Wheel crushing and tire cutting apparatus

Details Wheel crushing and tire cutting apparatus Wheel crushing and tire cutting apparatus

1997-10-14

1999-02-09

Rosenbaum, Mark

Solid material comminution or disintegration

Apparatus

Combined or convertible

83951, 100100, 100232, 24110172, 24110176, 241DIG31, B02C 1912

Patent

active

058683283

ABSTRACT:
A wheel crushing apparatus for crushing scrap vehicle wheels to prepare the scrap wheels for recycling, the scrap wheels having a tire mounted on the wheel, consists of an engine, a hydraulic pump driven by the engine, a single hydraulic cylinder and piston driven by the hydraulic pump, a crushing head to hold the wheel and tire for crushing the wheel, a number of crushing arms concentric about the crushing head, and radially movable between an extended position wherein the crushing arms contact the tire tread and a contracted position wherein the wheel is crushed, and a linkage connecting all of the crushing arms to the single hydraulic piston, so that all of the crushing arms are driven by the single hydraulic piston between the extended position and the contracted position.

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Multitek, Inc., Squeeze Greater Profits out of Scrap Wheels. . . .
Recyclers Power Source, May, 1997, pp. 3,4,19,31.

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