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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1997
Franco Maioli, Correggio, IT;
Gino Ferrari, Correggio, IT;
FEMAS s.r.l., Reggio Emilia, IT;
Abstract
An apparatus for fitting, with perfect axial alignment, motor vehicle wheels of any size on the horizontal shaft of a machine, typically a wheel balancing machine, comprises two mutually facing and superimposed jaws which are moved so as to perform a mutual approach and spacing motion, by means of which they engage the tire of the wheel to be checked and/or that has already been checked and respectively disengage from the tire; a vertical motion, by means of which the jaws move between a lowered position, in which they can receive the wheel to be checked and remove the checked wheel, and a raised position, in which the jaws are arranged in a mirror-symmetrical manner with respect to the balancing shaft; and a horizontal back-and-forth motion, parallel to the balancing shaft, between a retracted position, in which the jaws support the wheel so that it is axially aligned with the shaft and arranged in front of its free end, and an extracted position, in which the jaws support the wheel so that it is axially aligned with the shaft and inserted thereon.