US Patent: 679,161
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| Tire Tightener
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Patentee:
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| William Schau (exact or similar names) - Sheffield, Colbert County, AL |
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Patent Dates:
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| Applied: |
Jan. 28, 1901 |
| Granted: |
Jul. 23, 1901 |
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Joel Havens
"Vintage Machinery" entry for Burtt Mfg. Co.
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Description: |
| This invention relates to improvements and advantageous modifications of the tire tightener patented to me in United States Letters Patent No. 632,152, dated 29 August, 1899. I have found some modifications and improvements in the general design of my improved tire-tightener to be desirable in order to make the same more efficient to the ends sought, and I find that it has been possible to greatly simplify the structure and increase its effectiveness and the speed of. operation.
Claim:
The particular objects of this invention are, then, first, to simplify the entire structure; second, to make the structure completely and quickly adjustable for use, making it what might be called self-adjusting, third,to provide an improved adjusting means for adapting the machine to tires of different widths as well as to wheels of different sizes; fourth, to provide improved engaging jaws for the tire in this relation that avoid any possibility of injury to the felly; fifth, to provide improved retaining and guiding means for the tire to positively prevent the same buckling or being raised into a loop at the point of tightening; sixth, to provide an improved tire-tightener in which the working parts are easily accessible, so that it will be possible by inspection to note the exact adjustment of the machine; seventh, to provide an improved actuating means for the tire-guides, which insures a positive movement of the same in both directions, and, eighth, to provide an improved structure for guiding the tire-tightener into position. |
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