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US 9,487,056 B1Granted
Motor vehicle tire traction device for ice and snow
OwnerNicholas Doliosinventor
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Abstract
A motor vehicle tire traction device having a traction-blade plate that can be selectively mounted indefinitely to a motor vehicle tire with the plate providing sleeves for a plurality of traction blades where one or more of the blades can be quickly inserted into a traction blade sleeve providing traction to said tire wherethen the traction blade(s) can be stored until needed again.
Claims8
A motor vehicle tire traction device comprising:
- a) a traction-blade plate mountable to a motor vehicle tire having a plurality of radially arrayed sleeves for placement therein each of a traction blade;
- b) each of said plurality of traction blades being mountable within a respective traction-blade plate sleeve, said traction blade comprising a shank portion and a traction portion with the shank portion held within said sleeve, and the traction portion in engagement with and extending across tread of said motor vehicle tire;
- c) a tensive clip fastener latchable to said sleeve for holding the traction blade within said sleeve until selectively removed;
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- d) each said traction blade shank portion having a pair of divergent studs situated near a bottom of each blade with each of the studs positionable within a respective sleeve stud recess.
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A motor vehicle tire traction device comprising:
- a) a traction-blade plate mountable to a motor vehicle tire having a plurality of radially arrayed sleeves for placement therein each of a traction blade;
- b) each of said plurality of traction blades mountable within a respective traction-blade plate sleeve;
- c) a tensive clip fastener latchable to said sleeve for holding the traction blade within said sleeve until selectively removed;
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- d) said tensive clip fastener comprising a tensive clip latch portion and a tensive clip handle portion with said tensive clip latch portion pivotally mounted to said handle portion.
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A motor vehicle tire traction device comprising:
- a) a traction-blade plate mountable to a motor vehicle tire having a plurality of radially arrayed sleeves for placement therein each of a traction blade;
- b) each of said plurality of traction blades mountable within a respective traction-blade plate sleeve;
- c) a tensive clip fastener latchable to said sleeve for holding the traction blade within said sleeve until selectively removed;
- d) said tensive clip fastener comprising a pair of tensive clip latch portions and a tensive clip handle portion with said tensive clip latch portions pivotally mounted to said handle portion;
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- e) said traction-blade plate sleeve comprising a base with a pair of opposing walls having traction-blade plate sleeve stud recesses and a pair of traction-blade plate sleeve latch sockets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.