Patent ID: 8776345
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: B23P,B25J,B62D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A tire mounting apparatus for automatically mounting a tire onto hub bolts of a motor vehicle, comprising: a first working mechanism including tire gripping means for gripping the tire, and temporary tightening means for temporarily tightening nuts on the hub bolts on which the tire has been placed; and a separate second working mechanism including full tightening means for fully tightening the nuts that have been temporarily tightened by the first working mechanism, wherein the tire mounting apparatus feeds and positions the motor vehicle intermittently with respect to the first and second working mechanisms in a tire mounting station, so that the first working mechanisms temporarily tightens the nuts on the hub bolts on a front wheel side and on a rear wheel side of the motor vehicle successively as the motor vehicle is intermittently fed and positioned, and the second working mechanism fully tightens the temporarily tightened nuts successively on the front wheel side and on the rear wheel side successively as the motor vehicle is intermittently fed and positioned after the temporary tightening, and wherein only the first working mechanism includes the tire gripping means.