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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1999
Werner Preusker, Sauldorf, DE;
Confon AG, Rheineck, CH;
Abstract
For adapting a nonskid device for pneumatic-tired wheels of vehicles on ice and snow surfaces which is held at one end on the wheel of the vehicle and which shows a number of arm-type gripping element supports ( ) placed on a supporting element ( ), partially overlapping the tire tread, with gripping elements ( ) provided for at their free ends, which show on the outside spikes ( ) or chain sections connecting respectively two gripping element supports with each other or chain strings of chain nets bearing on the tire tread ( ) in the tire circonferential direction, to different tire sizes, the distance of the fixing point ( ) of each gripping element support ( ) with its gripping element ( ) on the surface ( ) of the plate-shaped or ring-shaped supporting element ( ) or of the supporting element showing another conformation or on the ring surface of the ring-shaped supporting element ( ) to the tire tread on the supporting element ( ) is variable, whereby the fixing point ( ) for each gripping element support ( ) can be fixed to the tire size after the adjustment has taken place (FIG. 5).