APPARATUS FOR HANDING AND MOVING A STACK OF TIRES

摘要

A rotary apparatus or machine that takes or receives a barrel stack of mounted tires in the vertical position (i.e., barrel stacked), and rotates the stack as a whole to a horizontal position, where each unit or tire is an upright position. The tires can then be rolled off individually or in multiple units to be installed on the equipment being built, or transported from the tire holding area to the assembly floor or installation area.

主权项

1. A machine, comprising:
a tire support beam with a first end and a second end; and a tire receiving floor connected to the first end of the tire support beam, wherein the tire receiving floor is substantially orthogonal to the tire support beam; further wherein the tire support beam and tire receiving floor are adapted to move a stack of two or more tires from a vertical alignment to a horizontal alignment by pivotably rotating from a loading position to an off-loading position, wherein the tire support beam is substantially vertical in the loading position, and substantially horizontal or near-horizontal in the off-loading position.