Land vehicles: wheels and axles – Wheel – Device for attaching wheel to axle
Reexamination Certificate
2000-06-09
2001-09-11
Dayoan, D. Glenn (Department: 3612)
Land vehicles: wheels and axles
Wheel
Device for attaching wheel to axle
C301S121000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06286910
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to wheel changing devices and more particularly pertains to a new vehicle wheel attachment system for easily changing a tire.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of wheel changing devices is known in the prior art. More specifically, wheel changing devices heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,042,880; U.S. Pat. No. 4,225,191; U.S. Pat. No. 4,477,121; U.S. Pat. No. 3,829,163; U.S. Pat. No. 4,961,668; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 381,609.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new vehicle wheel attachment system. The inventive device includes a rim, an attachment assembly and a rotor. The attachment assembly extends from a first side of the rim. The rotor has a central aperture that receives a distal portion of the attachment assembly therein when the first side of the rim is positioned to abut the rotor. The rotor has plurality of holes that extend into a wall of the central aperture of the rotor. The distal portion of the attachment assembly includes a plurality of rods that are selectively positioned between an extended position and a retracted position. Each of the rods is aligned with an associated one of the holes when the distal portion of the attachment assembly is inserted into the central aperture of the rotor. The rods are selectively extendable into the holes. Thus the distal end of the attachment assembly is coupled to the rotor such that rotation of the rotor rotates the rim.
In these respects, the vehicle wheel attachment system according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of easily changing a tire.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of wheel changing devices now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new vehicle wheel attachment system construction wherein the same can be utilized for easily changing a tire.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system apparatus and method which has many of the advantages of the wheel changing devices mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new vehicle wheel attachment system which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art wheel changing devices, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a rim, an attachment assembly and a rotor. The attachment assembly extends from a first side of the rim. The rotor has a central aperture that receives a distal portion of the attachment assembly therein when the first side of the rim is positioned to abut the rotor. The rotor has plurality of holes that extend into a wall of the central aperture of the rotor. The distal portion of the attachment assembly includes a plurality of rods that are selectively positioned between an extended position and a retracted position. Each of the rods is aligned with an associated one of the holes when the distal portion of the attachment assembly is inserted into the central aperture of the rotor. The rods are selectively extendable into the holes. Thus the distal end of the attachment assembly is coupled to the rotor such that rotation of the rotor rotates the rim.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system that may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system that is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such vehicle wheel attachment system economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system for easily changing a tire.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system which includes a rim, an attachment assembly and a rotor. The attachment assembly extends from a first side of the rim. The rotor has a central aperture that receives a distal portion of the attachment assembly therein when the first side of the rim is positioned to abut the rotor. The rotor has plurality of holes that extend into a wall of the central aperture of the rotor. The distal portion of the attachment assembly includes a plurality of rods that are selectively positioned between an extended position and a retracted position. Each of the rods is aligned with an associated one of the holes when the distal portion of the attachment assembly is inserted into the central aperture of the rotor. The rods are selectively extendable into the holes. Thus the distal end of the attachment assembly is coupled to the rotor such that rotation of the rotor rotates the rim.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system that allows a tire to be changed quickly.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new vehicle wheel attachment system that will prevent the tire and rim from being stolen.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated preferred embodiments of
Dayoan D. Glenn
Engle Patricia
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