Measuring and testing – Tire – tread or roadway – Tire inflation testing installation
Patent
1980-04-29
1982-08-17
Gill, James J.
Measuring and testing
Tire, tread or roadway
Tire inflation testing installation
G01M 1702
Patent
active
043443257
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for setting slip and/or camber angles in a tire testing machine having a rotating wheel to serve as a substitutional road, the angle setting mechanism including: a support shaft adapted to support a tire at the center thereof for contact with the rotating wheel a swingable linkage provided between the tire support shaft and a movable frame of the testing machine and essentially constituted by four trapezoidally connected link levers having a pair of outwardly converging side link levers, an outer link lever having the opposite ends thereof pivotally connected to the outer converging ends of the side link levers and centrally fixed to the inner end of the tire support shaft, and an inner link lever having the opposite ends thereof pivotally connected to the inner ends of the side link levers and fixedly supported on the movable frame of the testing machine; and a mechanism for swinging the outer link lever back and forth in a direction substantially parallel to the surface of the movable frame to the axis of the tire support shaft for tilting the tire support shaft from the center line of the tire.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3797306 (1974-03-01), Petersen et al.
patent: 4160378 (1979-07-01), Himmler
(Kobe Steel, Ltd.)
Gill James J.
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