Patent ID: 8757236

Claim:
A seating apparatus for seating a tire on a rim, comprising: a rigid body formed as a hollow pipe closed on both ends, said body including a plurality of holes; a pipe coupled to said body at a first side of said body and configured to introduce air into said body; two or more protrusions from said body at a second side of said body, the second side being on a different side of a cross-sectional plane of the body from the first side of the body; a handle coupled to said body, wherein the pipe forms a 45 degree angle with a plane formed by the protrusions, and the handle is positioned on said body such that, when the two or more protrusions are positioned on the rim, a user holding the handle applies downward and forward pressures to the two or more protrusions against the rim to counteract blow back from venting of the air into the tire.