Patent ID: 7584775

Claim:
A tire mounter comprising: a lift table for receiving a wheel having a center hole and a tire provided thereon in a slanted orientation; a rotatable center cone aligned with the wheel center hole and movable in a vertical direction; a tire press roller for pressing against an upper bead side of the tire; a tire presser for pressing against the upper bead side of the tire; and a first bead guide plate comprising an arc-shaped plate piece having a tip end for insertion between the wheel and a bead part of the tire, said arc-shaped plate piece having a bottom surface side positioned at an upper surface side of the wheel and an outer peripheral arc-shaped part positioned at an outer peripheral surface of the wheel, wherein said first bead guide plate is moved along the bead part of the temporarily aslant tire at an unmounted side of the tire while being interlocked with a turning of the tire bead press roller, and thereby the first bead guide plate turns ahead of the tire bead press roller so that the bead part of the tire at the unmounted side of the tire slides on a surface side of the first bead guide plate to be mounted on the wheel.