Patent ID: 8161650

Claim:
A device, comprising: a single cell work station including, a plurality of sub-stations; and an apparatus for retaining a first component from a first sub-station in said plurality of sub-stations and presenting the first component to at least a second and a third sub-station in said plurality of sub-stations without releasing the first component, wherein at least one of said second or third sub-stations presents a second component to said apparatus, wherein said apparatus joins said first and second components together, wherein said first and second component include a tire or a wheel, wherein the tire includes a bead, wherein the wheel includes a bead seat, wherein the plurality of sub-stations include: a tire inflating sub-station including a flip-seal, wherein the tire-inflating sub-station is moveably-disposed relative to the wheel such that the flip-seal is movable from an un-seated orientation away from and not in contact with the bead seat of the wheel to a seated orientation adjacent to and in contact with the bead seat of the wheel and back to the un-seated orientation upon inflation of the tire joined to the wheel, wherein an inflation procedure conducted by the tire inflating sub-station causes movement of the inflation sub-station relative to the wheel such that the flip-seal is moved from the un-seated orientation, to the seated orientation and back to the un-seated orientation, wherein movement of the flip-seal from the seated orientation back to the un-seated orientation permits the bead of the tire to be seated upon the bead seat.