Resilient tires and wheels – Tires – resilient – Anti-skid devices
Patent
1985-01-22
1987-07-14
Czaja, Donald E.
Resilient tires and wheels
Tires, resilient
Anti-skid devices
24 68TT, 24299, 24301, 81 158, 152219, 152242, B60C 2712
Patent
active
046796088
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle tire chain has an openable and closable inner and outer support engaging, in a mounted state of the chain, respective inner and outer sides of a vehicle tire, a plurality of runner chains each secured to the inner and outer supports and straddling, in the mounted state of the chain, a running face of the tire. The outer support has a first part supporting the runner chains jointly with the inner support and a deflecting member secured to an end of the first part. The outer support further has a second part including a closing linkage for closing the first part under tension. The closing linkage has a first end secured to another end of the first part, a second end passed through the deflecting member and a hook secured to said second end of the closing linkage and releasably attached to the first part of the outer support in the mounted state of the chain. The closing linkage is deflected by more than 90.degree. by the deflecting member. The closing linkage further has an elastic tensioning member having a resilient path of expansion in excess of 100 mm.
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patent: 1358391 (1920-11-01), Pendleton
patent: 1417560 (1922-05-01), Pendleton
patent: 1567621 (1925-12-01), Salsburg
patent: 1600678 (1926-09-01), Kistinger
patent: 2316718 (1943-04-01), Royer
patent: 2328808 (1943-09-01), Holtz
Bokan Thomas
Czaja Donald E.
Steirische Kettenfabriken Pengg-Walenta KG
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