Patent ID: 8919400

Claim:
An installation system for installing a traction device upon a vehicle tire(s), the system comprising: a traction device having a leading end, a trailing end, and a length between said leading end and trailing end, first and second outermost longitudinal runners and a width between said first and second outermost longitudinal runners that is transverse to said length, wherein the traction device is expandable to a fully-expanded-width and collapsible to a collapsed-width that is smaller than the fully-expanded-width, and wherein the traction device is for being wrapped around a tire to increase traction between the tire and a road or the ground; an elongated tool comprising a connector detachably connected to the leading end of the traction device and an extension extending from the connector and generally away from the traction device, wherein the extension is flexible and has a length equal to 50 percent or greater of the length of the traction device so that the extension is adapted to wrap around at least 50 percent of the tire circumference onto which the traction device is being installed; an expander extending between and connected to said first and second outermost longitudinal runners of the traction device; wherein the connector expands the leading end of the traction device to the fully-expanded-width, and the expander expands the traction device to the fully-expanded-width at the location where the expander is connected to said outermost longitudinal runners.