Patent ID: 7870883

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a tire cage for containing explosions of a plurality of tires during inflation or deflation comprising: providing an enclosure for receiving tires within an interior of the enclosure, said enclosure having at least one rigid member adjacent to at least a portion of the interior for placing the tires; providing an energy absorbing material having a plurality of rigid open cells, the cells having a plurality of faces, each face of the plurality of the faces defined by a plurality of rods enclosing open space of the face; and wherein the energy absorbing material is positioned between the at least one rigid member and the at least one portion of the interior for placing the tires, wherein during an explosion of one of the tires in the enclosure, a crushing of the energy absorbing material is effective for absorbing a sufficient amount of kinetic energy of debris from the one tire so that by replacing the energy absorbing material, the at least one rigid member is effective for withstanding an explosion of another of the tires within the enclosure; transporting the tire cage without dismantling the at least one rigid member from a remainder of the enclosure; and further including providing operator controls outside of the enclosure for use by an operator for at least one of inflating and deflating one or more of the tires provided in the enclosure; wherein the operator controls include a user control for raising at least one of the tires provided on a tire support in the enclosure.