Patent ID: 8215366

Claim:
A method for mounting a vehicle tire on a wheel rim, said method comprising the steps of sliding one side of the vehicle tire in a tilted condition on the wheel rim, where at least one of an upper and a lower bead on the one side of the vehicle tire is at least partly below an upper wheel flange and the upper bead and the lower bead of the other side of the vehicle tire are above the upper wheel flange, arranging a belt along a tread of the vehicle tire to tension the vehicle tire at least along part of the tread, shifting the vehicle tire by said belt in a single direction away from said one side of the vehicle tire, said direction extending radial to the wheel rim, to press and maintain the at least one of the lower and the upper bead on said one side of the vehicle tire in a drop base of the wheel rim while the vehicle tire is in a rotationally fixed position, shifting the upper bead and the lower bead of the other side of the vehicle tire in a radial direction away from the wheel rim, then vertically pressing the lower bead of the other side of the vehicle tire by a pressing down device applied on an upper surface of the vehicle tire in an essentially perpendicular movement with respect to the wheel rim to move the lower bead of the other side of the vehicle tire into the wheel rim while maintaining a position of the at least one of the lower and the upper bead on said one side of the vehicle tire in the drop base of the wheel rim, and axially pressing, by the pressing down device on the upper surface of the vehicle tire, the upper bead of the other side of the vehicle tire still positioned above the wheel flange to slide the upper bead of the other side of the vehicle tire over the wheel flange while the vehicle tire is in the rotationally fixed position and the at least one of the lower and the upper bead on the one side of the vehicle tire is maintained in the drop base of the wheel rim.