Patent ID: 7318363
Filing Date: 2008-01-15
Classification: B60C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for use in securing a snow chain onto the wheel of a vehicle, said snow chain including a pair of side chains ( 12 ), side by side and parallel to one another, a plurality of linking chains ( 14 ), each linking chain ( 14 ) having one end attached to one side chain ( 12 ) and another end attached to the other side chain ( 12 ) so that said snow chain ( 16 ) is a chain ladder, said apparatus comprising: a bar; a pair of cables, said one cable having one end secured to one end of said bar opposite said another cable having one end secured to an opposite end of said bar; a pair of chain hooks, one of said chain hooks secured on a free end of said one cable and another chain hook secured on a free end of said another cable; a pair of sliding hooks, said one sliding hook slideably mounted on one of said cables and said another sliding hook slideably mounted on said another one of said cables; an elastic band having one end secured to a location on said bar intermediate between ends of said bar; an anchor hook secured to another end of said elastic band enabling a user to lay said snow chain in front of said wheel, drive said vehicle onto the snow chain, drape said snow chain around and over a top of said wheel, attach each of said chain hooks to a draped end of a respective one of the side chains of the snow chain, hook said anchor hook on the elastic band to the opposite end of the snow chain providing that the ends of the snow chain are drawn together and said snow chain is drawn around the wheel, and permitting that inserting a fastener be inserted into links selected to join one end of each side chain to the opposite end of the same side chain.