Portable tire bead breaking apparatus
OwnerJoseph Okrepkie, Francis Bastowinventors
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Abstract
A portable bead breaking apparatus useful for breaking the bead of an ATV-type, low-pressure, balloon tire away from a safety rim upon which the tire is mounted. The apparatus applies carefully directed downward and inward pressure at opposing sides of the tire bead. By applying pressure in this manner against the bead, the bead is broken without injury to the tire and the tire may then be removed from the rim. The apparatus is portable and collapsible into a convenient storage pouch so that an ATV operator may readily carry the device with him or herself when operating the vehicle in regions remote from a tire service facility. Using the apparatus, an operator may readily remove a tire and repair damage thereto. The tire may then be remounted and reinflated.
Claims14
A portable apparatus for breaking the bead of a tire mounted on a safety rim, comprising:
- a) a longitudinal member having a proximal and a distal end;
- b) a fixed jaw rigidly attached to said longitudinal member proximate said distal end thereof;
- c) a movable jaw movably affixed to said longitudinal member proximate said proximal end thereof and manually movable along a major axis thereof;
- d) means for mounting said longitudinal member to a safety rim having a tire mounted thereupon;
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- e) means for applying both a downward and an inward motion to said jaws;
- whereby a tire bead proximate said at least one of said movable and said fixed jaws is separated from a sealing surface of said rim.
A method of removing an ATV tire from a safety rim, the steps comprising:
- a) providing a portable bead breaking apparatus adapted for breaking the bead on an ATV tire, comprising:
- a longitudinal member having a proximal and a distal end;
- a fixed jaw rigidly attached to said longitudinal member proximate said distal end thereof;
- a movable jaw movably affixed to said longitudinal member proximate said proximal end thereof and manually movable along a major axis thereof;
- means for mounting said longitudinal member to a safety rim having a tire mounted thereupon;
- and means for applying both a downward and an inward motion to said jaws;
- b) mounting said portable bead breaking apparatus to a first side of said ATV tire mounted on said safety rim;
- c) operating said portable bead breaking apparatus to break a bead of said ATV tire from said first side of said safety rim;
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- d) repeating said mounting step (b) and said operating step (c) for a second side of said ATV tire.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.