Measuring and testing – Tire – tread or roadway – Tire inflation testing installation
Patent
1997-12-10
2000-07-04
Felber, Joseph L.
Measuring and testing
Tire, tread or roadway
Tire inflation testing installation
G01M 1702
Patent
active
060821914
ABSTRACT:
An inlet conveyor for conveying tires through a tire uniformity testing system includes a tire centering mechanism and a pair of conveyor belts for delivering tires to a tire testing station. A fixed conveyor having rollers on which tires can easily slide is secured to a frame that supports the centering mechanism. The conveyor belts are reeved around respective pulleys and are supported by support rails fixed to and extending away from the centering mechanism in cantilever fashion. A conveyor elevator is raised or lowered with respect to the frame unit to raise or lower the support rails and conveyor belts to either engage or disengage a tire resting on the fixed conveyor. The support rails and conveyor belts are adjustable in a lateral direction to vary the width of the space between the belts to accommodate different size tires. The conveyor belts are advanced by a rotary pneumatic actuator that precisely controls the distance the belts move to position the tire with respect to the testing station. The inlet conveyor is mechanically isolated from the testing station so that disturbances affecting the inlet conveyor are not transmitted to the testing station. The inlet conveyor is movable with respect to the testing station to reverse the direction of tire flow through the testing machine.
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Exhibit 1--photograph of a prior tire testing machine known as M-82.
Exhibit 2--photograph of a prior tire testing machine known as FD90.
Exhibits 3-4, photographs of a prior tire testing machine known as D90.
Exhibit 5--photograph of a prior tire testing machine known as D92.
Exhibits 6-7, photographs of a prior tire uniformity machine, Model 2D80.
Exhibit 8--photograph of a prior tire testing machine.
Exhibits 9-24--photographs of a prior tire testing machine known as D70.
Eagle Picher, Akron Standard Division, product brochure submitted in its entirety, entitled "Are you really saving when you buy used Tire Uniformity Machines? Or . . . ", date unknown.
2 page product brochure of a prior tire testing machine entitled "Tire Uniformity Equipment", date unknown.
Eagle Picher, Akron Standard Division, product brochure submitted in its entirety, entitled "The Standard of the World", date unknown.
Advertisement showing a prior tire testing machine known as 2D80.
A copy of an Akron Standard product brochure entitled "Setting The Standards for the World", submitted in its entirety, date unknown.
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Akron Standard Sales Specification for Tire Uniformity Machines, Series D70, Apr. 1997.
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One page advertisement showing a prior tire testing machine known as X75-13 TUO, Akron Special Machinery, Inc., date unknown.
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Exhibitsn 29-39 from Hofmann Maschinenbau Gmbh, drawing showing prior tire testing machines, copyright 1994.
Bormet Francis J.
Cukelj Richard
Krieger Richard L.
Lees, Sr. David W.
Neiferd Keith A.
Felber Joseph L.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
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