Corporation
InventorsRoy Starling, Anthony C. Gibson, Martin Roden
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Abstract
An apparatus for supporting automotive tires is provided having a hanger pin adapted to fit through the mount hole of a vehicle wheel. The apparatus is intended to be installed on an automotive hoist at a height approximately the same as that of a tire of a vehicle disposed on the hoist. A worker removing a wheel from the vehicle disposed on the hoist can thus hang the wheel on the apparatus without significantly bending at the waist.
Claims11
A hoist used in raising and lowering an automotive vehicle, comprising:
- a moving member that raises and lowers along with the raising and lowering of the vehicle;
- a mount body disposed on the moving member;
- a hanger extending from the mount body, positioned, sized and dimensioned to receive and support a tire/wheel assembly removed from the vehicle and placed thereon while the vehicle is in a raised position;
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- a vertical member, and the moving member is substantially perpendicularly cantilevered off the vertical member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.