Vehicle wheel balancer with retractable cover

Details Vehicle wheel balancer with retractable cover Vehicle wheel balancer with retractable cover

1996-09-25

1998-09-08

Oda, Christine K.

Measuring and testing

Rotor unbalance

Dynamic

73487, G01M 102

Patent

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058047239

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle wheel balancer, comprising a support frame (1), a rotatable drive head (3) adapted removably to receive a wheel to be balanced, and a protective member enclosing the mounted wheel so as to prevent undesirable projection of particles outwardly and to protect the operator during rotation of the wheel. The protective member is in two parts comprising a first cover (6) fixed relative to the support frame (1) and a second cover (7) swingably retractable about a substantially horizontal axis (8) of rotation, so as to reduce the mass that must be displaced and to permit manual opening and closing of the protective member without mechanical assistance and without a counterweight and to reduce the floor space of the balancer.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3330159 (1967-07-01), Ongaro
patent: 3521495 (1970-07-01), Schildmeier
patent: 4336715 (1982-06-01), Arnold
patent: 5189912 (1993-03-01), Quinlan
patent: 5509307 (1996-04-01), Humber

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