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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
May. 27, 2022
Inteva Products, Llc, Troy, MI (US);
Brian H. Staser, Oxford, CT (US);
Francis C. Strasek, Rocky River, OH (US);
Kenneth Gassman, Lake Orion, MI (US);
INTEVA PRODUCTS, LLC, Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for stowing and deploying a vehicle tire from a rear portion of a vehicle, the apparatus including: a raising and lowering mechanism for moving the tire a stowed position to a deployed position, wherein the tire when in the deployed position is lowered and extended laterally in order to provide access to the tire. An apparatus for stowing and deploying a vehicle tire from a rear portion of a vehicle, the apparatus including: a raising and lowering mechanism for moving the vehicle tire a stowed position to a deployed position, wherein the raising and lowering mechanism has a feature that is configured to be engaged by an adapter of a hand held power driver so that the vehicle tire can be stowed and deployed via the hand held power driver. An apparatus for stowing and deploying a vehicle tire from a rear portion of a vehicle, the apparatus including: a raising and lowering mechanism for moving the vehicle tire between a stowed position and a deployed position, wherein the raising and lowering mechanism has a fixture that releasably engages a rim of the vehicle tire, the feature having a first configuration where the fixture engages opposite sides of the rim of the vehicle tire and a second configuration where portions of the fixture can pass through an opening in the rim of the vehicle tire.