Patent ID: 6935397

Claim:
A tire assembling/disassembling machine comprising a support base frame delimiting a forehead, a back and two sides, a rigid support framework articulated at the back of said support frame according to an articulation axis, driving means for angularly lifting/lowering said rigid support framework with respect to said support frame, a self-centring assembly overhangingly carried by said rigid support framework at the forehead of said support frame, whereby its axis of rotation is substantially normal to said articulation axis, bead-releasing means carried by said rigid support framework, a pair of side bead-releasing assemblies supported by said rigid support framework and each located on the opposite side with respect to said self-centring assembly, driving means for each bead releasing assembly designed to move its respective bead-releasing assembly between a rest position and a working position in a substantially normal direction with respect to said articulation axis, and a fitting tool means overhangingly supported by one of said bead-releasing assemblies, thereby being angularly displaceable with respect thereto and to said self-centring assembly.